III/52 Third General Catalogue of MK Spectral Classification (Buscombe 1977)
MK Spectral Classifications, Third General Catalogue.
Buscombe W.
<Northwestern Univ. (1977)>
ADC_Keywords: Spectral types ; Photometry, UBV
Description:
This is the third in a series of catalogs of MK spectral types and UBV
photometry issued from Dearborn Observatory. It is based on an extensive
literature search. Each catalog in the series is essentially self-contained,
with a separate selection of stars.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catalog.dat 83 21870 The Catalogue
refs.dat 65 156 List of References
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See also:
III/189 : 7th-11th Catalogues of MK Spectral Classification (Buscombe+ 1994)
III/223 : 12th General Catalog of MK Spectral Classification (Buscombe 1995)
III/206 : 13th General Catalog of MK Spectral Classification (Buscombe 1998)
III/222 : 14th General Catalog of MK Spectral Classification (Buscombe 1999)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 12 A12 --- Name Name of the star (default HD)
14- 15 I2 h RAh [0/24[? Right Ascension 2000 (hours)
17- 20 F4.1 min RAm [0/60[? Right Ascension 2000 (minutes)
23 A1 - DE- Declination 2000 (sign)
24- 25 I2 deg DEd [0/90[? Declination 2000 (degrees)
27- 28 I2 arcmin DEm [0/60[? Declination 2000 (minutes)
30- 50 A21 --- MK MK spectrum
51- 53 I3 --- r_MK ?Reference number for spectral type
55 A1 --- Note [*]
56- 61 F6.3 mag V []? V-magnitude
62- 67 F6.3 mag B-V []? B-V
68- 73 F6.3 mag U-B []? U-B
75- 77 I3 --- refUBV ?Reference number for UBV photometry
78- 83 A6 --- Notes Notes
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- Refnum Reference number
5-65 A61 --- Ref Reference
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History:
* 14-Feb-1994: Several hundreds errors corrected including misalignments,
wrong positions, etc. (CDS)
* 29-Aug-2001: This catalog was incorrectly listed as superseded by the
Twelfth General Catalog of MK Classifications in April 1997. It was
reingested with this revised ReadMe. (N. Odegard, ADC)
(End) F. Ochsenbein [CDS] 14-Feb-1994, rev. N. Odegard [SSDOO/ADC] 29-Aug-2001