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Detailed Description of V/70A :
Nearby Stars, Preliminary 3rd Version (Gliese+ 1991)

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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.
V/70A               Nearby Stars, Preliminary 3rd Version  (Gliese+ 1991)
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Preliminary Version of the Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars
     GLIESE W., JAHREISS H.
    <Astron. Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg (1991)>
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, nearby


Description:
    The present version of the CNS3 contains all known stars within
    25 parsecs of the Sun. It depends mainly on a preliminary version
    (Spring 1989) of the new General Catalogue of Trigonometric
    Parallaxes (YPC) prepared by Dr. William F. van Altena (Yale
    University).

    The catalogue contains every star with trigonometric parallax
    greater than or equal to 0.0390 arcsec, even though it may be
    evident from photometry or for other reasons that the star has a
    larger distance. For red dwarf stars, new color-magnitude
    calibrations for broad-band colors were carried out and applied.
    For white dwarfs, the recipes of McCook and Sion were applied
    (=1985ApJS...65..603M). Stroemgren photometry was used (not yet
    systematically) for early-type stars and for late dwarfs, the
    latter supplied by E. H. Olsen from Copenhagen Observatory
    (private communication).

    Contrary to the CNS2 (Gliese 1969) trigonometric parallaxes
    and photometric or spectroscopic parallaxes were not combined.
    The resulting parallax in the present version is always the
    trigonometric parallax -- if the relative error of the
    trigonometric parallax is smaller than 14 percent. The resulting
    parallax is the photometric or spectroscopic parallax only if no
    trigonometric parallax is available or if the standard error of
    the trigonometric parallax is considerably larger.

Nomenclature Note:
    All new nearby stars have not been numbered, and only "NN" appears in
    the column "Name". There are therefore problems to designate these new
    stars, as e.g. in Reference =1994ApJS...93..287W . It is recommended
    for such stars to use one of the alternate designations from columns
    "Giclas", "LHS", "OtherName" or "Remarks".
    NOTE ADDED IN DECEMBER 1997: However, the usage found in the
    literature led to add a number for these "NN" stars,
    starting from 3001 (for star #2), 3002 (for star #4), etc,
    and ending with NN 4388.

File Summary:

FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
× 80 . This file × ReadMe 80 . This file × catalog.dat 257 3803 The Catalogue
See also: III/198 : Palomar/MSU nearby star spectroscopic survey (Hawley+ 1997) Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
1- 8 A8 --- Name *Identifier ; see remarks. 9- 10 A2 --- Comp Components (A,B,C,... ) 11 A1 --- DistRel *[pqsx] Reliability of the distance 13- 14 I2 h RAh ? Right Ascension B1950 (hours) 16- 17 I2 min RAm ? Right Ascension B1950 (minutes) 19- 20 I2 s RAs ? Right Ascension B1950 (seconds) 22 A1 --- DE- Declination B1950 (sign) 23- 24 I2 deg DEd ? Declination B1950 (degrees) 26- 29 F4.1 arcmin DEm ? Declination B1950 (minutes) 31- 36 F6.3 arcsec/yr pm ? Total proper motion 37 A1 --- u_pm Uncertainty flag (:) on pm 38- 42 F5.1 deg pmPA ? Direction angle of proper motion 44- 49 F6.1 km/s RV ? Radial velocity 51- 53 A3 --- n_RV *Remark on RV 55- 66 A12 --- Sp Spectral type or color class 67 A1 --- r_Sp *Selected sources 68- 73 F6.2 mag Vmag Apparent magnitude 74 A1 --- r_Vmag *Note on origin of magnitude 75 A1 --- n_Vmag [J] joint magnitude 76- 80 F5.2 mag B-V ? color 81 A1 --- r_B-V *Note on origin of magnitude 82 A1 --- n_B-V *Joint color 83- 87 F5.2 mag U-B ? color 88 A1 --- r_U-B *Note on origin of magnitude 89 A1 --- n_U-B *Joint color 90- 94 F5.2 mag R-I ? color 95 A1 --- r_R-I *Note on origin of magnitude 96 A1 --- n_R-I *Joint color 97-102 F6.1 mas trplx ? Trigonometric parallax 103-107 F5.1 mas e_trplx ? Standard error of trig. parallax 109-114 F6.1 mas plx ? Resulting parallax 115-119 F5.1 mas e_plx ? Standard error of res. parallax 120 A1 --- n_plx *[rwsop] Code on plx 122-126 F5.2 mag Mv Absolute visual magnitude 127-128 A2 --- n_Mv Note on Mv, copied from cols 74-75 129 A1 --- q_Mv *[a-f] Quality of absolute magnitude 132-135 I4 km/s U ? U space velocity component in the galactic plane and directed to the galactic center 137-140 I4 km/s V ? V space velocity component in the galactic plane and in the direction of galactic rotation 142-145 I4 km/s W ? W space velocity component in the galactic plane and in the direction of the North Galactic Pole 147-152 I6 --- HD [15/352860]? designation 154-165 A12 --- DM Durchmusterung number BD / CD / CP 167-175 A9 --- Giclas number <...> 177-181 A5 --- LHS number <...> 183-187 A5 --- OtherName *Other designations 189-257 A69 --- Remarks Additional identifications (LTT, LFT, Wolf, Ross, etc.) and remarks
Note on Name: the following acronyms are used: Gl Gliese: CNS2, =1969VeARI..22....1G GJ Gliese & Jahreiss, A&AS, 38, 423 (1979) Wo Woolley et al., Roy. Obs. Ann. No. 5 (1970) NN newly added stars (number added at CDS) See the Nomemclature Note above ! Note on DistRel: the reliability of the distance is coded: s trig. parallax > 0.0390 and phot. parallax < 0.0390 x trig. parallax > 0.0390 and phot. parallax < 0.0190 p trig. parallax < 0.0390 and phot. parallax > 0.0390 q trig. parallax < 0.0390 and phot. parallax(:) > 0.0390 Note on n_RV: the following abbreviations are used: var variable (?) radial velocity SB? suspected spectroscopic binary SB spectroscopic binary Note on r_Sp: Selected sources (list not complete) for Sp are: K Kuiper Type (see Bildelman) =1985ApJS...59..197K L San-Gak Lee =1984AJ.....89..702L O objective prism MK type (but not Michigan type) R Robertson type =1984AJ.....89.1229R s Stephenson type (Catalogue III/123) =1986AJ.....91..144S =1986AJ.....92..139S S Smethells type (IAU Coll. No 76, p. 421, 1983) U Upgren et al. UGP number =1972AJ.....77..486U W Mount Wilson type Note on r_Vmag, r_U-B, r_B-V, r_R-I: The following codes are used (list not complete): P photographic * photometric C from 'Cape refractor system' c calculated or transformed v variable : uncertain Note on n_U-B, n_B-V, n_R-I: This column should only contain a 'J' indicating joint magnitudes, but some other letters may also be found. Note on n_plx: The following indicators are found: r parallax from spectral types and broad-band colors w photom. parallax for white dwarfs s photom. parallax from Stroemgren photometry o photom. parallax from Stroemgren photometry calculated by E. H. Olsen p photom. parallax from other colors Note on q_Mv: the Quality code for Mv is a s.e. < 0.10 mag b 0.11 < s.e. < 0.20 c 0.21 < s.e. < 0.30 d 0.31 < s.e. < 0.50 e 0.51 < s.e. < 0.75 f 0.76 < s.e. Note on OtherName: the following acronyms are used: V Vyssotsky number (Catalogue III/13) U UGP number =1972AJ.....77..486U W white dwarf (EG or Gr number, see catalogue III/129)
References: Gliese W., 1969, Veroeff. Astron. Rechen-Inst. Heidelberg, No 22 =1969VeARI..22....1G Gliese W., Jahreiss H., data 1969-1978 =1979A&AS...38..423G See also: III/13 : Vyssotsky's catalogues 1950.0 (1943-1958) III/129 : Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs, 1987, McCook and Sion V/32 : Woolley's Catalogue of stars within 25pc of the Sun V/35 : Gliese W., Jahreiss H., CNS2 Catalogue and nearby star data 1969-1978 Historical notes: * Description initially prepared by Hartmut Jahreiss, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, D-6900 Heidelberg 1, GERMANY. The catalogue is distributed on the CD-ROM "Selected Astronomical Catalogs", Volume 1, 1991, directory /combined/nearbyst * 05-Sep-1994: reformatted according to CDS Standards (F. Ochsenbein) The missing decimal points in the parallax columns (plx trplx e_plx e_trplx) has been added, and the blanks between the sign and the number in all numeric columns have been removed. * 04-Nov-1995: this documentation file revisited at CDS (F. Ochsenbein) * 04-Dec-1997: the "NN" number has been completed with a number starting with NN 3001 and ending with NN 4388 (See Nomenclature Notes above) ================================================================================ (End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 04-Nov-1995