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J/MNRAS/357/265     BVI photometry of omega Cen red giants      (Sollima+, 2005)
On the discrete nature of the Red Giant Branch of omega Centauri.
    Sollima A., Ferraro F.R., Pancino E., Bellazzini M.
   <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 357, 265 (2005)>
   =2005MNRAS.357..265S
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, globular ; Stars, giant ; Photometry, UBVRI

Keywords: globular cluster: Omega Cen - stars: Population II -
          stars: evolution - techniques: photometry

Description:
    This catalogue of omega Cen is based on ground-based observations
    using FORS1@VLT and contains more than 100,000 stars covering an area
    of 9"x9" around the center of the cluster. The limiting magnitude is
    V≥21mag and the positional accuracy is better than 0.2" .

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
catalog.dat       74   106186   Omega Cen BVI catalogue


See also:
  J/A+A/420/173   : JK photometry of Omega Cen red giants (Sollima+, 2004)
  J/A+AS/115/297  : BVRI photometry of Central Field of Omega Cen (Lynga+, 1996)
  J/AJ/108/1350   : Omega Cen FUV photometry (Whitney+, 1994)
  J/AJ/127/958    : CCD BV photometry on Omega Cen (Rey+, 2004)
  J/MNRAS/250/314 : CCD photometry of omega Cen (Noble+ 1991)
  J/PASP/106/828  : BVRI photometry of Omega Cen (Walker 1994)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1-  6  I6    ---     Seq       Sequential number
   9- 14  F6.3  mag     Bmag      ?=0.000 Bessel B magnitude
  16- 20  F5.3  mag     e_Bmag    ?=0.000 Mean error on B magnitude
  23- 28  F6.3  mag     Vmag      ?=0.000 Bessel V magnitude
  30- 34  F5.3  mag     e_Vmag    ?=0.000 Mean error on V magnitude
  37- 42  F6.3  mag     Imag      ?=0.000 Bessel I magnitude
  44- 48  F5.3  mag     e_Imag    ?=0.000 Mean error on I magnitude
  51- 61  F11.7 deg     RAdeg     Right Ascension J2000 (degrees)
  64- 74  F11.7 deg     DEdeg     Declination J2000 (degrees)


Acknowledgements: Antonio Sollima, antonio.sollima(at)bo.astro.it

(End)                                        Patricia Vannier [CDS]  22-Nov-2004