The Description File introduced in Chapter intro(Alternative: The alternative name 0readme is proposed in Chapter intro) is aimed to provide all necessary information to locate the catalogue (authors, title, references, summary, etc...) and to interpret its contents by automatic procedures.
I/221 The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars - MACS (Tucholke+ 1996)
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The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars - MACS
Tucholke H.-J., de Boer K.S., Seitter W.C.
<Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 119, 91-98 (1996)>
<The Messenger 81, 20 (1995)>
=1996A&AS..119...91T =1995Msngr..81...20D
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ADC_Keywords: Magellanic Clouds ; Positional data
Description:
The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars (MACS) is based on scans of ESO
Schmidt plates and contains about 244,000 stars covering large areas
around the LMC and the SMC. The limiting magnitude is B<16.5m and the
positional accuracy is better than 0.5" for 99% of the stars. The
stars of this catalogue were screened interactively to ascertain that
they are undisturbed by close neighbours.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
lmc.dat 52 175779 The Large Magellanic Cloud
smc.dat 52 67782 The Small Magellanic Cloud
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: lmc.dat smc.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 12 A12 --- MACS Designation
14- 15 I2 h RAh Right Ascension J2000 , Epoch 1989.0 (hours)
17- 18 I2 min RAm Right Ascension J2000 (minutes)
20- 25 F6.3 s RAs Right Ascension J2000 (seconds)
27 A1 --- DE- Declination J2000 (sign)
28- 29 I2 deg DEd Declination J2000 , Epoch 1989.0 (degrees)
31- 32 I2 arcmin DEm Declination J2000 (minutes)
34- 38 F5.2 arcsec DEs Declination J2000 (seconds)
40 I1 --- Npos Number of positions used
42- 46 F5.2 mag Mag []?=99.00 Instrumental Magnitude
(to be used only in a relative sense)
48 I1 --- PosFlag [0/1] Position Flag (0: ok,
1: internal error larger than 0.5")
50 I1 --- MagFlag [0/1] Megnitude Flag (0: ok,
1: bad photometry or possible variable)
52 I1 --- BochumFlag *[0] Bochum Flag
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Note on BochumFlag: 1 if in Bochum catalog of astrophysical information
on bright LMC stars) (yet empty)
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Author's address:
Hans-Joachim Tucholke <tucholke@astro.uni-bonn.de>
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(End) Hans-Joachim Tucholke [Univ. Bonn] 20-Nov-1995
The ReadMe file of a catalogue