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J/ApJ/488/224       4.85 GHz fluxes of H II regions (Kuchar+ 1997)
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All-Sky 4.85 GHz flux measurements of H II regions
     Kuchar T.A., Clark F.O.
    <Astrophys. J. 488, 224 (1997)>
    =1997ApJ...488..224K
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ADC_Keywords: H II regions ; Radio sources ; Surveys
Keywords: catalogs - H II regions - radio continuum: ISM - surveys

Abstract:
    We present an all-sky flux catalog of 760 H II regions with angular
    sizes ranging up to 10' at 4.85GHz. The data were compiled in a
    self-consistent manner from existing images of the Green Bank and
    Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85GHz radio continuum surveys. Nearly 35% of these
    H II regions have fluxes measured from these surveys for the first
    time. We compared our results to the previously published source
    catalogs which fit the same data. The new flux measurements agree
    within 5%-7% of these values and fall well within the formal errors.
    The diameters fall within 16% of the previously published fits to the
    same data, within the formal uncertainties of these values.

File Summary:
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 FileName     Lrecl     Records     Explanations
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ReadMe           80           .     This file
table3.dat       80         267     87GB (Cat. <VIII/14>) source list
table4.dat       80         513     PMN (Cat. <VIII/38>) source list
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See also:
   VIII/38 : The Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85GHz (PMN) Surveys (Griffith+ 1993-1996)
   VIII/14 : 87GB Catalog of radio sources (Gregory et al., 1991)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat table4.dat
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   Bytes  Format Units    Label   Explanations
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   1- 11  A11    ---      Name    Source name in format Glll.l+/-bb.b
  13- 19  F7.3   deg      GLON    Galactic longitude
  21- 27  F7.3   deg      GLAT    Galactic latitude
  29- 34  F6.1   km/s     VLSR    ? LSR Velocity (if known)
  36- 37  I2     h        RAh     Right Ascension (1950)
  39- 40  I2     min      RAm     Right Ascension (1950)
  42- 45  F4.1   s        RAs     Right Ascension (1950)
      47  A1     ---      DE-     Declination sign (1950)
  48- 49  I2     deg      DEd     Declination (1950)
  51- 52  I2     arcmin   DEm     Declination (1950)
  54- 55  I2     arcsec   DEs     Declination (1950)
  57- 62  I6     mJy      Flux    4.85 GHz peak flux density (mJy/beam)
  64- 67  F4.1   arcmin   Diam    FWHM of source (convolved w/telescope beam)
  69- 75  A7     ---      Refs   *HII Region Survey References
  77- 80  A4     ---      Notes  *Source Comments
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Note on Refs:
           1 - Lockman, 1989ApJS...71..469L
           2 - Reifenstein et al., 1970A&A.....4..357R
           3 - Downes et al., 1980A&AS...40..379D
           4 - Fich & Blitz, 1984ApJ...279..125F
           5 - Wilson et al., 1970A&A.....6..364W
           6 - Caswell & Haynes, 1987A&A...171..261C
Note on Notes:
               A = Additional recombination line at this position
               T = Saturation of the telescope analog-to-digital converters
               M = Multiple measurement of source
               C = Complex field
               S = Stronger source nearby
               X = very strong (>10Jy) source nearby
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Origin: AAS CD-ROM series, Volume 9, 1997        Lee E. Brotzman [ADS] 29-Jul-97
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