J/AJ/89/1897        Southern stars of high radial velocity   (Stock+, 1984)

Southern stars of high radial velocity. Stock J., MacConnell D.J., Osborn W., Alvarez H. <Astron. J. 89, 1897 (1984)> =1984AJ.....89.1897S 1984AJ.....89.1897S
ADC_Keywords: Stars, high-velocity ; Radial velocities Abstract: Slit spectra have been obtained for 82 stars for which the objective-prism radial-velocity catalogue of Stock lists velocities over 130km/s in magnitude. The slit spectra reveal that many of these objects are F-K stars of low metal abundance, including some stars apparently as metal weak as any presently known. Radial velocities were derived from the slit spectra to examine the reliability of the large objective-prism velocities. The slit results confirm that the majority of the stars are indeed of high velocity, but show that the objective-prism technique tends to produce velocities systematically too large in magnitude by about 40km/s. It was also found that a large objective-prism velocity that is of low weight or from spectra near a plate edge is likely spurious. A search of the 10000 entries in Stock's catalogue yields 205 objects with radial-velocity magnitudes over 130km/s. Sixty-three of these velocities are not suspect because of low weight or edge proximity. An additional 14 stars of lower quality prism velocities were confirmed to have high velocities from the slit spectra. The high-velocity stars appear to form two distinct groups: metal-weak F-K stars and spectroscopically normal main-sequence A stars. Slit spectra were obtained on six nights in April 1978 utilizing the Boller and Chivens spectrograph and the Carnegie image tube at the Cassegrain focus of the 1-m Yale telescope at CTIO. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 100 83 Data for stars observed table2.dat 68 63 Probable high-velocity stars table3.dat 72 142 Other stars of large velocity in the Stock Velocity Survey (SVS, 1984RMxAA...9...77S 1984RMxAA...9...77S) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: V/55 : A catalogue of high-velocity stars (Roman, 1955) J/PASP/110/1434 : High-velocity stars radial velocities (Stock+, 1998) J/AJ/103/514 : High-velocity stars toward South Galactic Cap (Reid+ 1992) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 2 I2 h RAh Right ascension (1950) 4- 5 I2 min RAm Right ascension (1950) 7- 11 F5.2 s RAs Right ascension (1950) 13 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (1950) 14- 15 I2 deg DEd Declination (1950) 17- 18 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (1950) 20- 23 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (1950) 26- 31 A6 --- SpType Stock's spectral type 33- 36 F4.1 mag pgmag Photographic magnitude 38- 41 I4 km/s OPRV Objective-prism radial velocity 43 I1 --- o_OPRV Number of objective-prism plate pair used 45- 46 I2 --- w_OPRV Total weight of the velocity determination 48- 51 I4 km/s SlitRV Slit radial velocity 53- 54 I2 km/s e_SlitRV rms uncertainty on SlitRV 56- 58 I3 --- o_SlitRV Number of measured lines which went into the determination 60- 74 A15 --- SlitSpType Slit (MK) spectral type 77-116 A40 --- Com Identification from HD or CoD, and comments (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Identifications from HD or CoD, and other comments. Ten of the stars are in common with WUD, and we have given their "microdensitometer velocities". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 2 I2 h RAh Right ascension (1950) 4- 5 I2 min RAm Right ascension (1950) 7- 8 I2 s RAs Right ascension (1950) 11 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (1950) 12- 13 I2 deg DEd Declination (1950) 15- 16 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (1950) 18- 19 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (1950) 22- 25 F4.1 mag mag Photographic Magnitude 28- 33 A6 --- SpType Spectral type 35- 38 I4 km/s OPRV Objective-prism radial velocity 41 I1 --- o_OPRV Number of objective-prism plate pair used 44- 45 I2 --- w_OPRV Total weight of the velocity determination 47- 50 I4 km/s SlitRV ? Slit radial velocities 51 A1 --- n_SlitRV [v] Note on radial velocity 56- 68 A13 --- Notes Notes (1) 72 A1 --- Note [CO] Note for stars in table 3 only: C: Confirmed large velocities O: Other listed large velocities -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Notes: C: composite spectrum D: Pop. II giant from DDO photometry (Claria & Osborn, 1976PASP...88..463C 1976PASP...88..463C) E: plate edge may have influenced OPRV M: metal weak from slit spectra P: classified "pec" by Stock (Stock & Wroblewski, 1972PDAUC...2c..59S 1972PDAUC...2c..59S) W: microdensitometer OPRV by WUD (value in parentheses) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nomenclature notes: In Table 1: <[SMO84] HHMMSS.ss-DDMMSS.s> In Tables 2 and 3: <[SMO84] HHMMSS-DDMMSS> History: Prepared via OCR at CDS. In table 1, 12 52 26.39 -34 56 28.3 = HD 112211 instead of HD 12211
(End) James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS] 25-Jun-2001
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