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J/ApJS/56/403        X-ray survey of clusters of galaxies. IV. (Kowalski+, 1984)
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An X-ray survey of clusters of galaxies. IV. A survey of southern clusters and
a compilation of upper limits for both Abell and Southern clusters.
      KOWALSKI M.P., ULMER M.P., CRUDDACE R.G., WOOD K.S.
      <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 56, 403 (1984)>
      =1984ApJS...56..403K   (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
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Keywords: galaxies: clustering - luminosity function - X-rays: sources

Description:
   The HEAO 1 A-1 X-ray survey of clusters of galaxies has been completed.
   We present X-ray error boxes and intensities or explicit upper limits
   for all clusters in the Abell catalog, and for the catalog of southern
   clusters and groups by Duus and Newell. The total of more than 3600
   clusters surveyed makes this the most comprehensive survey of cluster
   X-ray emission to date. We have determined a subset of the southern sky
   catalog which is suitable for statistical studies and which may be
   combined with the Abell catalog.


File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table1            193      128   Abell cluster X-ray sources
table2            189       74   Southern cluster X-ray sources
table3            131     2712   Abell cluster survey
table4            117      951   Southern cluster survey
table5a           100       26   L type confused regions for Abell clusters
table5b           100       60   O type confused regions for Abell clusters
table5c            20       29  *UWC confused regions for Abell clusters
table6a           100       14   L type confused regions for southern clusters
table6b           100       35   O type confused regions for southern clusters
table6c            21       26  *UWC type confused regions for southern clusters
refs              153      121   References
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Note on table5c and table6c: These clusters do not have error box. They
 represent the lowest luminosity upper limits

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
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   Bytes Format   Units    Label    Explanations
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   1-  5  A5        ---      Name   Cluster name (Abell 1958)
       6  A1        ---    n_Name   [#] A "#" indicates new HEAO A-1 source
       7  A1        ---    n_Name   [*] Asterisk indicates cluster is not in
                                         Abell's statistical sample.
   9- 14  F6.2      deg      RAdeg  Right ascension 1950 of optical center
  16- 21  F6.2      deg      DEdeg  Declination 1950 of optical center
  23- 28  F6.2      deg      RAdeg2 Right ascension 1950 of X-ray
                                     error box center
  30- 35  F6.2      deg      DEdeg2 Declination 1950 of X-ray error box center
  37- 42  F6.2      deg      RA1    90% confidence X-ray error box 1st corner RA
  44- 49  F6.2      deg      DE1    90% confidence X-ray error box 1st corner DE
  51- 56  F6.2      deg      RA2    90% confidence X-ray error box 2nd corner RA
  58- 63  F6.2      deg      DE2    90% confidence X-ray error box 2nd corner DE
  65- 70  F6.2      deg      RA3    90% confidence X-ray error box 3d corner RA
  72- 77  F6.2      deg      DE3    90% confidence X-ray error box 3d corner DE
  79- 84  F6.2      deg      RA4    90% confidence X-ray error box 4th corner RA
  86- 91  F6.2      deg      DE4    90% confidence X-ray error box 4th corner DE
  93- 96  F4.2      deg2     Area   Area of error box
      99  I1        ---      D      Distance class (Abell 1958)
     102  I1        ---      R      Richness class (Abell 1958)
 105-110  A6        ---      B-M    Bautz-Morgan class from LV, unless noted.
     111  A1        ---    u_B-M    A colon means uncertain classification
 112-115  A4        ---      R-S    Revised Rood-Sastry class (1)
 117-122  A6        ---      R-S2   Alternate classification under primary
                                     classification
 124-129  F6.4      ---      z      Redshift
 131-136  F6.4      ---    e_z      []? rms uncertainty on z. If no value is
                                         given, redshift error is assumed to be
                                         0.0210 (Kowalski 1982)
     138  I1        ---    r_z      [1-8] Redshift reference (2)
 141-146  F6.2 10-3ct/cm2/s  FX     Flux in 10-3 A-1 counts cm-2 s-1. Data were
                                     summed in 1-day intervals (Kowalski 1982)
 149-152  F4.2 10-3ct/cm2/s e_FX    rms uncertainty on FX
 155-159  F5.2     10-7W   log(LX)  Log of the X-ray luminosity (2-6 keV).
                                     (Ho=75km/s/Mpc)
 162-190  A29       ---     Other   Other objects which could have been
                                     identified with this error box.
 192-193  I2        ---     Notes   [1-19]? Individual notes (3)
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Note (1): D<5: Revised Rood-Sastry class from Struble and Rood 1982
          D=5: Revised Rood-Sastry class from Struble and Rood 1983
          D=6: Revised Rood-Sastry class from Struble 1982
Note (2): (1) Abell 1958.
          (2) Corwin 1974.
          (3) Hoessel, Gunn, and Thuan 1980.
          (4) KUC.
          (5) LV.
          (6) Noonan 1981.
          (7) de Vaucouleurs 1961.
          (8) Hintzen, Scott, and McKee 1981.
Note (3): Individual notes:
         (1) Distance, richness, and B-M classes from Sandage, Kristian, and
               Westphal 1976. Optical position is average of both spiral and
               elliptical components from de Vaucouleurs 1961.
         (2) Arp peculiar galaxy 102 is nearby (Biermann et al. 1981).
               Comparison shows that A2252 is the dominant source.
         (3) Error box contains globular cluster NGC 7089, but NGC 7089 is not
               the X-ray source (Grindlay 1980).
         (4) B-M class from Corwin 1974.
         (5) B-M classification discrepancy with Corwin 1974.
               LV classification adopted.
         (6) B-M class from Sandage, Kristian, and Westphal 1976.
         (7) Flux is not 3.5, but cluster is kept as an identified source.
               Paper I gave this identification to A2159, and Paper III gave
               it to A2152. Here we have assigned A2151 to the source according
               to our identification criteria (see text; Giovanelli 1983).
         (8) The error box is too far from the cluster for our association
               criteria, but HEAO-2 analysis shows that there is a source at
               the position of A2177.
         (9) Flux is not 3.5, but cluster is kept as an identified source.
        (10) Error box contains both A396 and AWM 7 (Schwartz et al. 1980).
               Comparison shows that A396 is the dominant source.
        (11) MKW 3 observed to have extended emission (Kriss et al. 1980).
               Comparison shows that A2063 is the dominant source.
        (12) HEAO-2 detected QSO 1028+313 at 5.5 X 10-12 ergs cm-2 s-1
               (Zamorani et al. 1981), therefore half of the flux is from A1045.
        (13) Possible contamination with NGC 3227 (Marshall et al. 1980).
               Our HEAO-2 result shows that A992 is the dominant source.
               Monitor proportional counter data confirm this (Halpern 1980).
        (14) There is some source contamination with NGC 5548 (Piccinotti et
               al. 1982), but A-1 able to resolve cluster component.
        (15) X-ray source 3C 390.3 is nearby (Marshall et al. 1979), but is not
               the source.
        (16) X-ray source Mrk 501 is nearby (Piccinotti et al. 1982). Error box
               slightly outside cluster, but kept as the identification.
        (17) Error box slightly outside cluster, but kept as the identification
        (18) Revised Rood-Sastry class is "L10a".
        (19) Bimodal redshift distribution (Noonan 1981); redshift for A2319A
               chosen for cluster. Also, B-M classification discrepancy with
               Corwin 1974.  LV classification adopted.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format     Units    Label  Explanations
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   1-  9  A9        ---      Name   Cluster name (DN)
      10  A1        ---    n_Name   [#] A "#" indicates new HEAO A-1 source
      11  A1        ---    n_Name   [*] Asterisk indicates cluster is not in
                                         Abell's statistical sample.
  13- 18  F6.2      deg      RAdeg  Right ascension 1950 of optical center (DN)
  20- 25  F6.2      deg      DEdeg  Declination 1950 of optical center (DN)
  27- 32  F6.2      deg      RAdeg2 Right ascension 1950 of X-ray
                                     error box center
  34- 39  F6.2      deg      DEdeg2 Declination 1950 of X-ray error box center
  41- 46  F6.2      deg      RA1    90% confidence X-ray error box 1st corner RA
  48- 53  F6.2      deg      DE1    90% confidence X-ray error box 1st corner DE
  55- 60  F6.2      deg      RA2    90% confidence X-ray error box 2nd corner RA
  62- 67  F6.2      deg      DE2    90% confidence X-ray error box 2nd corner DE
  69- 74  F6.2      deg      RA3    90% confidence X-ray error box 3d corner RA
  76- 81  F6.2      deg      DE3    90% confidence X-ray error box 3d corner DE
  83- 88  F6.2      deg      RA4    90% confidence X-ray error box 4th corner RA
  90- 95  F6.2      deg      DE4    90% confidence X-ray error box 4th corner DE
  97-100  F4.2      deg2     Area   Area of error box
     103  A1        ---      D      Distance class (DN)
     106  A1        ---      T      [OMC] Concentration class (DN)
 109-114  A6        ---      B-M    Bautz-Morgan class from White 1980
     115  A1        ---    u_B-M    A colon means uncertain classification
     117  A1        ---      R-S    R-S classification (Lugger 1978)
 119-121  I3        ---      N      []? Number of galaxies in the cluster
                                         uncorrected for field (DN)
     122  A1        ---    u_N      Uncertainty flag on N
 123-128  F6.4      ---      z      []? Redshift
 130-135  F6.4      ---    e_z      []? rms uncertainty on z. If no value is
                                         given, redshift error is assumed to be
                                         0.0210 (Kowalski 1982)
     137  I1        ---     r_z     [1-9]? Redshift reference (1)
 140-145  F6.2 10-3ct/cm2/s   FX    Flux in 10-3 A-1 counts cm-2 s-1. Data were
                                     summed in  1-day intervals (Kowalski 1982)
 148-151  F4.2 10-3ct/cm2/s e_FX     rms uncertainty on FX
 154-158  F5.2    10-7W    log(LX)  []? Log of the X-ray luminosity (2-6 keV).
                                       (Ho=75km/s/Mpc)
 161-183  A23       ---     Other   Other objects which could have been
                                     identified with this  error box.
 188-189  I2        ---     Notes   [1-30]? Individual notes (2)
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Note (1): (1) DN: Duus and Newell 1977
          (2) Chincarini, Tarenghi, and Bettis 1981.
          (3) Noonan 1981.
          (4) Yahil and Vidal 1977.
          (5) Sandage 1975a.
          (6) Zwicky distance class and redshift estimated directly from
                ESO films.
          (7) de Vaucouleurs, de Vaucouleurs, and Corwin 1976.
          (8) de Vaucouleurs 1975.
          (9) Dressler 1980b.
Note (2): Individual notes:
          (1) Rose 5 (Rose 1976).
          (2) Rose 6.
          (3) Error box slightly outside cluster, but kept as the
                identification.
          (4) Very poor group (White 1980).
          (5) Ser 031-05 (Sersic 1974).
          (6) Ser 033-07.
          (7) Ser 040-06.
          (8) Snow 23 (Snow 1970).
          (9) Dev G8 (de Vaucouleurs 1975). X-ray Seyfert NGC 2997 is part of
                this group (Piccinotti et al. 1982).
         (10) Antilia group.
         (11) Abell cluster 1060 (Sandage 1975a). Revised R-S reference is C6
                (Struble and Rood 1982).
         (12) Klem 15 (Klemola 1969).
         (13) Centaurus cluster.
         (14) Klem 21. Ex Hya is the source, not the cluster.
         (15) Klem 22.
         (16) Dev G4. Cen A (NGC 5128) is the source, not the cluster.
         (17) Sandage 1975. X-ray source MCG 6-30-15 is nearby
                (Marshall et al. 1980), but is not the source.
         (18) X-ray Seyfert ESO140G-43 is part of this group
                (Marshall et al. 1979).
         (19) There are two error boxes associated with this cluster.
         (20) Double cluster. Error box is slightly outside cluster, but
                kept as the identification.
         (21) Ser 137-02. Pavo cluster. There are two error boxes associated
                with this cluster.
         (22) Ser 138-07. Not given D/C classes by DN, but is on film #186
                which they surveyed.
         (23) Ser 145-03.
         (24) Very poor group (White 1980).
         (25) Klem 34. X-ray source NGC 7163 is nearby (Marshall et al. 1979),
                but is not the source.
         (26) Ser 149-11. Not given D/C classes by DN, but is on film #146
                which they surveyed. Error box slightly outside cluster, but
                kept as the identification.
         (27) Ser 151-02. X-ray source NGC 7213 is nearby (Piccinotti et al.
                1982), but is not the source.
         (28) Rose 85.  Error box slightly outside cluster, but kept as the
                identification.
         (29) Rose 107. NGC 7582 is part of Grus Quartet, G27
                (de Vaucouleurs 1975).
         (30) Klem 44.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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       2  A1     ---     n_Name   [*] Asterisk indicates cluster is not in
                                       Abell's statistical sample
   3-  7  A5     ---     Name     Name (Abell 1958).
      13  A1     ---     Code     HEAO-1 A-1 letter code (see code table)
  15- 21  F7.3   deg     RAdeg    Right ascension 1950 of the optical center
                                   (Sastry and Rood 1971)
  23- 29  F7.3   deg     DEdeg    Declination 1950 of optical center
                                   (Sastry and Rood 1971)
  31- 37  F7.3   deg     GLON     Cluster optical center new galactic longitude
                                   (epoch 1950)
  39- 45  F7.3   deg     GLAT     Cluster optical center new galactic latitude
                                   (epoch 1950)
      47  A1     ---   l_Flux     [<] Limit flag on Flux
  48- 57  E10.4 ct/cm2/s Flux     Flux or upper limit to flux in A-1 cts/cm2/s
                                   Data were summed in 1-day intervals for S and
                                   D clusters, and 4-day intervals for all
                                   other clusters (Kowalski 1982).
      59  A1     ---   l_log(LX)  [<] Limit flag on LX
  60- 64  F5.2   10-7W   log(LX)  Log of the X-ray luminosity or 2 upper limit
                                   (2-6 keV). (Ho=75km/s/Mpc).
  66- 71  F6.4   ---     z        Redshift. For clusters with bimodal
                                   distributions (Noonan 1981) we choose one
                                   component: A2151B, A2241B, A2319A, and A2645B
  73- 78  F6.4   ---   e_z        []? rms uncertainty on z. If no value is
                                       given, error is assumed to be
                                       0.0210 (Kowalski 1982).
  80- 82  I3     ---   o_z        []? Number of galaxies used to calculate
                                       measured redshifts.
      84  I1     ---   r_z        [1-8]? Redshift reference (1)
  86- 89  F4.1   mag     Mag      Magnitude of 10th brightest galaxy
                                   (Abell 1958).
      91  I1     ---     D        Distance class (Abell 1958).
      93  I1     ---     R        Richness class (Abell 1958).
  95- 97  I3     ---     N        Abell's counts of galaxies (Abell 1980).
  99-100  I2     mm      Radius   Cluster optical radius in mm (LV).
 102-107  A6     ---     B-M      Bautz-Morgan class.
     108  A1     ---   u_B-M      A colon means uncertain classification.
     109  I1     ---   r_B-M      [1-5]? B-M class reference (2)
 111-115  A5     ---     R-S      Revised Rood-Sastry class.
     117  I1     ---   r_R-S      [1-3]? Revised R-S class reference (3)
 119-127  A9     ---     R-S2     Alternate Revised R-S class.
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Note (1): Redshift reference.
         (1) Abell 1958.
         (2) Corwin 1974.
         (3) Hoessel, Gunn, and Thuan 1980.
         (4) KUC.Kowalski et al., 1983
         (5) LV. Leir et al., 1977
         (6) Noonan 1981.
         (7) de Vaucouleurs 1961.
         (8) Hintzen, Scott, and McKee 1981.
Note (2): Bautz-Morgan class reference.
         (1) LV. Leir et al., 1977
         (2) Corwin 1974.
         (3) Sandage, Kristian, and Westphal 1976.
         (4) Bautz and Morgan 1970.
         (5) Bautz 1972.
Note (3): Revised Rood-Sastry class reference.
         (1) Struble and Rood 1982.
         (2) Struble and Rood 1983.
         (3) Struble 1982.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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       2  A1     ---     n_Name   [*] Asterisk indicates cluster is not in
                                       Abell's statistical sample
   3- 11  A9     ---     Name     Name (DN). (1)
      13  A1     ---     Code     HEAO-1 A-1 letter code (see code table)
  15- 21  F7.3   deg     RAdeg    Right ascension 1950 of optical center (DN)
  23- 29  F7.3   deg     DEdeg    Declination 1950 of optical center (DN)
  31- 37  F7.3   deg     GLON     Cluster optical center new galactic longitude
  39- 45  F7.3   deg     GLAT     Cluster optical center new galactic latitude
      47  A1     ---   l_Flux     [<] Limit flag on Flux
  48- 57  E10.4 ct/cm2/s Flux      Flux or 1 sigma upper limit to flux in
                                   A-1 cts/cm2/s. Data were summed in 1-day
                                   intervals for S and D clusters, and 4-day
                                   intervals for all other clusters
                                   (Kowalski 1982).
      59  A1     ---   l_log(LX)  [<] Limit flag on LX
  60- 64  F5.2   10-7W   log(LX)  Log of the X-ray luminosity or 2 sigma upper
                                   limit (2-6 keV). (Ho=75km/s/Mpc).
  66- 71  F6.4   ---     z        Redshift.
  73- 78  F6.4   ---   e_z        []? rms uncertainty on z. If no value is
                                       given, error is assumed to be 0.0210
                                       (Kowalski 1982), except for values from
                                       Dressler 1980b which are 0.001.
  80- 82  I3     ---   o_z        []? Number of galaxies used to calculate
                                       measured redshifts.
  83- 84  I2     ---   r_z        [1-9]? Redshift reference (2)
      91  A1     ---     D        Distance class (DN) (3)
      93  A1     ---     T        [OMC] Concentration class (DN)
  95- 97  I3     ---     N        []? Number of galaxies in the cluster
                                       uncorrected for field (DN)
 102-107  A6     ---     B-M      Bautz-Morgan class.
     108  A1     ---   u_B-M      A colon means uncertain classification.
     109  I1     ---   r_B-M      [1]? B-M class reference (4)
 111-115  A5     ---     R-S      Rood-Sastry class.
     117  I1     ---   r_R-S      [1-2]? R-S class reference (5)
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Note (1): DN identified 710 new clusters and groups, but included 248 previously
           identified clusters in their catalog. This table contains only 951
           entries, because in some cases DN identified two clusters of
           different distances at the same coordinates. Our results are not
           capable of resolving the X-ray emission in such cases.
Note (2): Redshift reference:
          (1) DN.
          (2) Chincarini, Tarenghi, and Bettis 1981.
          (3) Noonan 1981.
          (4) Yahil and Vidal 1977.
          (5) Sandage 1975a.
          (6) Zwicky distance class and redshift estimated directly from
                ESO films.
          (7) de Vaucouleurs, de Vaucouleurs, and Corwin 1976.
          (8) de Vaucouleurs 1975.
          (9) Dressler 1980b.
         (10) (unexplained) (occurs four times)
Note (3): Of the 782 clusters located on the 97 ESO films which DN surveyed,
           only 667 were given distance and concentration classes
Note (4): Bautz-Morgan class reference:
          (1) White 1980
Note (5): Rood-Sastry class reference:
          (1) Lugger 1978.
          (2) Struble and Rood 1982.  Revised R-S class.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5a table5b
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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       2  A1        ---    n_Name  [*] Asterix indicates cluster is not in
                                       Abell's statistical sample
   3-  7  A5        ---      Name  Name (Abell 1958)
  14- 19  F6.2      deg      RAdeg X-ray error box center right ascension (1950)
  21- 26  F6.2      deg      DEdeg X-ray error box center declination (1950)
  28- 33  F6.2      deg      RA1   90% confidence X-ray error box 1st corner RA
  35- 40  F6.2      deg      DE1   90% confidence X-ray error box 1st corner DE
  42- 47  F6.2      deg      RA2   90% confidence X-ray error box 2nd corner RA
  49- 54  F6.2      deg      DE2   90% confidence X-ray error box 2nd corner DE
  56- 61  F6.2      deg      RA3   90% confidence X-ray error box 3d corner RA
  63- 68  F6.2      deg      DE3   90% confidence X-ray error box 3d corner DE
  70- 75  F6.2      deg      RA4   90% confidence X-ray error box 4th corner RA
  77- 82  F6.2      deg      DE4   90% confidence X-ray error box 4th corner DE
  84- 87  F4.2      deg2     Area  Area of error box
  90- 94  F5.2 10-3ct/cm2/s   FX   Flux in 10-3 A-1 counts cm-2 s-1. Data were
                                    summed in 1-day intervals (Kowalski 1982)
  97-100  F4.2 10-3ct/cm2/s e_FX    rms uncertainty on FX
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5c
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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       2  A1     ---   n_Name     [*] Asterix indicates cluster is not in
                                       Abell's statistical sample
   3-  7  A5     ---     Name     Name (Abell 1958)
      11  A1     ---   l_log(LX)  Limit flag on LX
  12- 16  F5.2   10-7W   log(LX)  2 sigma limit of the log of X-ray luminosity
                                   (2-6 keV) (Ho=75km/s/Mpc)
      20  A1     ---     Code     HEAO1 A-1 letter code (see code table)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6a table6b
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   Bytes Format      Units   Label Explanations
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       2  A1         ---   n_Name  [*] Asterix indicates cluster is not in
                                        Abell's statistical sample
   3- 11  A9         ---     Name  Name (DN)
  14- 19  F6.2       deg     RAdeg X-ray error box center right ascension
                                    (1950) (1)
  21- 26  F6.2       deg     DEdeg X-ray error box center declination (1950) (1)
  28- 33  F6.2       deg     RA1   90% confidence X-ray error box 1st corner RA
  35- 40  F6.2       deg     DE1   90% confidence X-ray error box 1st corner DE
  42- 47  F6.2       deg     RA2   90% confidence X-ray error box 2nd corner RA
  49- 54  F6.2       deg     DE2   90% confidence X-ray error box 2nd corner DE
  56- 61  F6.2       deg     RA3   90% confidence X-ray error box 3d corner RA
  63- 68  F6.2       deg     DE3   90% confidence X-ray error box 3d corner DE
  70- 75  F6.2       deg     RA4   90% confidence X-ray error box 4th corner RA
  77- 82  F6.2       deg     DE4   90% confidence X-ray error box 4th corner DE
  84- 87  F4.2       deg2    Area  Area of error box
  90- 94  F5.2 10-3ct/cm2/s  FX    Flux in 10-3 A-1 counts cm-2 s-1. Data were
                                    summed in 1-day intervals (Kowalski 1982)
  96-100  F5.2 10-3ct/cm2/s e_FX   rms uncertainty on FX
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Note (1): These error boxes were constructed in the data analysis, but they
           do not fulfill the criteria necessary for the association of the
           error box with the cluster (see text).
          In table6a, the error box is too large (L)
          In table6b, the error box does not overlap a 1 Abell radius circle
           which is concentric with the cluster center (O)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6c
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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       2  A1     ---   n_Name     [*] Asterix indicates cluster is not in
                                       Abell's statistical sample
   3- 11  A9     ---     Name     Name (DN)
      13  A1     ---   l_log(LX)  Limit flag on LX
  14- 18  F5.2   10-7W   log(LX)  2 sigma limit of the log of X-ray luminosity
                                   (2-6 keV) (Ho=75km/s/Mpc)
      21  A1     ---     Code     HEAO1 A-1 letter code (see code table)
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Table: code HEAO-1
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  C:  Clusters for which error boxes could not be defined. "C" clusters are
       regions with relatively strong emission (~1-3x10^-3^ct/cm2/s), but are
       sufficiently "confused" so that error boxes could not be obtained.
  D:  Firmly identified X-ray clusters. When two or more clusters could be
       associated with a given source, the primary choice is given the letter
       "D" and alternates are given the letter "T"
  L:  Clusters have error boxes that are "larger" than 1 deg2
  O:  Clusters have error boxes which do not "overlap" the circle of one
       Abell radius.
  S:  Firmly identified X-ray clusters. S refers to a "single" identified
       cluster
  T:  For firmly identified X-ray clusters, when two or more clusters could be
       associated with a given source, alternates are given the letter "T"
  U:  Clusters for which error boxes could not be defined. Error box
       construction was not attempted for "U" clusters, for which "upper"
       limits are available only.
  W:  Clusters for which error boxes could not be defined. "W" clusters have
       relatively "weak" emission, so that error box construction was not
       attempted.
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History: The files were forwarded to CDS by Heinz J. Andernarch
           (courtesy M.J. West, Aug. 1991)
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(End)                                           Patricia Bauer [CDS] 30-Jan-1995

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