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J/other/RMxAA/32.143  uvby photometry in Baade's Window (Ruelas-Mayorga+ 1996)
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Stromgren photometry of stars in Baade's Window. I. The data.
       Ruelas-Mayorga A., Garcia-Ruiz G.
      <Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofis., 32, 143 (1996)>
      =1996RMxAA..32..143R      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Photometry, uvby ; Populations, stellar
Keywords: Galaxy: Center - Galaxy: stellar content - stars: HR-diagram -
          techniques: photometric

Abstract:
    We have obtained uvby data of a sample of 232 stars in Baade's Window.
    These observations are presented along with the corresponding
    diagrams.
    For a description of the uvby photometric system, see e.g. <GCPD/04>

File Summary:
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  FileName        Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table2             53      232   Photometric information for the observed stars
                                  in Baade Window (BW)
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See also:
 J/A+AS/93/61  : IR Stellar Population in Baade's window (Ruelas-Mayorga+ 1992)
 J/A+AS/97/587 : JHK photometry of Galactic center stars (Ruelas-Mayorga+ 1993)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  6  A6    ---     RG96      Name
   9- 10  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (2000) (1)
  12- 13  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (2000)
  15- 18  F4.1  s       RAs       Right ascension (2000)
      20  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign
  21- 22  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (2000) (1)
  24- 25  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (2000)
  27- 28  I2    arcsec  DEs       Declination (2000)
  31- 35  F5.2  mag     vmag      v magnitude (2)
  37- 41  F5.2  mag     b-y       b-y colour index (3)
  43- 47  F5.2  mag     m1        m1 colour index (3)
  49- 53  F5.2  mag     c1        c1 colour index (3)
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Note (1): The errors are +/-0.1s in RA and +/-1" in DE
Note (2): The error in vmag is upper-bounded by +/-0.02
Note (3): The error in b-y, m1 & c1 are upper-bounded by +/-0.01
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History: Prepared via OCR at CDS.
         In the original version, BW 137 has for position: 18 09 11.8 -29 36 65
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(End)                           James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS]  12-Sep-1997

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