I/206 Bright Stars Supplement to PPM (Bastian+ 1993)
The Bright Stars Supplement to the PPM and PPM South Catalogue, Revised Edition
Bastian U., Roeser S.
<Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg (1993)>
=1994yCat.1206....0B 1994yCat.1206....0B
ADC_Keywords: Positional data ; Proper motions
Description:
A number of bright stars is missing from the PPM Star Catalogue, both
on the northern I/146 and on the southern I/193 hemisphere. The
Bright Stars Supplement described here makes PPM complete down to
V=7.5 mag. For this purpose it lists all missing stars brighter than
V=7.6 mag that we could find in published star lists. Their total
number is 275. Only 2 of them are brighter than V=3.5. This replaces
the December 1992 edition (catalogue I/194) of the Bright Stars
Supplement which inadvertently contained 46 duplicates of stars
already contained in the main parts of PPM.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
descrip 76 174 Authors' description and remarks
ppmb 131 275 The Bright Star Supplement
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: ppmb
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Bytes Format Unit Label Explanation
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2- 7 I6 --- PPM [400001/400321]+ PPM number
10- 18 A9 --- DM Durchmusterung (always empty, here)
20- 23 F4.1 mag Mag Visual magnitude
25- 26 A2 --- Sp Spectral type (blank)
28- 29 I2 h RAh Right Ascension for the Equinox=J2000.0 and
Epoch=J2000.0, on the system of FK5
31- 32 I2 min RAm Right Ascension J2000 (minutes)
34- 39 F6.3 s RAs Right Ascension J2000 (seconds)
42 A1 --- DE- Declination J2000 (sign)
43- 44 I2 deg DEd Declination for the equinox and epoch
J2000.0, on the system of FK5
46- 47 I2 arcmin DEm Declination J2000 (minutes)
49- 53 F5.2 arcsec DEs Declination J2000 (seconds)
56- 62 F7.4 s/a pmRA Proper motion in right ascension
64- 69 F6.3 arcsec/a pmDE Proper motion in declination
71- 72 I2 --- Npos [0] Number of individual positions used
74- 75 I2 10mas e_RA [99] Mean error of RA multiplied by cos(DE)
77- 78 I2 10mas e_DE [99] Mean error of DE
80- 83 F4.1 mas/a e_pmRA [9.9] Mean error of pmRA
multiplied by cos(DE)
85- 88 F4.1 mas/a e_pmDE [9.9] Mean error of proper motion in DE
90- 94 F5.2 a EpRA-1900 [50] Weighted mean epoch for RA, given in
years since 1900
96-100 F5.2 a EpDE-1900 [50] Weighted mean epoch for DE, given in
years since 1900
127 A1 --- Flag1 [B] 'B' for Bright star
128 A1 --- Flag2 [D] 'D' for double star
131 A1 --- Flag5 [R] 'R' for Remark (only No 400148)
explained in file descrip (1)
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Note (1): Code as follows:
R = Star 400148: Double star. Separation 0.5 arcsec.
The companion is PPM 357553.
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See also:
I/146 : PPM-North Catalogue
I/193 : PPm-South Catalogue
I/208 : The 90000 stars Supplement to PPM
(End) Joseph Florsch [CDS] and Gail Schneider [NSSDC/ADC] 09-Nov-1994