V/133 Kepler Input Catalog (Kepler Mission Team, 2009)
Kepler Input Catalog
Kepler Mission Team
<Kepler Mission Team, NASA (2009)>
=2009yCat.5133....0K 2009yCat.5133....0K
ADC_Keywords: Proper motions ; Effective temperatures ; Abundances, [Fe/H]
Mission_Name: Kepler
Description:
The Kepler Mission, NASA Discovery mission #10, is specifically
designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover
hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable
zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy
have such planets.
The KIC, or Kepler Input Catalog, is the primary source of information
about objects observed as part of the ground-based Kepler Spectral
Classification Program (SCP) in preparation for the selection of
Kepler PI and GO targets. The KIC lists objects down to 21mag, but
it is not complete to this limit. Light from only about 1/3 of these
objects falls on the Kepler CCD detector. A small number of the KIC
objects are calibration objects distributed across the sky. For this
reason the full KIC should never be used for Kepler target selection.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
kic.sam 261 1000 Sample of the Kepler Input Catalog
kic/* . 39 *The Kepler Input Catalog, organised as a set of files
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Note on kic/*: Files are named according to their declination zone, e.g.
"n33.dat" for KIC stars with declination between +33 and +34°
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See also:
http://kepler.nasa.gov/ : The Kepler mission home page
http://archive.stsci.edu/kepler/ : The Kepler home page at MAST
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/kepler/index.html : The Kepler home page at CfA
Byte-by-byte Description of file (#): kic.sam kic/*
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 8 I8 --- KIC [1,13161029] KIC identifier (running number)
10- 19 F10.6 deg RAdeg Right Ascension (J2000)
21- 30 F10.6 deg DEdeg Declination (J2000)
32- 38 F7.1 mas/yr pmRA ? Proper motion along RA (with cos(Dec) factor)
40- 46 F7.1 mas/yr pmDE ? Proper motion along Declination
48- 53 F6.2 mas Plx ? Trigonometric parallax
55- 60 F6.3 mag umag ? Estimated magnitude in SDSS-u band (2)
62- 67 F6.3 mag gmag ? Estimated magnitude in SDSS-g band (2)
69- 74 F6.3 mag rmag ? Estimated magnitude in SDSS-r band (2)
76- 81 F6.3 mag imag ? Estimated magnitude in SDSS-i band (2)
83- 88 F6.3 mag zmag ? Estimated magnitude in SDSS-z band (2)
90- 95 F6.3 mag grmag ? Estimated magnitude in GRed band (2)
97-102 F6.3 mag d51mag ? Estimated magnitude in DDO-51 intermediate-band filter
104-109 F6.3 mag Jmag ? Magnitude in 2MASS J band
111-116 F6.3 mag Hmag ? Magnitude in 2MASS H band
118-123 F6.3 mag Kmag ? Magnitude in 2MASS K band
125-130 F6.3 mag kepmag ? Estimated magnitude in Kepler band
132-141 I10 --- 2Mkey ? 2MASS Cntr identification (Cat. II/246)
143-160 A18 --- 2Mname 2MASS-PSC name (Jhhmmssff+ddmmssf)
162-171 I10 --- SCP-ID ? Unique SCP processing identification number
173-182 I10 --- SCPkey ? Unique integer key to SCPKEY database
184-191 I8 --- catkey ? Unique integer key to CATKEY database
193-194 I2 --- alc Alternative catalog identification (1)
196-205 I10 --- altID ? Identification in alc (a running number, not the identification assigned in alc)
207-207 I1 --- sg [0,1] flags galaxy(1)/star(0) class
209-209 I1 --- v [0,1] flag variable (1)
211-215 A5 --- cq Origin of Kepler magnitude (2)
217-217 I1 --- pq [0/8] number of optical band values (0/8)
219-219 I1 --- aq [0,6] Number of astrophysical parameters
221-221 I1 --- fv [0,2] outside (0) or inside (1,2) Kepler field of view (2 = Kepler Target)
223-227 I5 K Teff ? Estimated effective temperature
229-234 F6.3 [cm/s2] logg ? Estimated log(surface gravity)
236-241 F6.3 [Sun] [Fe/H] ? Estimated metallicity (dex)
243-247 F5.3 mag E(B-V) ? Estimated color excess
249-253 F5.3 mag Av ? Estimated absorption in the V band
255-261 F7.3 solRad R* ? Estimated star radius
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Note (1): the catalog number is as follows:
1 = HIP (Hipparcos, Cat. I/239, I/311)
2 = Tycho2 (Cat. I/259)
3 = UCAC2 (Cat. I/289)
4 = GCVS (see Cat. B/gcvs)
5 = NLTT (see Cat. J/ApJ/582/1011)
11 = NED (NASA Extragalacitc Database)
12 = 2MASX (Cat. VII/233)
13 = FIRST (Cat. VIII/71)
14 = NVSS (Cat. VIII/65)
15 = VLBA (http://www.vlba.nrao.edu/)
16 = Chandra (see Cat. B/chandra)
Note (2): indicates the source of the Kepler-band photometry, as follows:
NOCAL = no calibration of Kepler-band magnitude was possible
2MASS = object found only in 2MASS catalog with no optical counterpart
UNCAL = no calibration, kepmag was copied from a single photometric
value from the parent catalog; the possible error could be >1mag
PHOTO = Kepler- ans SDSS-band magnitudes from photographic surveys
(USNO-B catalog, Cat. I/284; the error could be >0.3mag
TYBV = Kepler-band magnitude from Tycho-2 catalog (I/259)
SCP = photometry from the SDSS; the uncertainty is about 0.03mag.
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History:
* From http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/kepler/catalogs/
* 25-Sep-2024: format migration (CDS)
(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 08-Dec-2009