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Detailed Description of J/MNRAS/384/1277 :
H{alpha} emission line sources from IPHAS (Witham+, 2008)

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Note : this is the description file of the original catalog. This HTML page corresponds well to the original description, but some minor changes in the format may have been introduced in the FITS output files in order to allow for arithmetic operations on quantities such as coordinates and times. h:m:s and d:m:s units are normally converted into degrees, and YYYY-MM-DD into julian days.
Similarly, some slight changes may have been introduced in the units; the value given in the HTML files supersedes the value indicated in the ReadMe file for this catalogue.
J/MNRAS/384/1277    H{alpha} emission line sources from IPHAS    (Witham+, 2008)
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The IPHAS catalogue of H{alpha} emission-line sources in the northern
Galactic plane.
    Witham A.R., Knigge C., Drew J.E., Greimel R., Steeghs D., Gansicke B.T., 
    Groot P.J., Mampaso A.
   <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 384, 1277 (2008)>
   =2008MNRAS.384.1277W
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, emission ; Galactic plane ; Photometry, CCD ;
              Photometry, H-alpha
Keywords: surveys - catalogues - stars: emission-line, Be -
          Galaxy: stellar content

Abstract:
    We present the first catalogue of point-source H{alpha} emission line
    objects selected from the INT/WFC Photometric H{alpha} Survey of the
    Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS). In total, our catalogue contains 4853
    point sources that exhibit strong photometric evidence for H{alpha}
    emission. The catalogue is a conservative subset of the emitters
    present in IPHAS and it is likely that there are many more H{alpha}
    emitters present in the area of the Galactic Plane that IPHAS
    observes. Our selection criteria are designed to be conservative
    (rather than complete) in order to avoid a significant number of false
    positives in the catalogue. In line with this, we find that of the
    ~300 catalogue sources for which we have preliminary spectroscopic
    follow-up observations, more than 95% are confirmed as genuine
    emission-line sources.

Description:
    We present IPHAS positions and photometry for 4853 sources selected as
    having a H{alpha} excess from the photometry. The catalogue covers the
    magnitude range 13<=r'<=19.5mag, and includes sources in the northern
    hemisphere in the galactic latitude range -5<b<5°. The data from
    which the catalogue is derived come from IPHAS observations obtained
    from September 2003 to January 2007 and represents ~1500deg2 (80%)
    of the ultimate survey area.

File Summary:

FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
× 80 . This file × ReadMe 80 . This file × emitters.dat 87 4853 Positions and photometry for 4853 sources (table2 of the paper)
See also: III/205 : H-alpha Stars in Northern Milky Way (Kohoutek+ 1997) Byte-by-byte Description of file: emitters.dat
Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
1- 2 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000.0) 4- 5 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000.0) 7- 11 F5.2 s RAs Right ascension (J2000.0) 13 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000.0) 14- 15 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000.0) 17- 18 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000.0) 20- 23 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000.0) 25- 43 A19 --- IPHAS IPHAS source designation, JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s (1) 45- 50 F6.3 mag r'mag Sloan r' band magnitude 52- 56 F5.3 mag e_r'mag Sloan r' band magnitude error 58- 63 F6.3 mag r'-i' Sloan r'-i' colour index 65- 69 F5.3 mag e_r'-i' Sloan r'-i' colour index error 71- 76 F6.3 mag r'-Ha Sloan r'-H{alpha} colour index 78- 82 F5.3 mag e_r'-Ha Sloan r'-H{alpha} colour index error 84- 87 A4 --- Flag [cksmo ] Photometry/Cross-match flag (2)
Note (1): Sexagesimal, equatorial position-based source name in the form: JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s. The full naming convention for IPHAS sources has the form "IPHAS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s", where "J" indicates the position is J2000. The "IPHAS" prefix is not listed explicitly in the designation column. Note (2): This column is used to flag any special circumstances related to the photometry or if the object is in the vicinity of a Kohoutek & Wehmeyer (1999, Cat. III/205) object. Possible entries in this column are as follows: c = the object does not have consistent magnitudes in any of the IPHAS fields it has been observed in. This can be as a result of source variability or poor photometric calibration due to observations in less than ideal conditions. m = the object is located in a IPHAS field where manual selection of emitters took place. o = the object is located in a IPHAS field where manual selection of emitters took place and additionally the distribution of sources in the r'-i' vs r'-H{alpha} colour-colour plots in this field looked unusual. k = the object has been matched with a previously known H{alpha} emitter in the (Kohoutek & Wehmeyer, 1999, Cat. III/205) catalogue using a matching radius of up to 30arcsec. s = the object has been matched with a SIMBAD source.
Acknowledgements: Andrew Witham, arw_sent(at)yahoo.co.uk ================================================================================ (End) Andrew Witham [Southampton, UK], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 21-Dec-2007