III/63B Revised Catalogue of Rotational Velocities (Uesugi+ 1982)
Revised Catalogue of Stellar Rotational Velocities
Uesugi A., Fukuda I.
<Department of Astronomy, Kyito Univ., Japan (1982)>
ADC_Keywords: Rotational velocities
Description (prepared by Wayne H. Warren Jr., October 1983):
The machine-readable "Revised Catalogue of Stellar Rotational
Velocities" provides mean v.sin(i) data on the old Slettebak system
(Slettebak 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956; Slettebak and Howard 1955) for 6472
stars. The catalog results from the review, analysis and
transformation of 11460 data from 102 sources. Included in the
computerized version are star identification (major catalog number,
name if the star has one, or cluster identification, etc.), a mean
projected rotational velocity, and a list of source references. This
version of the machine-readable catalog is comprehensive and
supersedes the earlier compilation of Uesugi and Fukuda (1970).
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catalog.dat 67 6472 The Catalogue of Rotational Velocities
refs.dat 117 102 The References
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 6 I6 --- HD [1/359083]? Henry Draper Catalog (HD) number
7- 9 A3 --- m_HD HD component letters or additional numbers
10- 23 A14 --- Name Common name of the object (1)
25- 26 A2 --- l_RotVel [<≥ ] Indicates RotVel is upper/lower limit
27- 29 I3 km/s RotVel Projected rotational velocity, v.sin(i)
30- 31 A2 --- u_RotVel [: ] ':' if RotVel uncertain,
'::' if very uncertain
32- 33 I2 --- o_RotVel [1/12] Number of observations
35- 67 A33 --- Refs Comma-separated list of up to 12 references
(references listed in "refs.dat" file)
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Note (1): Name of star, e.g. Flamsteed and/ or Bayer designation and
constellation abbreviation, variable-star name, cluster identification
and number, Durchmusterung number for non-HD stars. Parenthesized
letters denote lower case.
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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- 4 A4 --- Ref Reference code from table RotVel_Data
(blank for continuation lines)
5-117 A113 --- Text Reference
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Historical Notes:
* The catalog was received at CDS on 23-Feb-1981.
* October 1983, ADC/NSSDC (Wayne H. Warren Jr., se "adc-doc.txt")
A magnetic tape containing the "Revised Catalogue of Stellar
Rotational Velocities" was received from the Astronomical Data Center,
Japan, on 4 March 1983. Minor modifications, as described below, were
made to the data file in order to effect a more homogeneous format
consistent with other computerized catalogs.
1. The HD field contained a zero for every non-HD star; these were
converted to blanks.
2. The abbreviations "BD", "CD", and "CP" were added to
Durchmusterung (DM) numbers where they were absent. The
abbreviation CP already occurred for CPD stars in the zones
-22 degrees to -52 degrees where CD numbers are ordinarily
used (following the HD convention). An unknown character (not
in the published version) occurred in the Name field after all
zone numbers for DM identifications. All occurrences of this
character were changed to blanks.
* October 1991: catalogue prepared (Lee E. Brotzmann) for the
"Selected Astronomical Catalogs" Vol. 1 CD-ROM, directory:
/spectro/rotvel
* September 1995: catalogue documentation standardized at CDS
* February 2016: simplified the table at CDS with
- list the actual number of observations (this number was
originally coded with A=10, B=11, C=12)
- write the references as a comma-separated list
Acknowledgments:
Appreciation is expressed to K. Sadakane of Osaka University for
personally transmitting our request for a copy of the tape to the
Astronomical Data Center, Japan, and to Y. Terashita and A. Hayashi
for preparing and supplying the magnetic tape.
References:
Fukuda, I. 1982, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 94, 271.
Slettebak, A. 1949, Astrophys. J. 110, 498.
Slettebak, A. 1954, Astrophys. J. 119, 146.
Slettebak, A. 1955, Astrophys. J. 121, 653.
Slettebak, A. 1956, Astrophys. J. 124, 173.
Slettebak, A. and Howard, R. F. 1955, Astrophys. J. 121, 102.
Uesugi, A. and Fukuda, I. 1970, A Catalog of Rotational Velocities
of the Stars, Mem. Fac. Sci. Kyoto Univ., Ser. Phys.,
Astrophys., Geophys., Chem. 33, 205.
Uesugi, A. and Fukuda, I. 1981, in Data for Science and Technology,
Proc. 7th International CODATA Conf., ed. P.S. Glaeser (Oxford:
Pergamon Press), p. 201.
(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 08-Sep-1995