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J/AJ/103/1205       Stellar Content of LH 9 and 10 in the LMC     (Parker+ 1992)
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The Stellar Content of LH 9 and 10 (N 11) in the LMC:  A Case for Sequential
Star Formation
       Parker J.WM., Garmany C.D., Massey P., Walborn N.R.
      <Astron. J. 103, 1205 (1992)>
      =1992AJ....103.1205P      (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
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ADC_Keywords: Magellanic Clouds; Associations, stellar; Photometry, CCD; 
              Photometry, UBV; Spectroscopy; Spectral types

Description:
    We present CCD photometry and spectroscopy for stars in Lucke-Hodge 9
    and 10, two adjacent OB association in the northwest corner of the
    LMC. Our catalog contains UBV photometry (complete to ~18mag in all
    three filters) for 795 stars and BV-only photometry (complete to
    ~19mag in both filters) for an additional 434 stars.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
ubv.dat            97     1229   UBV data from Tables 3-6 in the paper
stars.dat         133      795   All stars with UBV photometry with their
                                 bolometric magnitudes and  effective
                                 temperatures which were not listed in the
                                 original tables (tables 10 to 12).
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: ubv.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   2-  5  A4     ---     Star     Star number (1)
       9  I1     h       RAh      Right ascension (2000)
  11- 12  I2     min     RAm      Right ascension (2000)
  14- 18  F5.2   s       RAs      Right ascension (2000)
      21  A1     ---     DE-      Declination sign
  22- 23  I2     deg     DEd      Declination (2000)
  25- 26  I2     arcmin  DEm      Declination (2000)
  28- 31  F4.1   arcsec  DEs      Declination (2000)
  36- 41  F6.2   pix     Xpos     X position (2)
  44- 49  F6.2   pix     Ypos     Y position (2)
  52- 57  F6.3   mag     Vmag     V magnitude
  60- 65  F6.3   mag     B-V      B-V colour index
  68- 73  F6.3   mag     U-B      ?=99.000 U-B colour index (3)
  77- 81  F5.3   mag   e_Vmag     Error on V magnitude
  85- 89  F5.3   mag   e_B-V      Error on B-V colour
  93- 97  F5.3   mag   e_U-B      ?=9.000 Error on U-B colour (3)
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Note (1): Stars with numbers <3000 are in LH 9, and numbers >3000 are in LH 10.
          Star numbers 1001 through 1522 are from Table 3.
          Star numbers 2001 through 2345 are from Table 4.
          Star numbers 3001 through 3273 are from Table 5.
          Star numbers 4001 through 4089 are from Table 6.
Note (2): Since the CCD frames for these fields (LH 9 and 10) are not
          contiguous, the X and Y coordinates refer to different coordinate
          systems for LH 9 and LH10; for orientation of the coordinate systems
          see the CCD finder charts in the article.  Pixel sizes
          (in X and Y columns) are approximately 0.49 arcsec/pixel.
Note (3): Stars without U photometry are flagged by  U-B = 99.000  and
          U-B err = 9.000.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: stars.dat 
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   2-  5  A4     ---     Star     Star number (1)
       9  I1     h       RAh      Right ascension (2000)
  11- 12  I2     min     RAm      Right ascension (2000)
  14- 18  F5.2   s       RAs      Right ascension (2000)
      21  A1     ---     DE-      Declination sign
  22- 23  I2     deg     DEd      Declination (2000)
  25- 26  I2     arcmin  DEm      Declination (2000)
  28- 31  F4.1   arcsec  DEs      Declination (2000)
  36- 40  F5.1   pix     Xpos     X position (2)
  43- 47  F5.1   pix     Ypos     Y position (2)
  50- 54  F5.2   mag     Vmag     V magnitude
  57- 61  F5.2   mag     B-V      B-V colour index
  64- 68  F5.2   mag     U-B      U-B colour index
  71- 75  F5.2   mag     Q        (U-B)-0.72(B-V)
  79- 82  F4.2   mag     E(B-V)   Color excess calculated from Q or spectral
                                  type or mean reddening as discussed in
                                  Section 3.1 of the article.
  84- 89  F6.2   mag     Mv       Absolute V magnitude=V-Rv*E(B-V)-DM  where
                                  Rv=3.1, and the distance modulus DM=18.3 mag
  93- 96  F4.2  [K]     log(Teff) log10 of the effective temperature: is
                                  calculated from Q or (B-V)0 as discussed in
                                  Section 3.2 of the article.
  98-103  F6.2   mag     Mbol     Bolometric magnitude=Mv+BC, where BC is
                                  calculated from Teff as discussed in
                                  Section 3.2 of the article.
 106-118  A13    ---     Sp       Spectral type and luminosity class as
                                  determined from spectroscopic observations (3)
 120-132  A13    ---     Comments Comments (4)
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Note (1): Stars numbers 1001 through 1522 are located in LH 9 (Table
          10), and 3001 through 3273 in LH 10 (Table 11).
          In the journal article, Tables 10 and 11 listed the Bluest (Q<-0.7)
          and Brightest (V<16) Stars in LH 9 and 10, and Table 12 listed other
          stars with known spectral types. The table here contains ALL stars
          with UBV photometry (e.g., all stars that are listed in Tables 3 and
          5), and includes their bolometric magnitudes and  effective
          temperatures which were not listed in the original tables.
Note (2): Since these fields are not contiguous, the X,Y coordinates refer to
          different coordinate systems: they are from the CCD finder charts in
          the article. Pixel sizes are approximately 0.49 arcsec/pixel.
Note (3): One colon ":" indicates an uncertainty of one spectral subtype or
          luminosity class, and two colons "::" indicate a larger  uncertainty.
Note (4): Comments in square brackets, [], are indicated by the following codes
          (note that these codes are somewhat different than those that appear
          in the original paper):
          [a]: strong Balmer lines
          [b]: possible composite / blend; spectrum contaminated by nearby
           star (in some cases the number of the other star is given in
          parentheses)
          [c]: cosmic ray hits / bad pixels
          [d]: weak Balmer lines
          [e]: strong nebular emission in the Balmer lines
          [g]: weak N lines
          [p]: Star 3264 is a ZAMS star with extremely strong nebular emission
           lines and is located in the compact HII knot N 11A (see text)
          [z]: ZAMS O star
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Courtesy: Joel Wm. Parker <joel.parker@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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(End)                                            Simona Mei [CDS]   04-Apr-1995

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