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III/63B             Revised Catalogue of Rotational Velocities (Uesugi+ 1982)
Revised Catalogue of Stellar Rotational Velocities
     UESUGI A., FUKUDA I.
    <Department of Astronomy, Kyito Univ., Japan (1982)>
ADC_Keywords: Rotational velocities


Description (prepared by Wayne H. Warren Jr., October 1983):
    The machine-readable "Revised Catalogue of Stellar Rotational
    Velocities" provides mean v.sin(i) data on the old Slettebak system
    (Slettebak 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956; Slettebak and Howard 1955) for 6472
    stars. The catalog results from the review, analysis and
    transformation of 11460 data from 102 sources. Included in the
    computerized version are star identification (major catalog number,
    name if the star has one, or cluster identification, etc.), a mean
    projected rotational velocity, and a list of source references. This
    version of the machine-readable catalog is comprehensive and
    supersedes the earlier compilation of Uesugi and Fukuda (1970).

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
catalog           80     6472   The Catalogue of Rotational Velocities
refs              80      109   The References


Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   1-  6  I6     ---     HD       [1/359083]? Henry Draper Catalog (HD) number
   7-  9  A3     ---     m_HD     HD component letters or additional numbers
  10- 23  A14    ---     Name     Common name of the object (1)
  25- 26  A2     ---    l_RotVel  [<≥ ] Indicates RotVel is upper/lower limit
  27- 29  I3     km/s    RotVel   Projected rotational velocity, v.sin(i)
  30- 31  A2     ---    u_RotVel  [: ] ':' if RotVel uncertain,
                                      '::' if very uncertain
      32  A1     ---     NumObs   Number of observations, continued with
                                    A=10; B=11; C=12, etc.
  33- 36  A4     ---     Ref1     Reference code (see refs)
  37- 40  A4     ---     Ref2     Reference code (see refs)
  41- 44  A4     ---     Ref3     Reference code (see refs)
  45- 48  A4     ---     Ref4     Reference code (see refs)
  49- 52  A4     ---     Ref5     Reference code (see refs)
  53- 56  A4     ---     Ref6     Reference code (see refs)
  57- 60  A4     ---     Ref7     Reference code (see refs)
  61- 64  A4     ---     Ref8     Reference code (see refs)
  65- 68  A4     ---     Ref9     Reference code (see refs)
  69- 72  A4     ---     Ref10    Reference code (see refs)
  73- 76  A4     ---     Ref11    Reference code (see refs)
  77- 80  A4     ---     Ref12    Reference code (see refs)

Note (1): Name of star, e.g.  Flamsteed and/ or Bayer designation and
    constellation abbreviation, variable-star name, cluster identification
    and number, Durchmusterung number for non-HD stars. Parenthesized
    letters denote lower case.


Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   1-  4  A4     ---     RefCode  Reference code from table RotVel_Data
                                   (blank for continuation lines)
   5- 80  A76    ---     Text     Reference


Historical Notes:
  * October 1982, ADC/NSSDC (Wayne H. Warren Jr.)
    A magnetic tape containing the "Revised Catalogue of Stellar
    Rotational Velocities" was received from the Astronomical Data Center,
    Japan, on 4 March 1983. Minor modifications, as described below, were
    made to the data file in order to effect a more homogeneous format
    consistent with other computerized catalogs.
    1.  The HD field contained a zero for every non-HD star; these were
        converted to blanks.
    2.  The abbreviations "BD", "CD", and "CP" were added to
        Durchmusterung (DM) numbers where they were absent. The
        abbreviation CP already occurred for CPD stars in the zones
        -22 degrees to -52 degrees where CD numbers are ordinarily
        used (following the HD convention).  An unknown character (not
        in the published version) occurred in the Name field after all
        zone numbers for DM identifications.  All occurrences of this
        character were changed to blanks.
 * October 1991: catalogue prepared (Lee E. Brotzmann) for the
   "Selected Astronomical Catalogs" Vol. 1 CD-ROM, directory:
    /spectro/rotvel
 * September 1995: catalogue documentation standardized at CDS

Acknowledgments:
    Appreciation is expressed to K. Sadakane of Osaka University for
    personally transmitting our request for a copy of the tape to the
    Astronomical Data Center, Japan, and to Y. Terashita and A. Hayashi
    for preparing and supplying the magnetic tape.

References:
  Fukuda, I. 1982, Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 94, 271.
  Slettebak, A. 1949, Astrophys. J. 110, 498.
  Slettebak, A. 1954, Astrophys. J. 119, 146.
  Slettebak, A. 1955, Astrophys. J. 121, 653.
  Slettebak, A. 1956, Astrophys. J. 124, 173.
  Slettebak, A. and Howard, R. F. 1955, Astrophys. J. 121, 102.
  Uesugi, A. and Fukuda, I. 1970, A Catalog of Rotational Velocities
     of the Stars, Mem. Fac. Sci. Kyoto Univ., Ser. Phys.,
     Astrophys., Geophys., Chem. 33, 205.
  Uesugi, A. and Fukuda, I. 1981, in Data for Science and Technology,
    Proc. 7th International CODATA Conf., ed. P.S. Glaeser (Oxford:
    Pergamon Press), p. 201.
(End)                                     Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]  08-Sep-1995