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J/PASP/105/1407      Rotation Periods of Open Cluster Stars II (Prosser+, 1993)
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Rotation Periods of Open Cluster Stars, II
      Prosser C.F., Shetrone M.D., Marilli E., Catalano S., Williams S.D.,
      Backman D.E., Laaksonen B.D., Adige V., Marschall L.A., Stauffer J.R.
      <Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 105, 1407 (1993)>
      =1993PASP..105.1407P
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, variable; Photometry; Stars, physical properties

Description: 
   This catalog contains the individual instrumental V magnitudes of 16 stars 
   from a photometric monitoring program of 21 stars observed during 1992 in 
   the Pleiades and Alpha Persei open clusters.  The observations were 
   undertaken in order to determine rotational periods of the stars from 
   observed brightness variations.  Brightness variations for an additional 
   five cluster stars are also given.  The magnitudes in this dataset are 
   purely instrumental and have not been converted to a standard V mag system, 
   nor have they been converted to correspond to the mean V mag of the target 
   star.  These magnitudes of the target and comparison stars should therefore
   only be used in a differential sense.  (See note (3)).   

   The column format varies slightly for each star listing because different 
   observations were measured to different precision and different numbers of 
   comparison stars were used.  The general format is that the first column 
   contains the target stars' magnitude, followed by two or more columns of 
   comparison star magnitudes, and the Julian Dates of observation in the last 
   column.   

File Summary:
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 FileName       Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file  
hii314.dat         38       87   HII 314, Pleiades
hii708.dat         38       88   HII 708, Pleiades
hii727.dat         38       85   HII 727, Pleiades
hii2741.dat        38       13   HII 2741, Pleiades
hii2881.dat        47       26   HII 2881, Pleiades
he373.dat          47       51   HE 373, Alpha Persei
he622.dat          47       40   HE 622 = AP 19, Alpha Persei
ap37.dat           47       53   AP 37, Alpha Persei
ap63.dat           39       26   AP 63, Alpha Persei
ap86.dat           39       26   AP 86, Alpha Persei
ap117n.dat         39       25   (NURO obs.) AP 117, Alpha Persei
ap117m.dat         47       20   (MDS obs.) AP 117, Alpha Persei
ap124.dat          39      100   AP 124, Alpha Persei
ap127.dat          47       21   AP 127, Alpha Persei
ap149.dat          47       40   AP 149, Alpha Persei
ap226.dat          47       48   AP 226, Alpha Persei
ap244.dat          47       16   AP 244, Alpha Persei
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: hii314.dat hii708.dat hii727.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   8- 12  F5.3   mag     v        relative V magnitude of target star (2)
  20- 21  I2     ---     N        number of 20 sec observations in average
  27- 38  F12.4  d       JD       Julian Date of observation     
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: hii2741.dat
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    Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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    2-  8  F7.3   mag     mag      relative V magnitude of target star (1)
    9- 15  F7.3   mag     v-A      relative V magnitude of comparison star A
   16- 22  F7.3   mag     v-C      relative V magnitude of comparison star C
   26- 38  F13.5  d       JD       Julian Date of observation     
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: hii2881.dat he373.dat he622.dat ap37.dat 
Byte-by-byte Description of file: ap127.dat ap149.dat ap226.dat ap244.dat  
Byte-by-byte Description of file: ap117m.dat   
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    Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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    2-  8  F7.3   mag     mag      relative V magnitude of target star 
    9- 15  F7.3   mag     v-A      relative V magnitude of comparison star A
   16- 22  F7.3   mag     v-A      relative V magnitude of comparison star B
   23- 29  F7.3   mag     v-B      relative V magnitude of comparison star C
   35- 47  F13.5  d       JD       Julian Date of observation     
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: ap63.dat ap86.dat ap117n.dat 
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    Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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    2-  8  F7.3   mag     mag      relative V magnitude of target star (1)
    9- 15  F7.3   mag     v-A      relative V magnitude of comparison star A
   16- 22  F7.3   mag     v-B      relative V magnitude of comparison star B
   26- 38  F13.5  d       JD       Julian Date of observation     
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: ap124.dat
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    Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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    2-  8  F7.3   mag     mag      relative V magnitude of target star
    9- 15  F7.3   mag     v-A      relative V magnitude of comparison star A
   16- 22  F7.3   mag     v-B      relative V magnitude of comparison star B
   27- 39  F13.5  d       JD       Julian Date of observation     
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 Note (1): 
    NURO observations of HII2741, AP63, AP86 and AP117 have a 'reverse' 
    magnitude system -- a brighter star has a larger listed instrumental V mag.

 Note (2): 
    EM/SC observations of HII 314, 708 and 727 were made with a photoelectric 
    photometer, observing HII405, HII652 as comparison stars.  The column 'N' 
    for their data gives the number of observations which were averaged 
    together (integration time of each measure was 20 sec).

 Note (3): 
    The following identifications from Hertzsprung (1947, Ann. Leiden Obs. 19,
    No.1A) for the Pleiades, and from the Guide Star Catalog for Alpha Per are 
    given for the comparison stars:

    HII2741: A= HII2697 , C= HII2718
    HII2881: A= HII2786 (variable), B= HII2917, C= HII2921

    HE373:   A= GSC3315.0532 , B= GSC3315.1104, C= GSC3315.1424
    HE622 & AP149:
             A= GSC3320.0965 , B= GSC3320.0777, C= GSC3320.0949
    AP37:    A= GSC3320.0001 , B= GSC3320.0615, C= GSC3320.0737
    AP63:    A= GSC3320.1221
    AP117:   A= GSC3320.1863 , B= GSC3320.1573, C= GSC3320.1103
    AP124:   A= GSC3319.1974 , B= GSC3319.1975
    AP127:   A= GSC3311.1925 , B= GSC3315.2422, C= GSC3311.1535
    AP226:   A= GSC3317.0225 , B= GSC3317.1013, C= GSC3317.1127
    AP244:   A= GSC3317.0705 , B= GSC3317.0795, C= ft. star north of AP244

See Also:
    J/PASP/105/269  Light Curves for 10 Rapidly Rotating Stars (Prosser+, 1993)

Remarks:
    July 1996: Original table separated by target star(s) by ADC (James Gass)
    July 1996: Documentation standardized at ADC (James Gass)

References:
    Prosser, C. 1992, AJ 103, 488
    Radick, R. 1991, "The Sun in Time" van den Bergh S., ed. Sonnett, C.,
       Giampapa, M., and Matthews, M. (University of Arizona), p. 787
    Schussler, M., and Solanki, S. 1992, A&A 264, L13

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(End)                                            James Gass [ADC]   31-Jul-1996

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