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J/A+AS/109/171      Blue horizontal branch stars catalog          (Flynn+, 1995)
A catalog of blue horizontal branch stars in the outer galactic halo
       FLYNN C., SOMMER-LARSEN J., CHRISTENSEN P.R., HAWKINS M.R.S.
      <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 109, 171 (1995)>
      =1995A&AS..109..171F      (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
ADC_Keywords: Stars, blue; Stars, horizontal branch; Regional catalogs;
              Galactic pole, south
Keywords: stars: horizontal-branch - Galaxy: halo, kinematics and dynamics


File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table1            75       24   F117 field (l = 270deg, b = -45deg)
table2            75       46   22h field (l = 38deg, b = -51deg)
table3            75       39   SA287 field (l = 0deg, b = -47deg)
table4            75       47   South Galactic Pole field


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1 table2 table3 table4

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   1- 10  A10    ---     ID       Star name
  12- 13  I2     h       RAh      Right ascension 1950.0
  15- 16  I2     min     RAm      Right ascension 1950.0
  18- 21  F4.1   s       RAs      Right ascension 1950.0
      23  A1     ---     DE-      Declination sign
  24- 25  I2     deg     DEd      Declination 1950.0
  27- 28  I2     arcmin  DEm      Declination 1950.0
  30- 31  I2     arcsec  DEs      Declination 1950.0
  33- 37  F5.2   mag     Vmag     V magnitude
  39- 43  F5.2   mag     B-V      B-V colour
      45  I1     ---     o_B-V    []? Number of observations in B and V
      46  A1     ---     noB-V  A '*' indicates BV data derived from
                                   transformed Stroemgren photometry
  47- 48  I2     ---     DM       Hydrogen line width index
  50- 52  A3     ---     Class    Classification
                                   BHB = blue horizontal branch, ? = unknown
  54- 57  I4     km/s    RV       Heliocentric radial velocity
  59- 62  F4.1   kpc     Dhel     []? Estimated heliocentric distance
  64- 67  F4.1   kpc     Dgal     []? Estimate galactocentric distance
  69- 75  A7     ---     Note     Notes on the observations (1)

Note (1): Numbers indicate the sources or dates of observations of the
   photometry, while the letters indicate the sources or dates of observation
   of the spectroscopy.
   1: photoelectric photometry from Flynn and Sommer-Larsen (1998)
   2: CCD photometry from Flynn, Sommer-Larsen and Christensen (1994)
   3: new CCD data from the ESO 1.5m (Sept. 1990, Sept. 1991 and Aug. 1992)
   A: data from Sommer-Larsen and Christensen (1986)
   B: data from Sommer-Larsen and Christensen (1987)
   C: data from Sommer-Larsen, Christensen and Carter (1989)
   D: ESO 2.2m, Nov. 1987
   E: MSSSO 2.3m, Aug. 1998
   F: ESO 2.2m, Sep. 1998
   G: ESO 2.2m, Aug. 1989
   H: ESO 2.2m, Nov. 1990
   I: ESO 3.5m, New Technology Telescope, Sep. 1991 and Aug. 1992


References:
  Flynn C. and Sommer-Larsen J. 1988, MNRAS 235, 175
  Flynn C., Sommer-Larsen J. and Christensen P.R. 1994, MNRAS 267, 77
  Sommer-Larsen J. and Christensen P.R. 1986, MNRAS 219, 537
  Sommer-Larsen J. and Christensen P.R. 1987, MNRAS 225, 499
  Sommer-Larsen J., Christensen P.R. and Carter D.C. 1989, MNRAS 238, 225
(End)                                        Patricia Bauer  [CDS]   21-Sep-1994