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J/ApJS/94/687        Old stellar populations. V. (Worthey+, 1994)
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Old stellar populations. V. Absorption feature indices for the complete
Lick/IDS sample of stars
      Worthey G., Faber S.M., Gonzalez J.J., Burstein D.
     <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 94, 687 (1994)>
     =1994ApJS...94..687W      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, late-type; Spectroscopy
Keywords: galaxies: stellar content - stars: abundances - stars:
          atmospheres - stars: fundamental parameters

Abstract:
   Twenty-one optical absorption features, 11 of which have been
   previously defined, are automatically measured in a sample of 460
   stars. Following Gorgas et al., the indices are summarized in fitting
   functions that give index strengths as functions of stellar
   temperature, gravity, and [Fe/H]. This project was carried out with
   the purpose of predicting index strengths in the integrated light of
   stellar populations of different ages and metallicities, but the data
   should be valuable for stellar studies in the Galaxy as well. Several
   of the new indices appear to be promising indicators of metallicity
   for old stellar populations. A complete list of index data and
   atmospheric parameters is available in computer-readable form.



Description:
  Detailed documentation has been supplied by the authors in file tablea1.doc.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
tablea1.doc    277        354    Author-supplied documentation
tablea1.dat    319        460    Collected indices for published stars
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: tablea1.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  8  A8     ---     HD        Henry Draper Catalog number, if any
  11- 24  A14    ---     Name1     Alternate names for the star (1)
  26- 39  A14    ---     Name2     Alternate names for the star (1)
  42- 47  F6.3   mag     CN1       []? CN1 index value
  50- 55  F6.3   mag     CN2       []? CN2 index value
  58- 63  F6.3   0.1nm   Ca4227    []? Ca4227 index value
  66- 71  F6.3   0.1nm   G4300     []? G4300  index value
  74- 79  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe4383    []? Fe4383 index value
  82- 87  F6.3   0.1nm   Ca4455    []? Ca4455 index value
  90- 95  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe4531    []? Fe4531 index value
  98-103  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe4668    []? Fe4668 index value
 106-111  F6.3   0.1nm   HB4681    HB4681 index value
 114-119  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe5015    []? Fe5015 index value
 122-127  F6.3   mag     Mg1       []? Mg1 index value
 130-135  F6.3   mag     Mg2       Mg2 index value
 138-143  F6.3   0.1nm   Mgb       Mgb index value
 146-151  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe5270    Fe5270 index value
 154-159  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe5335    Fe5335 index value
 162-167  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe5406    []? Fe5406 index value
 170-175  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe5709    []? Fe5709 index value
 178-183  F6.3   0.1nm   Fe5782    []? Fe5782 index value
 186-191  F6.3   0.1nm   Na5895    []? Na5895 index value
 194-199  F6.3   mag     TiO1      []? TiO1 index value
 202-207  F6.3   mag     TiO2      []? TiO2 index value
 213-217  I5     K       Teff      []? Effective temperature
 221-224  F4.2   cm/s2   logg      []? Logarithm of the surface gravity
 228-233  F6.3   ---     [Fe/H]    []? Metallicity
 235-236  I2     ---     Nobs      Number of observations (2)
 239-240  A2     ---     r_Teff    Source for effective temperature (3)
 243-244  A2     ---     r_logg    Source for gravity (3)
 245-248  A4     ---     r_[Fe/H]  Source for [Fe/H] (3)
 252-319  A68    ---     Com       Spectral type and comment, if any.
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Note (1): Name1 and Name2 could be :
       "HR" numbers (Bright Star Catalog; Hoffleit 1982),
       "BD" (Bonner Durchmusterung) numbers,
       "Gl" numbers (Nearby Stars; Gleise 1969),
       cluster names (see the Appendix of the printed paper),
       or common names.  This is not a complete cross-reference list.
Note (2): This number is the upper limit to the actual number of measurements
       which went into the index averages, as some portions of some spectra
       were missing or otherwise unusable.
Note (3): See the author-supplied documentation, file tablea1.doc, for a
       complete list of references.
     There are 2 references in r_[Fe/H] for HD 114762
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Origin: AAS CD-ROM series, Volume 3, 1995
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(End)        Lee Brotzman [ADS] 16-Oct-94, Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 24-Jul-1995

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