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J/ApJS/123/377   u*g*r*i*z* Photometry of stars, galaxies, QSOs  (Newberg+ 1999)
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Catalog of four-color photometry of stars, galaxies, and QSOs using SDSS filters
        Newberg H.J., Richards G.T., Richmond M., Fan X.
       <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 123, 377 (1999)>
       =1999ApJS..123..377N
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ADC_Keywords: Photometry, ugriz ; Galaxies, photometry ; QSOs
Keywords: catalogs - galaxies: photometry - quasars: general -
          stars: fundamental parameters - techniques: photometric

Description:
    The catalog (table 5 of the paper) contains the measurements of 2262
    sources, including 334 extended sources, 1915 point sources, and 13
    known QSOs, in five passbands close to the u'g'r'i'z' passbands of
    SDSS (see the definition of the photometric system in Richards et al.,
    1997PASP..109...39R). Of these objects, over 1600 are measured in 15
    fields covering 0.5deg^2^, with a limiting magnitude of r*<19.5,
    similar to the photometric limit of the SDSS spectroscopic survey.

File Summary:
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 FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe            80        .   This file
table5.dat       136     2261   Catalog of u* g* r* i* z* photometry
                                 (Richards et al., 1997PASP..109...39R)
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Table 3: Standard stars
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  Name    Nobs      u*           g*           r*           i*           z*
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 SA 92-342  3 12.920 0.011 11.817 0.012 11.546 0.006 11.518 0.009 11.528 0.010
 SA 94-242 10 12.981 0.028 11.777 0.014 11.651 0.018 11.682 0.020 11.732 0.013
 SA 94-251 10 14.521 0.031 11.739 0.013 10.742 0.014 10.367 0.013 10.163 0.017
 Hilt 404   2 12.564 0.004 11.513 0.005 10.829 0.010 10.506 0.026 10.252 0.006
 SA 95-149  4 14.914 0.042 11.653 0.016 10.311 0.029  9.687 0.013  9.301 0.023
 SA 98-685  3 13.335 0.009 12.087 0.030 11.786 0.011 11.728 0.008 11.696 0.005
 RU 149D    5 12.050 0.040 11.391 0.040 11.574 0.033 11.801 0.037 11.921 0.038
 RU 149G    5 14.332 0.016 13.133 0.033 12.750 0.030 12.663 0.019 12.640 0.012
 Feige 34   3 10.421 0.046 10.960 0.020 11.443 0.036 11.797 0.050 12.044 0.038
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1- 15  A15   ---     Field     Field name
  17- 20  A4    ---     ---       [NRRF] (Newberg+Richards+Richmond+Fan)
  22- 37  A16   ---     NRRF      Designation (Newberg+Richards+Richmond+Fan)
  39- 40  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (2000.0)
  42- 43  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (2000.0)
  45- 49  F5.2  s       RAs       Right ascension (2000.0)
      51  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (2000.0)
  52- 53  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (2000.0)
  55- 56  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (2000.0)
  58- 59  I2    arcsec  DEs       Declination (2000.0)
  62- 67  F6.3  mag     r*mag     ? r* magnitude
  69- 73  F5.3  mag   e_r*mag     ? rms uncertainty on r*mag
  75- 80  F6.3  mag     u*-g*     ? u*-g* colour index
  83- 87  F5.3  mag   e_u*-g*     ? rms uncertainty on u*-g*
  89- 94  F6.3  mag     g*-r*     ? g*-r* colour index
  98-102  F5.3  mag   e_g*-r*     ? rms uncertainty on g*-r*
 104-109  F6.3  mag     r*-i*     ? r*-i* colour index
 112-116  F5.3  mag   e_r*-i*     ? rms uncertainty on r*-i*
 118-123  F6.3  mag     i*-z*     ? i*-z* colour index
 126-130  F5.3  mag   e_i*-z*     ? rms uncertainty on i*-z*
 132-133  A2    ---     Type      [sgq ] Type of source (1)
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Note (1): the following symbols are used:
 s or ss: point source
       g: extended source
       q: known QSOs
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Table 6: QSO magnitudes
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 QSO                 z     Nobs    r*    u*-g*  g*-r*  r*-i*  i*-z*
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 [HB89] 0836+710    2.172    1   16.772  0.269  0.156  0.088  0.190
 [HB89] 0933+733    2.528    1   17.188  0.834  0.118  0.187  0.302
 [HB89] 0953+549    2.579    1   17.414  0.617  0.092 -0.002  0.202
 UM 673             2.719    1   16.521  0.596  0.181 -0.006 -0.006
 [HB89] 0308+190    2.756    1   18.165  1.034  0.135  0.061  0.254
 [HB89] 0207-003    2.853    1   17.107  0.956  0.168  0.130  0.091
 [HB89] 0201+365    2.912    1   17.975  1.340  0.387  0.175  0.051
 [HB89] 0216+080    2.996    2   18.084  1.572  0.256 -0.032  0.184
 LBQS 2231-0015     3.020    4   17.350  1.484  0.312  0.104  0.114
 [HB89] 0731+653    3.038    1   18.120  1.953  0.170  0.033  0.056
 [HB89] 0636+680    3.178    1   16.533  2.059  0.388  0.239  0.165
 LBQS 0256-0000     3.374    1   17.626  3.026  0.357 -0.037 -0.067
 [HB89] 0642+449    3.408    3   18.624 >2.500  0.446  0.124  0.124
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Note: The magnitudes for LBQS 2231-0015, [HB89] 0216+080, and [HB89] 0642+449
      are the averages of 4, 2, and 3 separate measurements, respectively.
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History: From ApJS electronic version
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(End)                           James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS]  20-Jan-2000

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