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J/ApJS/102/29       Extragalactic globular clusters  (Huchra+ 1996)
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Extragalactic globular clusters. IV. The data.
     Huchra J.P., Brodie J.P., Caldwell N., Christian C., Schommer R.
    <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 102, 29 (1996)>
    =1996ApJS..102...29H        (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Clusters, globular ; Spectrophotometry
Keywords: galaxies: stellar content ; globular clusters: general ;
          stars: abundances

Description:
    This is a collection of line indices in the Lick system (and others)
    for a collection of Galactic, M31, M33 and other globular clusters
    plus bright and dwarf galaxies observed primarily at the MMT over the
    period 1980-1992 by J. Huchra, J. Brodie, N. Caldwell, R. Schommer, C.
    Christian and G. Bothun. The paper describing this catalog of indices
    is published in Huchra, Harris & Schommer (1996, in prep).
    Table 1 lists the definition of the indices used, Table 2 lists the
    line indices and errors, Table 3 lists multiple measurements for
    individual objects (plus dispersions and means) to give the reader a
    sense of the precision and accuracy of individual measures, and Table
    4 lists index measurements from higher dispersion spectra. Each of the
    index tables generally has two lines, the first are the index values
    and the second are the statistical (calculated from photon counts)
    errors. An estimate of the external error in each index can be gotten
    from the multiple measurements given in Table 3. "AV" in Table 2
    indicates that the measurement given is the average of multiple
    individual spectra give in Table 3. Otherwise the "RFN" number refers
    to the serial number of the MMT spectrum.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table1.dat         67       24   Definitions for line indices and colors
table2.dat        175      361   Line indices and errors
table3.dat        175      228   Multiple measurements, dispersion and errors
table3b.dat       175       19   Average dispersion and errors
table4.dat        120       18   Line indices from high dispersion spectra
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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  A1    ---   n_Index     Origin of the index (1)
   5- 16  A12   ---     Index     Index name
  18- 32  A15   ---     C1        ? Bandpass defined the C1 index
  35- 49  A15   ---     I         Bandpass defined the I index
  52- 66  A15   ---     C2        Bandpass defined the C2 index
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Note (1): S: Suntzeff Indices, 1980AJ.....85..408S and 1981ApJS...47....1S
          F: Faber and Burstein Indices, 1984ApJ...287..586B
          B: Brodie and Hanes Indices, 1986ApJ...300..258B
    C1 + C2 are the continuum bandpasses on either side of I the index bandpass
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat table3.dat table3b.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  2  I2    ---     Gal      ? Parent galaxy (only in table2) (1)
   4- 11  A8    ---     Name     Object name
  14- 17  A4    ---     RFN      Identification number from the MMT spectra  (2)
  21- 25  F5.3  ---     CNB      ? CNB index
  27- 31  F5.3  ---   e_CNB      ? rms uncertainty on CNB index
  33- 37  F5.3  ---     CAs      ? CAs index
  39- 43  F5.3  ---   e_CAs      ? rms uncertainty on CAs index
  45- 49  F5.3  ---     H+K      ? H+K index
  51- 55  F5.3  ---   e_H+K      ? rms uncertainty on H+K index
  57- 61  F5.3  ---     Delta    ? Delta index
  63- 67  F5.3  ---   e_Delta    ? rms uncertainty on Delta index
  69- 73  F5.3  ---     CNR      ? CNR index
  75- 79  F5.3  ---   e_CNR      ? rms uncertainty on CNR index
  81- 85  F5.3  ---     CH       ? CH index
  87- 91  F5.3  ---   e_CH       ? rms uncertainty on CH index
  93- 97  F5.3  ---     Hbeta    ? Hbeta index
  99-103  F5.3  ---   e_Hbeta    ? rms uncertainty on Hbeta index
 105-109  F5.3  ---     MgH      ? MgH index
 111-115  F5.3  ---   e_MgH      ? rms uncertainty on MgH index
 117-121  F5.3  ---     Mg2      ? Mg2 index
 123-127  F5.3  ---   e_Mg2      ? rms uncertainty on Mg2 index
 129-133  F5.3  ---     Mgb      ? Mgb index
 135-139  F5.3  ---   e_Mgb      ? rms uncertainty on Mgb index
 141-145  F5.3  ---     MgG      ? MgG index
 147-151  F5.3  ---   e_MgG      ? rms uncertainty on MgG index
 153-157  F5.3  ---     Fe5270   ? Fe5270 index
 159-163  F5.3  ---   e_Fe5270   ? rms uncertainty on Fe5270 index (3)
 165-169  F5.3  ---     NaI      ? NaI index
 171-175  F5.3  ---   e_NaI      ? rms uncertainty on NaI index
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Note (1): 1: Andromeda Globular Cluster. Nomenclature for the Andromeda
              clusters follows Huchra et al., (1982ApJ...259L..57H), with the
              Battistini et al., (1980A&AS...42..357B), number first followed
              by the Sargent et al., (1977AJ.....82..947S), number.
          2: M81 Globular Clusters
          3: Fornax Dwarf Galaxy Globular Clusters
          4: M33 Globular Cluster Candidates
          5: M87 Globular Clusters
          6: Virgo Dwarf Galaxies
          7: Fornax Cluster Dwarf Galaxies
          8: Other Dwarf Galaxies
          9: Bright Galaxies. Several of the M31 cluster candidates have been
              classified as foreground stars (see Huchra et al.,
              (1991ApJ...370..495H) for a discussion and complete
              identifications).
              Theses stars can be found in the "Other Stars" (13) section.
         10: Peculiar Galaxies
         11: Comparison Stars
         12: Cluster System Averages. N188 AV is the weighted average of the
              individual NGC 188 stars.
         13:  Other Stars
    Individual notes:
      Dwarf galaxy identifications: Virgo dwarfs from Binggeli et al.,
       (1985AJ.....90.1681B), and Caldwell, (1983AJ.....88..804C), as follows.
       N4472DW3 = VCC 1311 ; N4472DW10 = VCC 1435 ; N4472DW8 = VCC 1254 ;
       N4472DW1 = VCC 1107 ; M87DW6 = VCC 1407 ; N4472DW6 = VCC 1049 ;
       1240+10 = VCC 1936? ; M87DW8 = VCC 1389 ; M87DW7 = VCC 1185 ;
       1157+14 = dwarf near Virgo at 11h56m59.9s +14deg10'01".
      Identifications for individual stars are as follows.
       M2 stars = M2-68, M2-45
       M3 stars = 3I-87, 3III-77, 3IV-25, 3III-28, 3-AV
       M5 stars = 5IV-86, 5III-3, 5IV-19, 5II-51, 5IV-59
       M71 stars = A7, A6
       NGC188 stars = II-51, II-76, II-88, I-57, I-1, II-72
       M92 stars = VII-18, XI-19, XII-34, III-13, 92II-70, IV 114, IX-12, XII-18
       M13 stars = 13-171, 13-786, 13-818, II-76, II-67
       M15 stars = II-30, II-64, II-75
       Draco stars = D-536, D-49, D-24,D-490, D-119, D-581, D-343, D361, D-45
      Identification for "Other" stars are as follows.
       M87 GC candidates = III-151, I-84, III-239, 87-1535, III-200, 87-950,
         87-874, 87-93, III-196, II-189 and II-93
       M31 GC candidates = 000-000, 000-003, 000-13, 000-017, 000-320, GS-1
       N147A = superposed bright star on NGC 147
       AC211 = UV bright X-ray source candidate in M15
       M49 GC candidates = C205, C153 and C279
       Stars are grouped by parent star cluster or dwarf galaxy.
Note (2): RFN = reduced file number, except in table2, where AV indicates that
           entry is the signal-to-noise ratio
Note (3): In table2, line 193 (5   II-105  3049),
          e_Fe5270=-.157 in the printed table
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  7  A7    ---     Name     Object name
  10- 13  I4    ---     RFN      Identification number from the MMT spectra
  15- 19  F5.3  ---     CNR      ? CNR index
  21- 25  F5.3  ---   e_CNR      ? rms uncertainty on CNR
  27- 31  F5.3  ---     Hbeta    ? Hbeta index
  33- 37  F5.3  ---   e_Hbeta    ? rms uncertainty on Hbeta
  39- 43  F5.3  ---     CH       ? CH index
  45- 49  F5.3  ---   e_CH       ? rms uncertainty on CH
  51- 55  F5.3  ---     Mgb      ? Mgb index
  57- 61  F5.3  ---   e_Mgb      ? rms uncertainty on Mgb
  63- 67  F5.3  ---     CNB      ? CNB index
  69- 73  F5.3  ---   e_CNB      ? rms uncertainty on CNB
  75- 79  F5.3  ---     HK      ? HK index
  81- 85  F5.3  ---   e_HK       ? rms uncertainty on HK
  87- 91  F5.3  ---     DELTA    ? DELTA index
  93- 97  F5.3  ---   e_DELTA    ? rms uncertainty on DELTA
  99-103  F5.3  ---     MgG      ? MgG index
 105-109  F5.3  ---   e_MgG      ? rms uncertainty on MgG
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Acknowledgements: J. Huchra, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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(End)                                          Patricia Bauer [CDS]  06-Mar-1997

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