Detailed Description of Catalogue VIII/4/

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VIII/4  FOURTH CAMBRIDGE RADIO SURVEY CATALOGUE (4C)
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     PILKINGTON J.D.H., SCOTT P.F.: 1965
     Mem. Roy. Astron. Soc. 69, 183
     GOWER J.F.R., SCOTT P.F., WILLS D.: 1967
     Mem. Roy. Astron. Soc. 71, 49
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Description:
    See the documentation file 'adc.doc' by Wayne H. Warren Jr.

File Summary:

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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

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Intro              80        .   This file
adc.doc            79      560   Full Documentation by Wayne H. Warren Jr.
                                    (NSSDC/WDC-A-R&S 83-10)
catalog            72     4844   The 4C Catalogue

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Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog

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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

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   1-  8  A8     ---     4C       4C designation
  11- 12  I2     h       RAh      Hours RA, equinox 1950.0
  14- 15  I2     min     RAm      Minutes RA, equinox 1950.0
  17- 20  F4.1   s       RAs      Seconds RA, equinox 1950.0
      23  A1     ---     DE-      Sign Dec, equinox 1950.0
  24- 25  I2     deg     DEd      Degrees Dec, equinox 1950.0
  27- 30  F4.1   arcmin  DEm      Minutes Dec, equinox 1950.0
  34- 40  F7.1   Jy      F178     Flux density (10E-26 W/m2/Hz) at 178 MHz
  43- 44  I2     ---     ErrCls   Num. code for position/flux density
                                    error class. This code is a numerical
                                    equivalent of q_F178 below.
                                    See adc.doc file
  48- 52  F5.1   deg     GLON     Galactic longitude
  55- 59  F5.1   deg     GLAT     Galactic latitude
  61- 63  A3     ---     q_F178   [ abcel*] position/flux density error class
                                    (see adc.doc file)
  65- 72  A8     ---     Remark   Remarks: Contains only cross-identifications
                                    to the "Revised 3C Catalogue"
                                    (Bennett A.S. 1962, Mem. RAS 68, 163).
                                    An asterisk indicates additional remarks
                                    were listed in the published catalog.

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(End)                                    Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]   25-Nov-1993

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