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Improved Astrometry and Photometry for the Luyten Catalog. II. Faint Stars and the Revised Catalog
We complete construction of a catalog containing improved astrometry andnew optical/infrared photometry for the vast majority of NLTT starslying in the overlap of regions covered by POSS I and by the secondincremental Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) release, approximately 44%of the sky. The epoch 2000 positions are typically accurate to 130 mas,the proper motions to 5.5 mas yr-1, and the V-J colors to0.25 mag. Relative proper motions of binary components are measured to 3mas yr-1. The false-identification rate is ~1% for11<~V<~18 and substantially less at brighter magnitudes. Theseimprovements permit the construction of a reduced proper-motion diagramthat, for the first time, allows one to classify NLTT stars intomain-sequence (MS) stars, subdwarfs (SDs), and white dwarfs (WDs). We inturn use this diagram to analyze the properties of both our catalog andthe NLTT catalog on which it is based. In sharp contrast to popularbelief, we find that NLTT incompleteness in the plane is almostcompletely concentrated in MS stars, and that SDs and WDs are detectedalmost uniformly over the sky δ>-33deg. Our catalogwill therefore provide a powerful tool to probe these populationsstatistically, as well as to reliably identify individual SDs and WDs.
| New High Proper Motion Stars from the Digitized Sky Survey. I. Northern Stars with 0.5" yr-1<μ<2.0" yr-1 at Low Galactic Latitudes
We have conducted a systematic search for high proper motion stars inthe Digitized Sky Survey, in the area of the sky north of -2.8 degreesin declination and within 25 degrees of the Galactic plane. Using theSUPERBLINK software, a powerful automated blink comparator developed byus, we have identified 601 stars in the magnitude range 92.0" yr-1), and five were missed because they wereeither too bright for SUPERBLINK to handle or they are in the immediateproximity of very bright stars. Only one of Luyten's stars (LHS 1657)could not be recovered at all, even by visual inspection of the POSSplates, and is now suspected to be bogus. The very high success rate inthe recovery by SUPERBLINK of faint Luyten stars suggests that our newsurvey of high proper motion stars is at least 99% complete for starswith proper motions 0.5"yr-1<μ<2.0"yr-1down to R=19. This paper includes a list of positions, proper motions,magnitudes, and finder charts for all the new high proper motion stars.This paper is respectfully dedicated to the memory of the late Barry M.Lasker, former director of the Catalogs and Survey Branch of the SpaceTelescope Science Institute, whose vision was instrumental in thecreation of the Digitized Sky Survey and Guide Star Catalogs.
| Revised Coordinates and Proper Motions of the Stars in the Luyten Half-Second Catalog
We present refined coordinates and proper-motion data for the highproper-motion (HPM) stars in the Luyten Half-Second (LHS) catalog. Thepositional uncertainty in the original Luyten catalog is typicallygreater than 10" and is often greater than 30". We have used the digitalscans of the POSS I and POSS II plates to derive more accurate positionsand proper motions of the objects. Out of the 4470 candidates in the LHScatalog, 4323 objects were manually reidentified in the POSS I and POSSII scans. A small fraction of the stars were not found because of thelack of finder charts and digitized POSS II scans. The uncertainties inthe revised positions are typically ~2" but can be as high as ~8" in afew cases, which is a large improvement over the original data.Cross-correlation with the Tycho-2 and Hipparcos catalogs yielded 819candidates (with mR<~12). For these brighter sources, theposition and proper-motion data were replaced with the more accurateTycho-2/Hipparcos data. In total, we have revised proper-motionmeasurements and coordinates for 4040 stars and revised coordinates for4330 stars. The electronic version of the paper5 contains the updated information on all 4470stars in the LHS catalog.
| Stars with the Largest Hipparcos Photometric Amplitudes
A list of the 2027 stars that have the largest photometric amplitudes inHipparcos Photometry shows that most variable stars are all Miras. Thepercentage of variable types change as a function of amplitude. Thiscompilation should also be of value to photometrists looking forrelatively unstudied, but large amplitude stars.
| The 74th Special Name-list of Variable Stars
We present the Name-list introducing GCVS names for 3153 variable starsdiscovered by the Hipparcos mission.
| Astrometric positions of stars with high proper motions in the Southern Hemisphere
Several stars with large proper motions, cited by W.J. Luyten, wereincluded in the preliminary programme for the HIPPARCOS mission. Whenperforming preparatory measurements of plates, difficulties wereencountered in identifying certain of these stars when relying only onpublished coordinates. We have taken advantage of this work whichrelates to the southern sky in order to determine the astrometricposition of the greatest possible number of these objects, even forthose which were not included in the programme. Catalogue is onlyavailable in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp tocdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or viahttp://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html
| Discrete Classification with Principal Component Analysis: Discrimination of Giant and Dwarf Spectra in K Stars
We demonstrate the use of a variant of Principal Component Analysis(PCA) for discrimination problems in astronomy. This variant of PCA isshown to provide the best linear discrimination between data classes. Asa test case, we present the problem of discrimination between K giantand K dwarf stars from intermediate resolution spectra near the Mg `b'feature. The discrimination procedure is trained on a set of 24 standardK giants and 24 standard K dwarfs, and then used to perform giant -dwarf classification on a sample of ~ 1500 field K stars of unknownluminosity class which were initially classified visually. For thehighest S/N spectra, the automated classification agrees very well (atthe 90 - 95% level) with the visual classification. Most importantly,however, the automated method is found to classify stars in a repeatablefashion, and, according to numerical experiments, is very robust tosignal to noise (S/N) degradation.
| The general catalogue of trigonometric [stellar] paralaxes
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| The Mass Distribution in the Galactic Disc - Part Two - Determination of the Surface Mass Density of the Galactic Disc Near the Sun
Abstract image available at:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1989MNRAS.239..605K&db_key=AST
| Four-color UVBY and H-beta photometry of high-velocity and metal-poor stars. I - The catalogue of observations
A catalog of four-color uvby and H-beta photometry for 711 high-velocityand metal-poor stars is given. The selection of the stars and theobserving and reduction techniques used to obtain these data arediscussed. The photometry has been transformed closely onto the standarduvby-beta system. The errors of the data have been estimated using bothinternal and external comparisons. The data are uniform over the sky;that is, there are no significant north-south differences. For the largemajority of stars the mean errors of V, m1, c1, and beta are less than +or - 0.008 mag, and the error of b-y is less than + or - 0.005 mag.Values of V, b-y and beta and rough photometric classifications aregiven for 63 red and/or evolved stars that fall outside the range of thephotometric transformations.
| Erratum - Errors or Omissions in Star-Identifications in the General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes
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| A photometric and spectroscopic survey of large proper-motion stars
Abstract image available at:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PASP...86..742R
| Subluminous late-type stars
Abstract image available at:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1968ApJ...153..195E&db_key=AST
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| Constellation: | Grue |
| Right ascension: | 23h01m30.72s |
| Declination: | -54°30'13.3" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 12.354 |
| Proper motion RA: | 446.3 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -337.1 |
| B-T magnitude: | 13.164 |
| V-T magnitude: | 12.421 |
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