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J/AJ/105/1571      USNO Photographic Parallaxes IX            (Harrington+ 1993)
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U. S. Naval Observatory photographic parallaxes. List IX
      Harrington R.S., Dahn C.C., Kallarakal V.V., Guetter H.H., Riepe B.Y.,
      Walker R.L., Pier J.R., Vrba F.J., Luginbuhl C.B., Harris H.C., Ables H.D.
     <Astron. J. 105, 1571 (1993)>
     =1993AJ....105.1571H
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ADC_Keywords: Parallaxes, trigonometric; Proper motions; Photometry, UBV

Abstract:
    Trigonometric parallaxes, relative proper motions, and photometry are
    presented for 122 stars in 111 systems. Of these stars, 70 are
    brighter than V = 10.0.


File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table1.dat     167        122    Astrometric and photometric results
table2.dat     129        122    References star positions and parallax star
                                  aliases
notes1.dat      80        137    Notes to table1
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  4  I4     ---     No       [787/908] USNO running number
   7- 17  A11    ---     Name     Star name
  19- 20  I2     h       RAh      Right ascension J2000
  22- 23  I2     min     RAm      Right ascension J2000
  25- 26  I2     s       RAs      Right ascension J2000
      28  A1     ---     DE-      [NS] Declination sign
                                        ('N' for north, 'S' for south)
  29- 30  I2     deg     DEd      Declination J2000
  31- 35  F5.1   arcmin  DEm      Declination J2000
  38- 39  A2     ---     CD       Emulsion/filter code
                                  (CD; see end of notes1.dat;
                                   blank means see notes for details)
  40- 43  I4     ---     Plates   Number of plates
  46- 54  A9     ---     DeltaT   Time interval
  55- 62  F8.4   arcsec  plx      Relative parallax
  63- 68  F6.4   arcsec  e_plx    Standard error in relative parallax
  69- 76  F8.4 arcsec/yr pm       Magnitude of proper motion (J2000)
  77- 82  F6.4 arcsec/yr e_pm     Standard error in proper motion magnitude
  85- 89  F5.1   deg     pa       Direction of proper motion (J2000)
  90- 93  F4.1   deg     e_pa     Standard error in proper motion direction
  94-101  F8.4   arcsec  plxAbs   Estimated absolute parallax
 102-107  F6.4   arcsec  e_plxAbs Standard error in estimated absolute parallax
 109-114  F6.2   mag     V        V magnitude
 115-118  F4.2   mag     e_V     []? Standard error in V, bright (V < 10) star
                                    photometric errors are all less than 0.01,
                                    unless indicated in the notes, and are not
                                    given in the table.
 119-124  F6.2   mag     B-V      B-V color
 125-128  F4.2   mag     e_B-V    []? Standard error in B-V
 129-134  F6.2   mag     U-B      []? U-B color
 135-138  F4.2   mag     e_U-B    []? Standard error in U-B
 141-144  A4     ---     O_UBV    Number of photometric observations and the
                                   number of U-B observations if different.
                                   An "#" means the quoted value is taken from
                                   the literature, and is indicated in the
                                   notes. Blank means see the notes.
 145-150  F6.2   mag     M        []? Absolute visual magnitude
 151-154  F4.2   mag     e_M      []? Standard error in absolute visual
                                       magnitude
 155-161  F7.1   km/s    Vel      []? Tangential velocity
 162-167  F6.1   km/s    e_Vel    []? Standard error in tangential velocity
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  3  I3     ---     NO       USNO running number
   6- 16  A11    ---     Star     Star name
  18-130  A113   ---     Ref.     Reference star positions, measured in
                                  arcseconds eastward and northward from the
                                  target star, and some alternative designations
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Origin: AAS CD-ROM series, Volume 1, 1993
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   21-Jun-1994

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