I/295          Absolute Proper motions of 59766 stars          (Bobylev+, 2004)
Proper motions of 59766 stars with respect to galaxies in 149 areas of the sky
(PUL2).
    Bobylev V.V., Bronnikova N.M., Schakht N.A.
   <Pis'ma Astron. Zh. 30, 519 (2004)>
   =2004PAZh...30..519B 2004PAZh...30..519B
   =2004AstL...30..469B 2004AstL...30..469B
ADC_Keywords: Proper motions
Description:
    The catalog PUL2 was made by photographic method in Pulkovo in
    accordance with Deutsch plan (KSZ, Deutch A.N., 1952IAUT....8..789D 1952IAUT....8..789D).
    Observations were made using Pulkovo Normal astrograph. The first
    epochs of photographic plates were fulfilled since 1937 till 1965, 
    and the second ones - since 1969 till 1986. PUL2 includes 149 areas
    uniformly covering the North sky. The mean epoch difference is 24
    years. For each area there are three pairs of plates. All plates are
    taken with one hour and 5 min exposure. On the plates with diffraction
    grating only bright reference stars were measured. For obtaining
    relative star proper motions the faint (15.2) reference stars we
    used. Relative proper motions were obtained using a six constant plate
    model. For obtaining fictitious proper motions of extragalactic
    objects (absolutization) about 700 galaxies was used. Random errors of
    relative star proper motions are of 5.5mas/yr in right ascension and
    5.9mas/yr in declination. Errors of fictitious proper motions of
    galaxies are of 7.9mas/yr (mean absolutization error) for both
    coordinates by a representation of the Oort-Lindblad model. On the
    base of comparison of the common stars of PUL2 and Hipparcos
    catalogues the components of the residual rotation vector of the
    Hipparcos referently to extragalactic reference frame have been
    derived as follows:
        w(x,y,z)=(-0.98,-0.03,-1.66)±(0.47,0.38,0.42)mas/yr.
    Mean random errors of absolute bright star proper motions from
    comparison of PUL2 and Hipparcos catalogues were estimated as
    9mas/yr in both coordinates.
File Summary:
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 FileName  Lrecl  Records  Explanations
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ReadMe        80        .  This file
catalog.dat   94    59766  Proper motions of 59766 stars with respect 
                           to galaxies
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See also:
    I/239 : The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)
    I/42  : Preliminary Cat. of Fund. Faint Stars (Zverev+, 1958)
    I/250 : The Tycho Reference Catalogue (Hog+ 1998)
    I/290 : Pulkovo catalogue of 58483 stars (Pul-3) (Khrutskaya+, 2004)
Byte-by-byte description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes  Format  Units       Label    Explanations
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  1-9   F9.5   deg         RAdeg   [1.3,358.9] Mean Right Ascension,
                                                ICRS, J2000.0
 10-18  F9.5   deg         DEdeg   [-5.8,86.6] Mean Declination, ICRS,J2000.0
 20-25  F6.4   arcsec/yr   pmRA    [-0.8947,0.5775] Relative proper motion
                                                     in RA*cos(DE)
 27-31  F5.4   arcsec/yr e_pmRA    ? mean error on pmRA
 33-39  F7.4   arcsec/yr   pmDE    [-1.1287,0.3945] Relative proper motion in DE
 41-45  F5.4   arcsec/yr e_pmDE    ? mean error on pmY
 47-50  F4.1   mag         phmag   ? Photographic magnitude
    52  I1     ---       o_phmag   [1/8] Number of expositions used
 54-59  F6.4  arcsec/yr    ApmRA   [-0.0215,0.0213] Absolutization of proper
                                     motion in RA*cos(DE)(1)
 61-66  F6.4  arcsec/yr    ApmDE   [-0.0260,0.0176] Absolutization of proper
                                     motion in DE
 68-70  I3     ---         OBL     [1,157] Number of PUL2 area (2)
 72-77  I6     ---         HIP     [502,117918]? Hipparcos number
 79-82  I4     ---         TYC1    [1,5250]? The TYC identifier TYCID1 copied
                                    from TRC (Tycho Reference Catalog I/250)
 84-87  I4     ---         TYC2    [1,4675]? TYCID2 copied from TRC
    89  I1     ---         TYC3    ? TYCID3 copied from TRC
 91-94  I4     ---         PUL2    [1,6608] PUL2 number
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Note (1): Absolute star proper motion must be obtained with formulae:
          pmX_absolute = pmX+RX,
          pmY_absolute = pmY+RY.
Note (2): Numbers from 1 to 157 are given according to the KSZ plan.
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(End)                  Veta Avedisova (INASAN)                       10-May-2004