V/1 Catalogue of Nearby Stars, Edition 1969 (Gliese, 1979)
Catalogue of of Nearby Stars, Edition 1969
Gliese W.
<Veroeff. Recheninst. Heidelberg 22 (1969)>
=1969VeARI..22....1G 1969VeARI..22....1G
=1969yCat.5001....0G 1969yCat.5001....0G
ADC_Keywords: Stars, nearby ; Proper motions ; Radial velocities ;
Spectral types ; Magnitudes, absolute ; Parallaxes, spectroscopic ;
Parallaxes, trigonometric ; Space velocities
Introduction:
The Catalogue of Nearby Stars, Edition 1969, is a new edition of the
"Katalog der Sterne naeher als 20pc fuer 1950.0" (Giiese 1957, Astron.
Rechen-Inst. Heidelberg Mitt. A, 8). It contains the data available at
the end of 1968 for the 915 stars of the first edition, as well as
stars with parallaxes ≥0.045arcsec.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catalog.dat 132 1889 The Catalogue of Nearby Stars, Edition 1969
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See also:
V/32 : Stars within 25 pc of the Sun (Woolley+ 1970)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 5 F5.1 --- Gl [1/915] Star number (1)
6 A1 --- m_Gl [ABCD] Multiplicity index
7 A1 --- f_Gl [*] The asterisk indicates a star beyond 22pc.
8- 19 A12 --- Name Common name of the star
20- 25 I6 --- HD ? Henry Draper (III/135) identification
26- 27 I2 h RAh Right Ascension B1950 (hours), Ep=B1950
28- 29 I2 min RAm Right Ascension B1950 (minutes), Ep=B1950
30- 31 I2 s RAs Right Ascension B1950 (seconds), Ep=B1950
32 A1 --- DE- Declination B1950 (sign), Ep=B1950
33- 34 I2 deg DEd Declination B1950 (degrees), Ep=B1950
36- 38 I3 0.1arcmin DEdm Declination B1950 (deci-minutes), Ep=B1950
40- 44 I5 0.1ms/yr pmRA Proper motion along RA
45- 49 I5 mas/yr pmDE Proper motion along Declination
50- 53 I4 km/s RV ?=0 Radial velocity
54 A1 --- u_RV [*] Inaccurate radial velocity (2)
55 A1 --- q_RV [A-E] Quality of radial velocity, A=best (2)
56 A1 --- Lw [3-7C] Wilson's luminosity class (3)
57- 59 A3 --- Sp Spectral temperature class (3)
60 A1 --- LC [1-9] MK luminosity classification (3)
61 A1 --- pec [1-9] Spectral peculiarity (3)
62 A1 --- Sj [J] for a joint spectral type (binary)
63 A1 --- Sr [CEGHKLMOW] Origin of the spectral type (4)
65- 68 I4 cmag Vmag V-band magnitude
69 A1 --- f_Vmag [P*] Photographic Vmag
71- 73 I3 cmag B-V ? (B-V) color
74 A1 --- f_B-V [J] Joint color
75- 78 I4 cmag U-B ? (U-B) color
79 A1 --- f_U-B [J] Joint color
81- 83 I3 cmag R-I ? (R-I) color
84 A1 --- f_R-I [J] Joint color
86- 88 I3 mas pi.t ? Trigonometric parallax πt
90- 91 I2 mas e_pi.t ? Probable error on pi.t
93- 95 I3 dmag Mt ? Trigonometrically determined Absolute magnitude
96 A1 --- q_Mt [C-F] Quality pf Mt (5)
98-100 I3 mas pi.s ? Spectroscopic parallax πs
101 A1 --- f_pi.s [U] Uncertain pi.s
103-105 I3 mas pi.p ? Photometric parallax πp
106 A1 --- f_pi.p [U] Uncertain pi.p
108-110 I3 mas pi.r ? Resulting parallax πr
112-113 I2 mas e_pi.r ? Probable error on pi.r
115-118 I4 cmag Mres ? Resulting absolute magnitude Mres
119 A1 --- f_Mres [P] Photographic absolute magnitude
120 A1 --- q_Mres [A-F] Quality of Mres (5)
121-124 I4 km/s Uvel ? U-component of spatial velocity (6)
125-128 I4 km/s Vvel ? V-component of spatial velocity (6)
129-132 I4 km/s Wvel ? W-component of spatial velocity (6)
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Note (1): the numbers of the first edition have a ".0" fraction; new stars
are added in order of increasing RA
Note (2): the velocities of white dwarfs are marked by an asterisk (*).
The qualities are (p.e. means "probable error"):
A = well determined, p.e.≤0.9km/s
B = good, 0.9km/s<p.e.≤2km/s
C = fair, 2km/s<p.e.≤5km/s
D = poor, 5km/s<p.e.≤10km/s; use only in statistical investigations
E = bad, p.e.>10km/s, to be ignored.
Note (3): Spectral type components are:
* Wilson's luminosity class, which is is coded as
3=g(giant) 4=sg(subgiant) 5=d(dwarf) 6=sd(subdwarf) 7=D(degenerate)
C=spectral class is a color estimate by Luyten or Giclas
* the temperature class (no decimal point in the subclass, e.g. "M55"
should be understood as "M5.5")
* the MK luminosity class is a number meaning
1=II(giant) 2=III(giant), 3=III-IV, 4=IV(subgiant), 5=IV-V, 6=IV,V 7=V,
8=V-VI, 8=VI(subdwarf)
* the pecularities are coded as 1=p(peculiar), 2=e(emission), 4=m(metallic),
5=s(sharp lines), 6=ss(very sharp lines), 7=ep(emission+peculiar),
8=n(nebulous lines), 9=wk(weak-line)
Note (4): references of the spectral type:
C = Cape Observatory
E = Eggen (data for white dwarfs)
G = Giclas (Lowell Proper Motion survey)
H = Harvard (HD spectra)
K = Kuiper (many late-type stars)
L = Luyten (mostly color classes f, g, k, m given here as F, G, K, M with
a "C" preceding)
M = McCormick (mostly red dwarfs on Vyssotsky's program)
O = MK classifications on objective prism plates
W = Mount Wilson (mainly from the "General Catalog of Stellar Radial
Velocities, see III/21)
Note (5): Qualities of the absolute magnitude (p.e. means "probable error"):
A = p.e.≤0.08mag
B = 0.09mag≤p.e.≤0.15mag
C = 0.16mag≤p.e.≤0.25mag
D = 0.26mag≤p.e.≤0.35mag
E = 0.36mag≤p.e.≤0.50mag
F = p.e.>0.5mag
Note (6): the components of the spatial velocity a positive toward
* the galactic center (U)
* the galactic rotation (V)
* the North galactic pole (W)
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History:
* 1970: The catalogue was keypunched at Heidelberg Rechen-Institut
* 15-Dec-2015: description added at CDS (Francois Ochsenbein)
Data missing for star 297.0 was added.
(End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 15-Dec-2015