III/13 Vyssotsky's Catalogues 1950.0 (Vyssotsky+ 1943-58) ================================================================================ Vyssotsky's Catalogues 1950.0 of Dwarf M stars found spectrophotometrically. Vyssotsky A.N. =1943ApJ....97..381V Vyssotsky A.N., Janssen E.M., Miller N.J., Walther S.J. & Walther M.E. =1946ApJ...104..234V Vyssotsky A.N., Mateer B.A. =1952ApJ...116..117V Vyssotsky A.N. =1956AJ.....61..201V Vyssotsky A.N. =1958AJ.....63..211V ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Spectral types; Stars, late-type ; Stars, dwarfs ; Description: This catalog includes the results of a complete survey of the McCormick objective prism plates for M dwarf stars. catalog.dat includes identifications, magnitudes, proper motions in RA and Dec, spectral types and parallaxes. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file catalog.dat 48 915 Catalog -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- MCC *[1,895] Star number (McCormick number) 4- 11 A8 --- Name ? BD or AC designation 12- 13 I2 h RAh Right ascension hours (1950) 14- 17 F4.1 min RAm Right ascension minutes (1950) 18 A1 --- DE- Sign of declination 19- 20 I2 deg DEd Declination degrees (1950) 21- 22 I2 arcmin DEm Declination minutes (1950) 23- 26 F4.1 mag Vmag Visual magnitude 27- 32 F6.3 arcsec/yr pmRA ?Proper motion in right ascension 33- 39 F7.3 arcsec/yr pmDE ?Proper motion in declination 40- 42 A3 --- Sp Spectral type (p or e suffix for peculiar or emission in byte 42) 44- 48 F5.3 arcsec Plx ? Parallax -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note on MCC: there are only 895 different stars, some stars having different spectra and/or motions when they were observed on several plates. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: Vyssotsky A.N. 1943, Astrophys. J. 97, 381. Vyssotsky A.N., Janssen E.M., Miller N.J., Walther S.J. & Walther M.E. 1946, Astrophys. J. 104, 234. Vyssotsky A.N., Mateer B.A. 1952, Astrophys. J. 116, 117. Vyssotsky A.N. 1956, Astron. J. 61, 201. Vyssotsky A.N. 1958, Astron. J. 63, 211. ================================================================================ (End) Julie Anne Watko and N. G. Roman [SSDOO/ADC] 06-Nov-1997