J/PASP/107/299 Occultation Binaries Catalog (Mason 1995)
Catalog of Photoelectric Measures of Occultation Binary Stars
Mason B.D.
<Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 107, 299 (1995)>
=1995PASP..107..299M 1995PASP..107..299M (SIMBAD/NED reference)
ADC_Keywords: Occultations ; Stars, double and multiple
Keywords: catalogs: Occultations: Binaries, occultation; Binaries, visual
Abstract:
The observation of lunar occultation phenomena allows for the
determination of binary star data which can not always be obtained
using classical techniques. No complete catalog has been compiled
since that of Evans (1981a) in spite of a 99% increase in the
available data. This catalog presents a catalog of photoelectric
and occultation measures of binary and multiple systems complete
through 1994.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
occulcat.doc 72 149 Explanation of catalog
occulcat.dat 128 837 occultation objects and measures
notes.dat 70 24 Notes to occulcat.dat
refs.dat 80 110 All references
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Byte-by-byte description of file: occulcat.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 14 A14 --- Name ! Common Name
15- 28 A14 --- AddName Additional Name
29- 34 I6 --- HD/HDE ?HD or HDE Designation (if available)
36- 41 I6 --- SAO ?SAO Designation (if available)
43- 44 I2 h RAh Right Ascension hours (J2000.0)
45- 47 I3 0.1min RAdm Right ascension minutes (J2000.0)
48 A1 --- DE- Sign of declination (J2000.0)
49- 50 I2 deg DEd Declination degrees (J2000.0)
51- 52 I2 arcmin DEm Declination minutes (J2000.0)
54- 62 F9.4 yr EpochB of Observation in Besselian years
64- 72 F9.3 d EpochH of Observation in HJD-2400000
74- 78 F5.1 deg P.A. ?Position angle of direction vector
80- 86 F7.1 mas Sep. ?Vector separation in mas
88- 91 F4.1 mas e_Sep. ?Sigma in separation
93- 97 F5.2 mag Del-m ?Delta-m in magnitudes
99-102 F4.2 mag e_Del-m ?Sigma in delta-m
104-107 I4 nm Lambda ?Central wavelength of filter
109-111 I3 nm delta-L ?FWHM of filter
113 A1 --- Note Note detailed in file "notes.dat"
115-120 A6 --- Ref1 First Reference (see file "refs.dat")
123-128 A6 --- Ref2 Second reference (see file "refs.dat")
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: notes.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1 A1 --- Note Note designation, as in file "occulcat.dat"
4- 70 A67 --- Text Text of Note (eventually on several lines)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 6 A6 --- RefCode Reference code, as in file "occult.dat"
9- 80 A72 --- Text Text of reference
(eventually on several lines)
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Further information:
Additonal information on the construction of the catalog is provided
in occulcat.doc. The notes to the catalog are in occulcat.not and the
references in occulcat.ref.
History:
* 20-May-1998: notes.dat and refs.dat were transformed into data
tables (from original files occulcat.not and occulcat.ref)
at CDS (F. Ochsenbein)
(End) Brian Mason [Georgia State U] 06-Jul-1995