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Detailed Description of B/mk :
Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (Skiff, 2009-2016)
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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.
B/mk Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (Skiff, 2009-2016)
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General Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (Version 2013-Jul)
Skiff B.A.
<Lowell Observatory (October 2014)>
=2014yCat....1.2023S
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ADC_Keywords: Spectral types ; MK spectral classification
Description:
This file contains spectral classifications for stars collected from
the literature, serving as a continuation of the compilations produced
by the Jascheks, by Kennedy, and by Buscombe. The source of each
spectral type is indicated by a standard 19-digit bibcode citation.
These papers of course should be cited in publication, not this
compilation.
The stars are identified either by the name used in each publication
or by a valid SIMBAD identifier. Some effort has been made to
determine accurate (~1" or better) coordinates for equinox J2000 (and
epoch 2000 if possible), and these serve as a secondary identifier. To
the extent possible with current astrometric sources, the components
of double stars and stars with composite spectra are shown as separate
entries.
Magnitudes are provided as an indication of brightness, but these data
are not necessarily accurate, as they often derive from photographic
photometry or rough estimates.
The file includes only spectral types determined from spectra (viz.
line and band strengths or ratios), omitting those determined from
photometry (e.g. DDO, Vilnius) or inferred from broadband colors or
spectral energy distributions.
The classifications include MK types as well as types not strictly on
the MK system (white dwarfs, Wolf-Rayet, etc), and in addition simple
HD-style temperature types. Luminosity classes in the early Mount
Wilson style (e.g. 'd' for dwarf, 'g' for giant) and other similar
schemes have been converted to modern notation. Since a citation is
provided for each entry, the source paper should be consulted for
details about classification schemes, spectral dispersion, and
instrumentation used.
System-defining primary MK standard stars are included from the last
lists by Morgan and Keenan, and are flagged by a + sign in column 83.
The early-type standards comprise the 1973 "dagger standards"
(1973ARA&A..11...29M) and stars from the Morgan, Abt, and Tapscott
atlas (1978rmsa.book.....M). Standards from Table I of the Morgan &
Abt 'MKA' paper (1972AJ.....77...35M) not appearing in the two later
lists are added. Keenan made continual adjustments to the standards
lists up to the time of his death. Thus the late-type standards
comprise those marked as high-weight standards in the 1989 Perkins
catalogue (1989ApJS...71..245K = III/150); the revised S-type
standards in collaboration with Boeshaar (1980ApJS...43..379K); plus
the carbon standards and class IIIb 'clump giants' in collaboration
with Barnbaum (1996ApJS..105..419B and 1999ApJ...518..859K). In
addition, I have made use of the final types by Keenan up to January
2000 shown at the Ohio State Web site
(http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/MKCool), accessed in autumn 2003.
Though the present file contains all the stars in these lists, only
those marked as standards are flagged as such. Garrison's list of MK
'anchor points' might also be consulted in this regard
(1994mpyp.conf....3G, and
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~garrison/mkstds.html).
The catalogue includes for the first time results from many
large-scale objective-prism spectral surveys done at Case, Stockholm,
Crimea, Abastumani, and elsewhere. The stars in these surveys were
usually identified only on charts or by other indirect means, and have
been overlooked heretofore because of the difficulty in recovering the
stars. More complete results from these separate publications,
including notes and identifications, have been made available to the
CDS, and are kept at the Lowell Observatory ftp area
(ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/bas/starcats). Not all of these stars are
present in SIMBAD.
As a 'living catalogue', an attempt will be made to keep up with
current literature, and to extend the indexing of citations back in
time.
File Summary:
FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
× 80 . This file
× ReadMe 80 . This file
× mktypes.dat 141 888588 The catalog of MK Spectral Types (Version 2014-May)
× surveyed.txt 96 804 List of surveyed articles
See also:
III/18 : Stellar Spectra classified in the MK system (Jaschek+, 1963)
III/42 : Selected MK Spectral Types (Jaschek, 1978)
III/78 : MK Classification Catalogue Extension (Kennedy, 1983)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: mktypes.dat
Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
1- 19 A19 --- Bibcode Publication Source
22- 48 A27 --- Name Star name as published or valid
SIMBAD name (Lortet et al.)
50- 51 I2 h RAh Right Ascension (J2000) hour
53- 54 I2 min RAm Right Ascension (J2000) minute
56- 60 F5.2 s RAs [0/60] Right Ascension (J2000) second
62 A1 --- DE- Declination sign
63- 64 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) degree
66- 67 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) minute
69- 72 F4.1 arcsec DEs [0/60] Declination (J2000) second
74 A1 --- rc Source of coordinates (1)
76- 80 F5.2 mag Mag ? Magnitude, see passband in n_Mag
81- 82 A2 --- n_Mag Color passband of magnitude (2)
83 A1 --- n_SpType [+] if spectral type is an MK standard
84-109 A26 --- SpType spectral type (MK, HD, or other)
111-141 A31 --- Remarks Comments (3)
Note (1): sources of astrometry are numbered as follows:
A = USNO-A2.0 (1998USNO2.C......0M, Cat. I/252)
B = Bordeaux meridian circle (2001A&A...376..325R, Cat. I/272)
+ PM2000 (2006A&A...448.1235D, Cat. I/300)
b = USNO-B1.0 (2003AJ....125..984M, Cat. I/284)
c = AC2000 (1998AJ....115.1212U, Cat. I/275)
C = Carlsberg CMC11 (1999yCat.1256.....C, Cat. I/256)
+ Carlsberg CMC12 (2002A&A...395..347E, Cat. I/282)
+ Carlsberg CMC14 (2005yCat.1304.....C, Cat. I/304)
+ Carlsberg CMC15 (2011yCat.1327.....C, Cat. I/327)
D = DENIS (1999A&A...349..236E, Cat. b/denis)
E = Edinburgh SuperCOSMOS (http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/obj.html)
F = USNO-Flagstaff transit circle (1999AJ....118.2488S, Cat. I/263)
G = GSC-ACT (1999yCat.1255.....G, Cat. I/255)
g = GSC-2.2 (2001yCat.1271.....S, Cat. I/271)
+ GSC-2.3 (2008AJ....136..735L, Cat. I/305)
i = IRSF (2007PASJ...59..615K, Cat. II/288)
I = IPHAS DR2 (2014yCat.2321....0B, Cat. II/321)
L = LSPM (2005AJ....129.1483L, Cat. I/298)
M = 2MASS second, all-sky, or 6x releases (2006AJ....131.1163S,
Cat. II/241, II/246, II/281)
s = SkyView estimate (±2")
S = Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6,7,8,9 (2008ApJS..175..297A, Cat. II/282)
T = all Hipparcos/Tycho-related catalogues, including in approximate
order of preference:
+ Tycho-2 (2000A&A...357..367H, Cat. I/259)
+ TDSC (2002A&A...384..180F, Cat. I/276)
+ TRC (1998A&A...335L..65H and 1999A&AS..136..491K, Cat. I/250)
+ ACT (1998AJ....115.2161U, Cat. I/246)
+ Hipparcos2 (2007A&A...474..653V, Cat. I/311)
+ Hipparcos (1997HIP...C......0E, Cat. I/239/hip_main)
+ Tycho-1 (1997HIP...C......0E, Cat. I/239/tyc_main)
U = UCAC1, UCAC2, UCAC4, or URAT1 (2000AJ....120.2131Z,
Cat. I/268, I/289, I/322, I/329)
u = UKIDSS DR6 (2007MNRAS.379.1599L, Cat. II/316)
+ UKIDSS DR7 (Cat. II/310)
+ UKIDSS DR8 (Cat. II/314)
+ UKIDSS DR9 (Cat. II/319)
W = WISE (Cutri et al 2011, Cat. II/311)
Y = Yale SPM (1998AJ....116.2556P, Cat. I/277)
z = MCPS catalogue (2002AJ....123..855Z, Cat. J/AJ/123/855)
- = other (copied from source paper, derived from x,y coordinates, etc.)
Note (2): passbands are usually standard Johnson-Cousins BVRI, or
photographic equivalents, near-infrared J and K, Sloan-Gunn g or z.
Note (3): comments are often greatly compressed; some common phrases are:
brtr = brighter
close pair = nearly-equal pairs usually < 0".5 separation observed together
comp = companion or composite (clear from context)
cpm pair = common proper motion double star
DIB = diffuse interstellar band
em = emission
f = faint
fntr = fainter
grp = group
gx = galaxy
ID = identification
interst = interstellar
lg pm = large proper motion (usually > 0".15 per year)
vlg pm = very large proper motion (> 2" per year)
lum = luminosity (class)
max = maximum (brightness)
met, mets = metals, metallic lines
min = minimum (brightness)
nr = near
opt pair = 'optical' double star, i.e. not common proper motion
pec = peculiar
prob = probably
sl = slight, slightly
spec var = spectrum variable
str = strong
uncer = uncertain
var = variable
wk = weak
Nrn = northern
Nmost = northernmost (and similar)
Ern = eastern
Srn = southern
Wrn = western
NErn = northeastern
NWrn = northwestern
SErn = southeastern
SWrn = southwestern
Acknowledgements:
I have received much help on various aspects of preparing this
catalogue from Larry Wasserman (Lowell Obs), Gerard Jasniewicz (CDS),
Francois Ochsenbein (CDS), Fabienne Woelfel (CDS), Pascal Dubois (CDS),
Jack MacConnell (STScI), Harold Corwin (IPAC), Cameron Reed (Alma College),
Brian Mason (USNO), Ernst Paunzen (Univ Wien), Thurburn Barker (PARI),
Chris Corbally (Vatican Obs), Richard Gray (Appalachian State Univ),
Mati Morel, Chris Watson (AAVSO), John Greaves, Wayne Osborn,
Erik Anderson, Bill Buscombe, Billy Bidelman, Nancy Houk, as well
as librarians Antoinette Beiser and Lauren Amundson (Lowell Obs),
Brenda Corbin (USNO), and Suzanne Laloe (IAP-Paris), plus numerous
authors whose work is compiled here.
History:
* 19-May-2003: Prepared by Brian Skiff (Lowell Observatory) (58783 records)
* 18-Jul-2003: Several errors corrected by the author (63865 records)
* 31-May-2004: Updated and completed version (III/233A, 107968 records)
* 06-Jun-2005: Updated and completed version (III/233B, 156824 records)
* 23-Oct-2007: Updated (B/mk), now 272640 records
* 07-Jan-2008: Updated (B/mk), now 283486 records
* 19-Feb-2009: Updated (B/mk), now 333826 records
* 14-Jul-2009: Updated (B/mk), now 347592 records
* 05-Oct-2009: Updated (B/mk), now 361152 records
* 22-Mar-2010: Updated (B/mk), now 423055 records
* 28-Dec-2010: Updated (B/mk), now 433169 records
* 14-Sep-2011: Updated (B/mk), now 452890 records
* 21-Feb-2012: Updated (B/mk), now 534091 records
* 17-Jul-2012: Updated (B/mk), now 557746 records
* 13-Jan-2013: Updated (B/mk), now 604090 records
* 06-May-2013: Updated (B/mk), now 636441 records
* 03-Feb-2014: Updated (B/mk), now 657452 records
* 04-May-2014: Updated (B/mk), now 682075 records
* 21-Oct-2014: Updated (B/mk), now 716029 records
* 15-Dec-2014: Updated (B/mk), now 716029 records
* 23-Jun-2015: Updated (B/mk), now 760007 records
* 02-feb-2016: Updated (B/mk), now 798203 records
* 01-aug-2017: Updated (B/mk), now 861868 records
* 18-dec-2018: Updated (B/mk)
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(End) Brian Skiff [Lowell Obs.], Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 21-Oct-2014