This is the second public release of machine readable versions of Einstein Astrophysical Databases. Any news on these databases and, eventually, the databases themselves will be available through the Einstein On-line service ("einline", for details see below).
These disks contain ascii tables and text describing the tables for the following Einstein Databases:
Volume 3: The Einstein Quasar Database (QSO)
The Einstein Stellar Database (STR)
Volume 4: The Einstein Observation Catalog, 6th Edition (OCT)
In order to aid the user in reading the tables into a database, we also
provide format information for the tables (FORMAT.DOC in each subdirectory).
We do not expect these to be foolproof but hope they minimize your effort. In
particular, gaps in the tables may cause problems both in reading via fortran
or directly accessing the ascii files. For this we apologize in advance but note
that incomplete data in some cases is unavoidable.
Wilkes,B.J., Tananbaum,H., Avni,Y., Worrall,D.M. and Oey,M.S. in "Imaging X-ray Astronomy: a decade of Einstein Observatory achievements" ed. M. Elvis, Cambridge University Press
The quasar database tables are in the subdirectory "QSO" as follows:
QSO.DOC General documentation
FORMAT.DOC Summary of column names and fortran formats
QSOS Object list
XOBS X-ray observational data
XFLUXA X-ray fluxes, energy index = 0.0
XFLUXB X-ray fluxes, energy index = 0.5
XFLUXC X-ray fluxes, energy index = 1.0
XFLUXD X-ray fluxes, energy index = 1.5
OPTICAL Optical information
MISSING QSOs not processed
NOTES Notes to all the tables
REFS Key to references in tables
Documentation, contained in "QSO.DOC", is reprinted from the current
version of the Ap.J. Supplement draft and gives details of the X-ray
analysis procedures used in determining the quantities given in this
database.
Hyades Micela,G., Sciortino,S., Vaiana,G.S., Schmitt,J.H.M.M., Stern,R., Harnden Jr.,F.R. and Rosner,R. (1988) Ap.J. 325,798
O stars Chlebowski,T., Harnden Jr.,F.R. and Sciortino,S. (1989) Ap.J. 341,427
G stars Maggio,A. et.al (1989) Ap.J. Ap.J. 348,557
Pleiades Micela,A., Sciortino,S., Vaiana,G.S., Harnden Jr.,F.R., Rosner,R. and Schmitt,J.H.M.M. Ap.J. 348,557
UMa stars Schmitt,J.H.M.M., Micela,G., Sciortino,S., Vaiana,G.S., Harnden Jr.,F.R., and Rosner,R. (1990) Ap.J. 351,492
The Stellar Database tables are in the subdirectory "STR" as shown in the table below. They are taken directly from the published papers listed above and labelled according to the Ap.J. volume of the paper and the table number in that paper. For each paper a ".DOC" file gives information on the contents of each table. The user should refer to the relevant paper for all scientific details.
STR.DOC General documentation
FORMAT.DOC Summary of column names and fortran formats
GSTARS.DOC Documentation on G star
APJ315T1 G stars, table 1
APJ315T2 G stars, table 2
APJ315T3 G stars, table 3
HYADES.DOC Documentation on Hyades
APJ325T1 Hyades, table 1
APJ325T2 Hyades, table 2
APJ325T4 Hyades, table 4
OSTARS.DOC Documentation on O stars
APJ341T4 O stars, table 4
APJ341T5 O stars, table 5
GIANTS.DOC Documentation on giants
APJ348T2.1 Giants, table 2
PLEIADES.DOC Documentation on Pleiades
APJ348T1.2 Pleiades, table 1
APJ348T2.2 Pleiades, table 2
APJ348T4.2 Pleiades, table 4
UMA.DOC Documentation on UMa stars
APJ351T1 UMa stars, table 1
APJ351T2 UMa stars, table 2
APJ351T4 UMa stars, table 4
The Einstein observation catalog and associated tables are in the subdirectory "OCT" as follows:
OCT.DOC General documentation FORMAT.DOC Summary of column names and fortran formats OBSERVNS ``The Yellow Book'' listing all observations made OBS.NAM Observer names DBREQS Databank requests CATEGS Object type
Documentation, in "OCT.DOC", gives details of the contents of the tables. For information on the Einstein Observatory and its instruments, the user is referred to the Revised User's Manual, the IPC and HRI CDROMs or the Einstein On-Line service "einline". Information on all the above can be obtained from the HEAO Newsletters or by writing to:
Einstein Catalog Office, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, MS 3, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
To access "einline":
telnet: 128.103.40.204, (alias cfa204.harvard.edu) span: set host 6714, (alias cfa204) or call (617)495-7047/7048 (United States) login name: einline password: xraysrusThe program will start automatically and ask the relevant questions.