II/144 Brightest stars in the field of M31 (Berkhuijsen+ 1988)
Catalogue of the brightest stars in the field of M31
Berkhuijsen E.M., Humphreys R.M., Ghigo F.D., Zumach W.
<Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 76, 65 (1988)>
=1988A&AS...76...65B 1988A&AS...76...65B
ADC_Keywords: Regional catalog ; Magnitudes, photographic
Description:
This Catalogue of 11438 stars in the field of M31 is based on a set of
Tautenburg Schmidt plates in U, B, V and R taken by van den Bergh. The
range of visual magnitudes of stars is 11.5 < V < 20.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catalog.dat 80 11438 *Stars in M31 field
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Note on catalog.dat: the astrometry of this catalogue has a systematic
error in both RA and DEC which may be as large as 10", see
Magnier et al., 1993A&A...272..695M 1993A&A...272..695M
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See also:
II/145 : Brightest stars in a foreground field of M31 (Berkhuijsen+, 1988)
II/208 : BVRI CCD photometry in the field of M 31 (Magnier+ 1992)
Byte-per-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 deg DecStrip [39/41] Declination strip
6- 9 I4 --- Sequence Number within DecStrip
11- 12 I2 h RAh [0] Right Ascension 1950 (hours)
14- 15 I2 min RAm [31/45] Right Ascension 1950 (minutes)
17- 21 F5.2 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds)
24 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign)
25- 26 I2 deg DEd [39/41] Declination 1950 (degrees)
28- 29 I2 arcmin DEm Declination 1950 (minutes)
31- 34 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination 1950 (seconds)
36 A1 --- x_Vmag [B] 'B' if B magnitude given
38- 42 F5.2 mag Vmag [11.4/20.2] V magnitude, unless
x_Vmag specifies that B is given
43- 46 F4.2 mag e_Vmag mean error on V
47 A1 --- q_Vmag [m] 'm' indicating a marginal Vmag
49- 53 F5.2 mag (U-B) [-2.5/3]? colour index
54- 57 F4.2 mag e_(U-B) [0.1/0.6]? Mean error on (U-B)
58 A1 --- q_(U-B) [m] 'm' indicating a marginal (U-B)
60- 64 F5.2 mag (B-V) [-1/2.5]? colour index
65- 68 F4.2 mag e_(B-V) [0.1/0.6]? Mean error on (B-V)
69 A1 --- q_(B-V) [m] 'm' indicating a marginal (B-V)
71- 75 F5.2 mag (V-R) [-1.2/3]? colour index
76- 79 F4.2 mag e_(V-R) [0.1/0.6]? Mean error on (V-R)
80 A1 --- q_(V-R) [m] 'm' indicating a marginal (V-R)
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History:
The original (non-standard) FITS table has been converted into a
standard ASCII file at CDS
References:
Berkhuijsen E.M., Humphreys R.M.: 1989, Astron. Astrophys., 214, 68-78 ;
Bull. Inf. Centre Donnees Stellaires, 36, 179-180 (1989)
=1989A&A...214...68B 1989A&A...214...68B
(End) [CDS] 28-May-1993