III/233B Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (Skiff, 2005)
General Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications
Skiff B. A.
<Lowell Observatory (2005)>
ADC_Keywords: Spectral types
Description:
This file contains spectral classifications for stars collected from
the literature, serving as a continuation of the compilations produced
by the Jascheks, by Kennedy, and by Buscombe. The source of each
spectral type is indicated by a standard 19-digit bibcode citation.
These papers of course should be cited in publication, not this
compilation.
The stars are identified either by the name used in each publication
or by a valid SIMBAD identifier. Some effort has been made to
determine accurate (∼1" or better) coordinates for equinox J2000, and
these serve as a secondary identifier. Magnitudes are provided as an
indication of brightness, but these data are not necessarily accurate,
as they often derive from photographic photometry or rough estimates.
The classifications include MK types as well as types not strictly on
the MK system (white dwarfs, Wolf-Rayet, etc), and in addition simple
HD-style temperature types. Luminosity classes in the early Mount
Wilson style (e.g. 'd' for dwarf, 'g' for giant) and other similar
schemes have been converted to modern notation. Since a citation is
provided for each entry, the source paper should be consulted for
details about classification schemes, spectral dispersion, and
instrumentation used.
The file includes only spectral types determined from spectra (viz.
line and band strengths or ratios), omitting those determined from
photometry (e.g. DDO, Vilnius) or inferred from broadband colors or
bulk spectral energy distributions.
System-defining primary MK standard stars are included from the last
lists by Morgan and Keenan, and are flagged by a + sign in column 79.
The early-type standards comprise the 1973 "dagger standards"
(1973ARA&A..11...29M 1973ARA&A..11...29M) and stars from the Morgan, Abt, and Tapscott
atlas (1978rmsa.book.....M 1978rmsa.book.....M). Keenan made continual adjustments to the
standards lists up to the time of his death. Thus the late-type
standards comprise those marked as high-weight standards in the 1989
Perkins catalogue (1989ApJS...71..245K 1989ApJS...71..245K = III/150), plus the carbon-
and S-type standards (1980ApJS...43..379K 1980ApJS...43..379K, 1996ApJS..105..419B 1996ApJS..105..419B), and
class IIIb 'clump giants' (1999ApJ...518..859K 1999ApJ...518..859K). In addition, I have
made use of the final types by Keenan up to January 2000 shown at the
Ohio State Web site (http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/MKCool).
Though the present file contains all the stars in these lists, only
those marked as standards are flagged as such. Garrison's list of MK
'anchor points' might also be consulted in this regard
(1994mpyp.conf....3G).
The catalogue includes for the first time results from many
large-scale objective-prism spectral surveys done at Case, Stockholm,
Crimea, Abastumani, and elsewhere. The stars in these surveys were
usually identified only on charts or by other indirect means, and have
been overlooked heretofore because of the difficulty in recovering the
stars. More complete results from these separate publications,
including notes and identifications, have been made available to the
CDS, and are kept at the Lowell Observatory ftp area
(ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats). Not all of these stars are
present in SIMBAD.
As a 'living catalogue', an attempt will be made to keep up with
current literature, and to extend the indexing of citations back in
time.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
mktypes.dat 124 156824 The catalog of MK Spectral Types
surveyed.txt 79 291 List of surveyed articles
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: mktypes.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 19 A19 --- Bibcode Publication Source
22- 44 A23 --- Name Star name as published or valid
SIMBAD name (Lortet et al.)
46- 47 I2 h RAh Right Ascension (J2000) hour
49- 50 I2 min RAm Right Ascension (J2000) minute
52- 56 F5.2 s RAs Right Ascension (J2000) second
58 A1 --- DE- Declination sign
59- 60 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) degree
62- 63 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) minute
65- 68 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) second
70 A1 --- rc Source of coordinates (1)
72- 76 F5.2 mag Mag ? Magnitude, see passband in n_Mag
77 A1 --- n_Mag [PBVRIJKg] Color passband of magnitude (2)
79 A1 --- f_SpType [+] if spectral type is an MK standard
80-102 A23 --- SpType spectral type (MK, HD, or other)
104-124 A21 --- Remarks Comments (3)
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Note (1): sources of astrometry:
A = USNO-A2.0 (1998USNO2.C......0M 1998USNO2.C......0M, Cat. I/252)
B = Bordeaux meridian circle (2001A&A...376..325R 2001A&A...376..325R, Cat. I/272)
b = USNO-B1.0 (2003AJ....125..984M 2003AJ....125..984M, Cat. I/284)
c = AC 2000.2 (1998AJ....115.1212U 1998AJ....115.1212U, Cat. I/275)
C = Carlsberg CMC11 (Cat. I/256)
+ Carlsberg CMC12 v1 (2002A&A...395..347E 2002A&A...395..347E, Cat. I/282)
D = DENIS (1999A&A...349..236E 1999A&A...349..236E, Cat. II/240)
E = SuperCOSMOS-Edinburgh (http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/obj.html)
F = USNO-Flagstaff transit circle (1999AJ....118.2488S 1999AJ....118.2488S, Cat. I/263)
G = GSC-ACT (1999GSCTy.C......0G 1999GSCTy.C......0G, Cat. I/255)
g = GSC-2.2 (2001GSC2..C......0S 2001GSC2..C......0S, Cat. I/271)
H = Hipparcos (1997A&A...323L..49P 1997A&A...323L..49P, Cat. I/239)
I = IRAS Point Source Catalog (Cat. II/125)
M = 2MASS second or all-sky releases (Cat. II/241, or II/246)
P = PPM Catalogues (Cats. I/146, I/193, I/208)
S = Sloan Digital Sky Survey (http://www.sdss.org)
s = SkyView estimate (±2")
T = Tycho-2 (2000A&A...357..367H 2000A&A...357..367H, Cat. I/259)
U = UCAC1 (2000AJ....120.2131Z 2000AJ....120.2131Z, Cat. I/268) or UCAC2 (Cat. I/289)
u = UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement (Cat. I/294)
X = MSX (2001AJ....121.2819P 2001AJ....121.2819P, Cat. V/107; ± ∼5")
Y = Yale SPM (1998AJ....116.2556P 1998AJ....116.2556P, Cat. I/277)
z = MCPS catalogue (2002AJ....123..855Z 2002AJ....123..855Z, Cat. J/AJ/123/855)
- = other (copied from source paper, derived from x,y coordinates, etc.)
Note (2): passbands are usually standard Johnson-Cousins BVRI,
or photographic equivalents, near-infrared J and K, also Sloan-Gunn g.
Note (3): comments are often greatly compressed; some common phrases are:
brtr = brighter
cpm = common proper motion
fntr = fainter
grp = group
ID = identification
lg pm = large proper motion (usually > 0".1 per year)
prob = probably
spec var = spectrum variable
Nrn = northern
Nmost = northernmost (and similar)
Ern = eastern
Srn = southern
Wrn = western
NErn = northeastern
NWrn = northwestern
SErn = southeastern
SWrn = southwestern
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History:
* 19-May-2003: Prepared by Brian Skiff (Lowell Observatory) (58783 records)
* 18-Jul-2003: Several errors corrected by the author (63865 records)
* 31-May-2004: Updated and completed version (III/233A)
(End) Brian Skiff [Lowell Obs.], Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 31-May-2004