5065 V/65 Spectroscopically Selected Gal Halo K Giants K U Ratnatunga K C Freeman ApJ 339 126 1989 1989ApJ...339..126R Abundances, [Fe/H] Radial velocities Stars, giant Stars, halo Stars, high-velocity The catalog results from a survey for distant Field K giants in the Galactic halo made for purposes of locating a chemically and kinematically unbiased sample out to about 25 kpc from the Sun. The motivation for the study and sample selection are outlined by Ratnatunga & Freeman (1985), while details and analysis of the results will be found in Ratnatunga & Freeman (1989). Three high-galactic-latitude fields each of 20 square degrees, designated by their Selected-Area identifications, include the following: SA 141 (l=240,b=-85); SA 189 (277, -50); and SA 127 (272, +38), and have the apparent magnitude range 13 < V < 16 and color range (B-V) > 0.9. Stars were selected from PDS photographic photometry of Schmidt plates (see Ratnatunga 1983, catalog #2121). K-giant selection used the Mgb+MgH feature at 5100A from digital image analysis of PDS scans of ESO 1-m Schmidt telescope objective-prism spectra with 450 A/mm at H-gamma resolution on IIIa-J plates exposed through a Schott GG475 filter. Luminosity confirmation, line-of-sight velocities, and metallicity were determined from 2-A resolution slit spectra taken with the 4-m Anglo- Australian and 1.9-m Mount Stromlo telescopes. Cross identifications exist for some stars in the SA 141 SGP field only.

GLON Galactic longitude deg GLAT Galactic latitude deg V Photoelectric V magnitude on UBV system mag B-V Photoelectric B-V color on UBV system mag M(V) Absolute visual magnitude mag [Fe/H] Fe/H value relative to Sun (brackets omitted) --- D Photometric distance kpc RV Radial (line-of-sight) velocity km/s RAh Right Ascension 1950 (hours) h RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) min RAds Right Ascension 1950 (deci-seconds) 0.1s DE- Declination 1950 (sign) --- DEd Declination 1950 (degrees) deg DEm Declination 1950 (minutes) arcmin DEs Declination 1950 (seconds) arcsec RF Star designation from Ratnatunga (1983) --- E Star designation from Eriksson (1978) --- BB Star designation from Bok & Basinski (1964) --- C.-H. Joseph Lyu Hughes STX/NASA 1995Aug16 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN The catalogue was received from the Astronomical Data Center; the Format part has been standardised at CDS. Original summary and format description was prepared at the Astronomical Data Center, National Space Science Data Center / World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Wayne H. Warren Jr., Kavan U. Ratnatunga, 1990 November. V_65.xml