J/AJ/93/663         Carbon stars from IRAS-LRS spectra   (Little-Marenin+, 1987)

New carbon stars identified from low-resolution IRAS spectra. Little-Marenin I.R., Ramsay M.E., Stephenson C.B., Little S.J., Price S.D. <Astron. J., 93, 663-668 (1987)> =1987AJ.....93..663L 1987AJ.....93..663L
ADC_Keywords: Stars, carbon Description: The authors have classified 176 IRAS sources as carbon stars based on the presence of the SiC emission feature at 11.2 micron in their low-resolution spectra (LRS). Accurate positions were found by B. Skiff (Lowell Obs.), using visible-light (DSS), 2MASS, and WISE images to identify the carbon stars. Many of the stars are large-amplitude variables, whether designated or not, so sometimes the magnitudes are rounded to a whole magnitude so as to be representative of the brightness. Some notes are added about close companions and two stars where the existing position is significantly in error. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file stars.dat 72 176 New carbon stars (from table1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: III/197 : IRAS Low Resolution Spectra (IRAS team, 1987) Byte-by-byte Description of file: stars.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2- 4 I3 --- Seq [1/176] Running number, <[LRS87] NNN> in Simbad 9- 10 I2 h RAh Right Ascension J2000 (hours) 12- 13 I2 min RAm Right Ascension J2000 (minutes) 15- 19 F5.2 s RAs Right Ascension J2000 (seconds) 21 A1 --- DE- Declination J2000 (sign) 22- 23 I2 deg DEd Declination J2000 (degrees) 25- 26 I2 arcmin DEm Declination J2000 (minutes) 28- 31 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination J2000 (seconds) 33 A1 --- s [MUW] Source of position: M=2MASS (II/246), U=UCAC2 (I/289) W=WISE (II/311) 35- 38 F4.1 mag mag Magnitude, generally V (see filter in "n_mag") 40 A1 --- n_mag [VIJK] Filter for magnitude 44- 72 A29 -- Com Comments about binarity or problems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: Prepared by B. Skiff (Lowell Obs.)
(End) Brian Skiff [Lowell Obs.], Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 30-Jan-2013
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