J/A+AS/99/31     Identification of C stars in IRAS    (Guglielmo+ 1993)
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Identification of 106 new infrared carbon stars in the IRAS Point Source
Catalog: Near-infrared photometry and their space distribution in the Galaxy
     GUGLIELMO F., EPCHTEIN N., LE BERTRE T., FOUQUE P., HRON J.,
     KERSCHBAUM F., LEPINE J.R.D.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 99, 31 (1993)>
    =1993A&AS...99...31G
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Keywords: stars: carbon, circumstellar matter, mass-loss -
          stars: asymptotic giant branch - galaxy: stellar content -
          infrared: stars

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table3a          118       84   Observations of stars in sample 1
table3b           99       76   Associations for stars in sample 1
table4a          119      680   Observations of stars in sample 2
table4b           99      294   Associations for stars in sample 2
table5a          118      303   Observations of stars in sample 3a
table5b          110      132   Associations for stars in sample 3a
table6a          118      195   Observations of stars in sample 3b
table6b           99       18   Associations for stars in sample 3b
table7a          118       70   Associations of stars in sample 3c
table7b           99        4   Associations for stars in sample 3c


Byte-by-byte Description of file:  table3a  table4a  table5a  table6a  table7a

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   2- 11  A10    ---     IRAS     IRAS name
      13  I1     ---     P        epoch of observation (see table2)
  20- 24  F5.2   mag     K        K magnitude
  28- 32  F5.2   mag     J-K      []? J-K colour
  39- 42  F4.2   mag     H-K      []? H-K colour
  49- 52  F4.2   mag     K-L      K-L colour
  58- 62  F5.2   mag     K-M      []? K-M colour
  69- 72  F4.2   mag     [12-25]  infrared [12-25] colour
  82- 86  F5.2   mag     [25-60]  []? infrared [25-60] colour
  97-101  A5     ---     VH       VH identification (1)
 106-108  A3     ---     Val      "Valinhos" classification (2)
 116-118  A3     ---     Id       I: previous identifications in usual
                                     catalogues, as detailed in table3b
                                  O: stars that have also been observed in a
                                     follow-up spectroscopic programme

Note (1): van der Veen W., Habimg H.J. 1998, A&A 194, 125

Note (2): Epchtein N. et al. 1987, A&AS 71, 39
 In table4a, 06263-0700 is a triple system composed of BS2356, BS2357 and BS2358


Byte-by-byte Description of file:  table3b  table4b  table5b  table6b  table7b

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   2- 11  A10    ---     IRAS     IRAS denomination
  13- 21  A9     ---     GCVS     GCVS denomination
  24- 28  A5     ---     RAFGL    RAFGL denomination
  33- 38  I6     ---     IRC      []? IRC denomination
      42  A1     ---     n_Step.  [S]
  43- 46  I4     ---     Step.    []? 2th edition of A general Catalog of Cool
                                      Carbon stars (1) or A General Catalog of
                                      S stars (2) if n_Step. = S
  50- 99  A50    ---     Name     Other denominations. WKSB91 indicates that the
                                  is classified in the extension of the LRS (3)

Note (1): Stephenson C.B., 1989, "A General Catalogue of Cool Galactic
     Carbon Stars", second ed., Publications of the Warner and Swasey 
     Observatory, vol. 3, No. 2  (Catalogue: III/156)
Note (2): Stephenson C.B., 1976, A General Catalogue of S stars,
     Publications of the Warner and Swasey Observatory, vol.2, No. 2
     (Catalogue: III/60)
Note (3): Volk et al., 1991, ApJs 77, 607



Table 2: Journal of observations
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     Epoch                        No
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     08-09-1989 to 17-09-1989     1
     05-06-1990 to 14-06-1990     2
     01-07-1990 to 10-07-1990     3
     28-12-1990 to 04-01-1991     4
     20-01-1991 to 25-01-1991     5
     31-01-1991 to 09-02-1991     6
     04-04-1991 to 08-04-1991     7
     25-04-1991 to 03-05-1991     8
     24-06-1991 to 05-07-1991     9
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Courtesy: Francois Guglielmo 

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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   10-May-1994