UBV photometry of HK survey stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Preston G.W.
  2. Shectman S.A.
  3. Beers T.C.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Photoelectric UBV observations of 1782 stars are used to explore properties of the HK objective-prism survey conducted by Beers, Preston, and Shectman with the Curtis-Schmidt telescope of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. We construct an intrinsic (U-B)0 versus (B-V)0 relation for blue horizontal branch stars and use it to derive estimates of E(B-V) color excesses in 50 survey fields. Comparison of these with the reddening maps of Burstein and Heiles indicates good agreement except in low-latitude fields toward the Galactic bulge. We describe qualitative features of the stellar content of the HK survey by use of unreddened two-color diagrams and indicate how the photometric data may prove useful in several applications. Finally, we use a halo density model to estimate the variation of completeness with apparent magnitude, B, in our catalog of field horizontal branch star candidates.

Keywords
  1. visible-astronomy
  2. Wide-band photometry
  3. chemically-peculiar-stars
  4. halo-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1991ApJS...76.1001P
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/76/1001
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/76/1001
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.20761001

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/76/1001
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/76/1001
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/76/1001
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/76/1001/stars?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/76/1001/stars?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/76/1001/stars?

History

2005-12-16T16:04:39Z
Resource record created
2005-12-16T16:04:39Z
Created
2017-07-12T06:59:50Z
Updated

Contact

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Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
E-Mail
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