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J/other/Ap/47.305      Circular polarization of starlight      (Eritsian+, 2004)
Circular polarization of starlight.
    Eritsian M.A.
   <Astrophysics, 47, 305-312 (2004)>
   =2004Ap.....47..305E
ADC_Keywords: Polarization

Keywords: stars: circular polarization


Description:
    Of the 7500 stars cited in the Catalog of starlight polarization (Cat.
    II/34), those which satisfy the condition P≤0.3% and AV≥0.5mag
    are selected. It is presumed that the selected stars (n=216) have
    circularly polarized light.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table1.dat        47      215   List of stars with expected circular polarization


See also:
  II/34  : Polarization Catalogue (Mathewson+ 1978)
  II/226 : Stellar polarization catalogs agglomeration (Heiles, 2000)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1- 11  A11   ---     Name      Star name
  13- 14  I2    h       RAh       ? Hour of Right Ascension (B1950)
  16- 19  F4.1  min     RAm       ? Minute of Right Ascension (B1950)
      21  A1    ---     DE-       Sign of the Declination (B1950)
  22- 23  I2    deg     DEd       ? Degree of Declination (B1950)
  25- 26  I2    arcmin  DEm       ? Arcmin of Declination (B1950)
  28- 31  F4.1  mag     vmag      Visual stellar magnitude
  33- 38  A6    ---     SpType    MK spectral class
  40- 42  F3.1  mag     Av        Interstellar absorption
  44- 47  F4.1  mag     m-M       ? Distance modulus


History:
    From electronic version of the journal
    In table1.dat, -58321 was corrected into HD 58321.
  * 28-Nov-2005: missing star HD 31910 (319104 in the paper), added in 
                 table1.dat; positions of HD 11960 added in table1.dat
(End)                                       Marianne Brouty [CDS]    30-Aug-2005