III/256 Vatican Emission-line stars (Coyne+ 1974-1983)
Vatican Emission-line stars.
Coyne G.V., Lee T.A., de Graeve E., Wisniewski W., Corbally C., Otten L.B.,
MacConnell D.J.
<Vatican Obs. Publ. (1974-1983)>
=1974VatOP...1..181C 1974VatOP...1..181C
=1975VatOP...1..197C 1975VatOP...1..197C
=1976VatOP...1..225W 1976VatOP...1..225W
=1976VatOP...1..245W 1976VatOP...1..245W
=1978VatOP...1..257C 1978VatOP...1..257C
=1983VatOP...2...63M 1983VatOP...2...63M
=1983VatOP...2...73C 1983VatOP...2...73C
ADC_Keywords: Stars, emission ; Surveys ; Stars, late-type ; Galactic plane ;
Spectroscopy
Description:
The survey represents a search for Hα emission-line stars, and
was conducted with a 12° objective prism on the Vatican Schmidt
telescope. The Vatican Emission Stars (VES) survey covers the galactic
plane (|b|≤5°) between galactic longitudes 58 and 174°.
The catalog was re-examined by B. Skiff (Lowell Observatory), and tne
VES stars were cross-identified with modern surveys: GSC (Cat. I/255),
Tycho-2 (I/256), 2MASS (II/246), IRAS point source catalog (II/125),
MSX6C (V/114), CMC14 (I/304), GSC-2.3 (I/305), UCAC2 (I/289).
Cross-identifications are also supplied with HD/BD/GCVS names, and
with Dearborn catalog of red stars (II/68).
Many of the stars in the first four papers are not early-type
emission-line stars, but instead M giants, where the sharp TiO
bandhead at 6544Å was mistaken for H-α emission on the
objective-prism plates. Based on the revision of paper V and a
later list prepared by Jack MacConnell, a column identifies the
"non H-alpha" stars explicitly. The links with the Dearborn, IRAS,
and MSX catalogues help identify the red stars. These and other
identifications and comments are given in the remarks at the end of
each line, or in longer notes in a separate file, indicated by an
asterisk (*) next to the star number.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
ves.dat 131 801 Coordinates and identifications for the VES
emission-line stars (version 12 May 2009)
phot.dat 117 650 Photometric observations in Johnson system
notes.dat 79 154 Notes on VES stars (from Brian Skiff)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: ves.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 A3 --- --- [VES] (Vatican Emission Star)
5- 7 I3 --- VES [1,977] Identification number
8 A1 --- n_VES [*] indicates a note detailed in "notes.dat"
10- 11 I2 h RAh Right Ascension J2000 (hours)
13- 14 I2 min RAm Right Ascension J2000 (minutes)
16- 20 F5.2 s RAs Right Ascension J2000 (seconds)
22 A1 --- DE- Declination J2000 (sign)
23- 24 I2 deg DEd Declination J2000 (degrees)
26- 27 I2 arcmin DEm Declination J2000 (minutes)
29- 32 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination J2000 (seconds)
34 A1 --- src [GgMTUC-] Source of position (1)
36- 45 A10 --- GSC GSC designation (Cat. I/254)
47- 57 A11 --- IRAS IRAS designation (Cat. II/125, II/275)
59- 75 A17 --- MSX6C MSX6C designation (Cat. V/114)
77- 80 F4.1 mag Vmag Visual magnitude (approximative)
82- 85 A4 --- em Emission feature
87 A1 --- noHa [X] X when no Hα emission (2)
89-131 A43 --- Remarks Short remarks (by B. Skiff)
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Note (1): Source of position as follows:
G = GSC-ACT (1999yCat.1255.....G 1999yCat.1255.....G, I/255)
g = GSC-2.2 (2001yCat.1271.....S 2001yCat.1271.....S, I/271)
M = 2MASS second release (2000yCat.2241.....S 2000yCat.2241.....S, II/241)
T = Tycho-2 (2000A&A...357..367H 2000A&A...357..367H, I/259)
U = UCAC2 (2004AJ....127.3043Z 2004AJ....127.3043Z, I/289)
C = Carlsberg CMC11 or CMC14 (1999yCat.1256.....C 1999yCat.1256.....C, I/256 or
2006yCat.1304.....C 2006yCat.1304.....C, I/304)
Note (2): X marks those stars showing no H-α emission, as shown
in paper VI (1983VatOP...2...63M 1983VatOP...2...63M)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: notes.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- VES Identification number
7- 79 A73 --- Text Text of note
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: phot.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- VES [1,977] Identification number, as in "ves.dat"
7- 11 F5.2 mag Vmag Johnson V magnitude
13- 17 F5.2 mag B-V Johnson B-V index
19- 23 F5.2 mag U-B ? Johnson U-B index
25- 29 F5.2 mag V-R ? Johnson V-R index
31- 35 F5.2 mag V-I ? Johnson V-I index
38 I1 --- n ? Number of observations
41- 50 F10.2 d JD ? Julian date of observation
53-117 A65 --- Remarks Notes (by B. Skiff) about the photometry
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Acknowledgements:
It is a pleasure to thank Brian Skiff (Lowell Observatory) who
prepared the files; thanks are also due to Jack MacConnell for
providing various hints about the preparation of parts of the
catalogue he was involved with.
(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 22-Oct-2009