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J/ApJ/416/787  The Mount Wilson Observatory Metallicity index, Crv: (SOON 1993)
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The Mount Wilson Observatory Metallicity index, Crv: comparison  with
other photometric systems
     Soon W.H., Zhang Q., Baliunas S.L., Kurucz R.L.
     <Astrophys. J. 416, 787 (1993)>
     =1993ApJ...416..787S       
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, giant; Stars, supergiant; Photometry;  Abundances, [Fe/H]
Keywords: stars: abundances - stars: late-type - techniques: spectroscopic



File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table1         118        236    Data for dwarfs
table2         117        141    Data for giants
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  6  I6     ---     HD       []? HD designation
       7  A1     ---   m_HD       Multiplicity index on HD designation
       8  A1     ---   n_HD       [*] Note for HD 36389 (1)
  10- 19  A10    ---     Name     Other name
  22- 27  F6.3   mag    <Crv>     []? Time averaged spectrophotometric index
                                       Crv = 2.5 log (N_R/N_V) (2)
  29- 32  I4     ---   o_<Crv>    []? Number of observed points
  34- 38  F5.3   mag   e_<Crv>    []? Standard deviation of observed points
  40- 44  F5.3   mag     b-y      Observed b-y index
  46- 51  F6.3   mag     m1       Observed m1 index
  53- 57  F5.3   mag     c1       []? Observed c1 index
  59- 62  F4.2   mag     V-K      []? Observed V-K index
  64- 67  F4.2   ---   THETAeff   []? Observed stellar effective temperature
                                       (THETAeff= 5040/Teff, Teff in K)
  69- 71  F3.1 [cm/s2]   log(g)   []? Observed surface gravity
  74- 78  F5.2   ---     [Fe/H]1  []? Scaled iron abundance
      79  A1     ---   n_[Fe/H]   ',' indicates a metallicity interval
  80- 84  F5.2   ---     [Fe/H]2  []? Highest value of metallicity when
                                         n_[Fe/H] = ,
  92- 95  F4.1   mag     Dm       []? magnitude difference of the two components
                                       for double stars
 102-106  F5.1   arcsec  Sep      []? Maximum observed separation for
                                        double stars
 108-127  A20    ---     Period   Orbital period for double stars
                                   The symbols SBa and SB identify the primary
                                    star associated with a known or suspected
                                    spectroscopic binary system.
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Note (1): Note that the reddest giant on the list HD 36389 had b-y = 1.440 
          and is not plotted in all the (b-y)-dependent plots.
Note (2): N_R and N_V are the counts in the two wider windows (20A) labeled as
          R_4001 and V_3901, centered at 4001 and 3901 A respectively.

Courtesy: Willie Soon <wsoon@cfassp34.harvard.edu>
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(End)                                       Patricia Bauer   [CDS]   11-Jul-1994

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