J/AcA/51/259    Contact binaries in OGLE-I database     (Szymanski+, 2001)
Contact binaries in OGLE-I database.
    Szymanski M., Kubiak M., Udalski A.
   <Acta Astron., 51, 259 (2001)>
   =2001AcA....51..259S 2001AcA....51..259S
ADC_Keywords: Binaries, eclipsing ; Photometry
Keywords: binaries: close - binaries: eclipsing - catalogs
Description:
    The present catalog contains the most numerous, observationally
    homogeneous sample of contact binaries. It is derived from the OGLE
    experiment (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment), in the
    direction of the Galactic Bulge and the Galactic bar. The observations
    were made with the 1-m Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in
    Chile, over the period 1992 to 1995.
    The present catalog includes the 1575 newly discovered contact
    binaries fainter than I=18mag as well as the 1165 brighter contact
    binaries previously published. It also includes a list of 506 objects
    with nearly sinusoidal light curves, to ease the comparison and/or
    distinction between contact binaries with the sinusoidal light curves
    and pulsating stars.
Description:
      The light curves are available at the OGLE site:
       ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle1/contact_binaries/EWa/phot/
       ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle1/contact_binaries/EWs/phot/
       ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle1/contact_binaries/P/phot/
File Summary:
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 FileName  Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe        80        .   This file
ew.dat        78     2740   Catalog of all contact binaries (EW) found in OGLE-I
puls.dat      64      506   Pulsating stars
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See also:
   ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle : OGLE Internet Archive
   ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle1/contact_binaries : OGLE Repository
            for EW stars.
   I/244  : OGLE General Catalog of Stars. I. (Szymanski+ 1996)
   II/213 : OGLE Galactic Bulge periodic variables (Udalski+ 1996)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: ew.dat puls.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  6  A6    ---     Field     OGLE-I field name
   9- 14  I6    ---     Star      Star no. in the OGLE-I database
      15  A1    ---   n_Star      [*] Note on Star (1)
  17- 18  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (J2000)
      19  A1    ---     ---       [:]
  20- 21  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (J2000)
      22  A1    ---     ---       [:]
  23- 27  F5.2  s       RAs       Right ascension (J2000)
      30  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (J2000)
  31- 32  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (J2000)
      33  A1    ---     ---       [:]
  34- 35  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (J2000)
      36  A1    ---     ---       [:]
  37- 40  F4.1  arcsec  DEs       Declination (J2000)
  43- 47  F5.2  mag     Imag      Calibrated I magnitude
  49- 53  F5.2  mag     V-I       ?=9.99 Calibrated V-I color (2)
  56- 62  F7.5  d       Per       Period
  64- 66  A3    ---     Type      Type classification (EWa, EWs or P) (3)
  69- 78  A10   ---     OName     Old name (BWNN_VNNN) for contact binaries
                                   present in the first catalog of OGLE-I
                                   variable stars
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Note (1): Two stars survived all checks and entered the catalog twice,
          with two different period values:
          BW11 72188 (EWa) and BW7 66654  (EWs)
Note (2): 9.99 if no data in V available for a star; I magnitude for these
          stars was calibrated with typical value of V-I=1.0.
Note (3): Classification as follows:
    EWa = EWa-type binaries: contact binaries with markedly different
          depths of both minima
    EWs = EWs-type binaries: contact binaries for which the depth of
          both minima are the same (within the error bars)
      P = stars with nearly sinusoidal light curves classified as
          pulsating variables (for comparison)
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History:
    Copied at ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle1/contact_binaries/
(End)                                        Patricia Bauer [CDS]    19-Feb-2002