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III/249        Stellar radial velocities bibliographic catalog (Malaroda+, 2006)
Bibliographic catalogue of stellar radial velocities (1991-2006.5).
    Malaroda S., Levato H., Galliani S.
   <Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (CASLEO), San Juan, Argentina (2006)>
ADC_Keywords: Radial velocities ; References

Keywords: catalogues - stars: kinematics - techniques: radial velocities


Description:
    The present catalogue is the twelfth version and the continuation of
    the first one (1991-1994) published by Malaroda et al.
    (2000A&AS..144....1M). Since the 2005 version, we present the
    catalogue in a database for helping the search. We have revised the
    issues of the journals listed in Table 1, for the period
    1991-June2006. It is not a complete list of all journals devoted to
    astronomical literature, but they are the most important ones and
    those available at our libraries. We prepared a plain ASCII file with
    the object identifications as provided by the authors. This file was
    transferred to the SIMBAD database, and, using the proper for mats and
    filters, we have retrieved the identification for each object
    according to the rules of SIMBAD. In the same way we have also
    retrieved: the J2000 coordinates, the V magnitude, and the spectral
    classification for each object.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
catalog.dat      129    82275   Stellar radial velocities bibliographic catalogue
notes.dat         87       77   Notes (description of the types)


See also:
   III/184 : 3rd Bibliog. Cat. of Stellar Radial Vel. (Barbier-Brossat+, 1994)
   III/190 : WEB Catalog of Radial Velocities (Duflot+ 1995)


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

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1- 29  A29   ---     Ident     Identification (1)
  31- 32  I2    h       RAh       ? Right ascension J2000.0 (2)
  34- 38  F5.2  min     RAm       [0,60]? Right ascension J2000.0
      40  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign J2000.0
  41- 42  I2    deg     DEd       ? Declination J2000.0
  44- 47  F4.1  arcmin  DEm       [0,60]? Declination J2000.0
  49- 54  F6.3  mag     Vmag      ? Visual magnitude (from Simbad)
      55  A1    ---     u_Vmag    [:?] Uncertainty flag on Vmag
  56- 58  A3    ---     n_Vmag    [b V3 V? R VAR]
  60- 69  A10   ----    SpType    Spectral type and luminosity class (3)
  70- 79  F10.4 km/s    RV        ? Heliocentric Radial velocity (4)
  80- 81  A2    ---     u_RV      [: v?] Uncertainty flag on RV
      84  A1    ---     l_Nobs    Limit flag on Nobs
  85- 89  I5    --      Nobs      ? Number of individual observations for a
                                    particular object
      90  A1    ---     f_RV      [?#] (#: erroneous RV?; ? when Nobs unknown)
  92- 98  A7    ---     Type      Nature of the star (5)
 103-109  A7    ---     R/RP/D    Dispersion, resolving power or resolution (6)
 111-129  A19   ---     r_RV      Reference (BibCode)

Note (1): We have preferred for identification the  HD, CD or CPD numbers,
     in that order. Stars in clusters are indicated with the cluster's name
     and the number of the stars according to the primary identification
     paper for that particular cluster, found either at SIMBAD or
     Mermilliod's database (which was accessed through the web of the
     Geneva Observatory).
Note (2): Right ascension is given to the tenth of a minute and has been
     retrieved from SIMBAD. Declination is given to the minute and has been
     retrieved from SIMBAD.
Note (3): Spectra have been retrieved from the SIMBAD database.
     In some cases, when the number of symbols is large, the spectral 
     type has been truncated.
Note (4): For each object we have included the average radial velocity
     provided by the author. If the number of radial velocity measurements
     is more than 1, and an average has not been calculated by the author,
     we have not included any radial velocity at all. If the star is a
     spectroscopic binary, for which an orbit has been computed, then the
     systemic radial velocity is quoted in this column.
Note (5): We have included in this column an acronym to indicate
     the nature of the star, when mentioned by the author.
     All types are explained in notes.dat file
Note (6): We have included in this column one of the above parameters.
     It is not possible to confuse the resolving power with any of the
     other two parameters because, in general, resolving power is a
     relatively large number compared with dispersion or resolution. As in
     the case of the dispersion or resolution, an ambiguity may arise, we
     have added an R to the number when it refers to the resolution.
      COR = radial velocity was derived through cross correlation
            techniques (like Coravel, for example)
      REL = relative velocity
      SEV = more than one resolving power or resolution have been used
       OP = objective prism observations
      IUE = radial velocities were derived from observations obtained with
            the International Ultraviolet Explorer (See cat. VI/99)


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

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1-  7  A7    ---     Type      Type of the star
  11- 87  A77   ---     Note      Explanation of the type


Acknowledgements:
    Hugo Levato, hlevato(at)casleo.gov.ar
(End)                                        Patricia Vannier [CDS]  14-Aug-2006