The Tycho-2 Catalogue:
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File Name | Lrecl | Records | Explanations |
catalog.dat | 206 | 2539913 | The Tycho-2 main catalogue |
suppl_1.dat | 122 | 17588 | The Tycho-2 supplement-1 |
suppl_2.dat | 122 | 1146 | The Tycho-2 supplement-2 |
index.dat | 42 | 9538 | Index to Tycho-2 and supplement-1 |
Records are terminated with \r\n (CR,LF), making the physical record lengths two characters longer.
In the data files, the fields in each record are separated by a vertical bar, |. In this connection the TYC identifier (TYC1, TYC2 and TYC3) constitutes one field and the pair of a HIP number with a CCDM identifier is also considered one field. In the format descriptions, the vertical bars are indicated as "1X". If a numerical field may be blank, this is indicated by a question mark following the range specification in the Explanations column, e.g. "[ ]?".
Bytes | Format | Units | Label | Explanations |
1- 4 | I4.4 | --- | TYC1 | [1,9537]+= TYC1 from TYC or GSC (1) |
6- 10 | I5.5 | --- | TYC2 | [1,12121] TYC2 from TYC or GSC (1) |
12- 13 | I1,1X | --- | TYC3 | [1,3] TYC3 from TYC (1) |
14- 15 | A1,1X | --- | pflag | [ PX] mean position flag (2) |
16- 28 | F12.8,1X | deg | mRAdeg | []? Mean Right Asc, ICRS, epoch J2000 (3) |
29- 41 | F12.8,1X | deg | mDEdeg | []? Mean Decl, ICRS, at epoch J2000 (3) |
42- 49 | F7.1,1X | mas/yr | pmRA* | [-4418.0,6544.2]? prop. mot. in RA*cos(dec) |
50- 57 | F7.1,1X | mas/yr | pmDE | [-5774.3,10277.3]? prop. mot. in Dec |
58- 61 | I3,1X | mas | e_mRA* | [3,183]? s.e. RA*cos(dec),at mean epoch (5) |
62- 65 | I3,1X | mas | e_mDE | [1,184]? s.e. of Dec at mean epoch (5) |
66- 70 | F4.1,1X | mas/yr | e_pmRA* | [0.2,11.5]? s.e. prop mot in RA*cos(dec)(5) |
71- 75 | F4.1,1X | mas/yr | e_pmDE | [0.2,10.3]? s.e. of proper motion in Dec(5) |
76- 83 | F7.2,1X | yr | mepRA | [1915.95,1992.53]? mean epoch of RA (4) |
84- 91 | F7.2,1X | yr | mepDE | [1911.94,1992.01]? mean epoch of Dec (4) |
92- 94 | I2,1X | --- | Num | [2,36]? Number of positions used |
95- 98 | F3.1,1X | --- | g_mRA | [0.0,9.9]? Goodness of fit for mean RA (6) |
99-102 | F3.1,1X | --- | g_mDE | [0.0,9.9]? Goodness of fit for mean Dec (6) |
103-106 | F3.1,1X | --- | g_pmRA | [0.0,9.9]? Goodness of fit for pmRA (6) |
107-110 | F3.1,1X | --- | g_pmDE | [0.0,9.9]? Goodness of fit for pmDE (6) |
111-117 | F6.3,1X | mag | BT | [2.183,16.581]? Tycho-2 BT magnitude (7) |
118-123 | F5.3,1X | mag | e_BT | [0.014,1.977]? s.e. of BT (7) |
124-130 | F6.3,1X | mag | VT | [1.905,15.193]? Tycho-2 VT magnitude (7) |
131-136 | F5.3,1X | mag | e_VT | [0.009,1.468]? s.e. of VT (7) |
137-140 | I3,1X | --- | prox | [3,999] proximity indicator (8) |
141-142 | A1,1X | --- | TYC | [ T] Tycho-1 star (9) |
143-148 | I6 | --- | HIP | [1,120404]? Hipparcos number |
149-152 | A3,1X | --- | CCDM | CCDM component identifier for HIP stars(10) |
153-165 | F12.8,1X | deg | RAdeg | Observed Tycho-2 Right Ascension, ICRS |
166-178 | F12.8,1X | deg | DEdeg | Observed Tycho-2 Declination, ICRS |
179-183 | F4.2,1X | yr | epRA | [0.81,2.13] epoch-1990 of RAdeg |
184-188 | F4.2,1X | yr | epDE | [0.72,2.36] epoch-1990 of DEdeg |
189-194 | F5.1,1X | mas | e_RA* | s.e.RA*cos(dec), of observed Tycho-2 RA (5) |
195-200 | F5.1,1X | mas | e_DE | s.e. of observed Tycho-2 Dec (5) |
201-202 | A1,1X | --- | posflg | [ DP] type of Tycho-2 solution (11) |
203-206 | F4.1 | --- | corr | correlation (RAdeg,DEdeg) |
Bytes | Format | Units | Label | Explanations |
1- 4 | I4.4 | --- | TYC1 | [2,9529]+= TYC1 from TYC (1) |
6- 10 | I5.5 | --- | TYC2 | [1,12112] TYC2 from TYC (1) |
12- 13 | I1,1X | --- | TYC3 | [1,4] TYC3 from TYC (1) |
14- 15 | A1,1X | --- | flag | [HT] data from Hipparcos or Tycho-1 (2) |
16- 28 | F12.8,1X | deg | RAdeg | Right Asc, ICRS, at epoch J1991.25 |
29- 41 | F12.8,1X | deg | DEdeg | Decl, ICRS, at epoch J1991.25 |
42- 49 | F7.1,1X | mas/yr | pmRA* | []? prop. mot. in RA*cos(dec) |
50- 57 | F7.1,1X | mas/yr | pmDE | []? prop. mot. in Dec |
58- 63 | F5.1,1X | mas | e_RA* | s.e. RA*cos(dec) |
64- 69 | F5.1,1X | mas | e_DE | s.e. of Dec |
70- 75 | F5.1,1X | mas/yr | e_pmRA* | []? s.e. prop mot in RA * cos(dec) |
76- 81 | F5.1,1X | mas/yr | e_pmDE | []? s.e. of proper motion in Dec |
82- 83 | A1,1X | --- | mflag | [ BVH] (3) |
84- 90 | F6.3,1X | mag | BT | []? Tycho-1 BT magnitude (4) |
91- 96 | F5.3,1X | mag | e_BT | []? s.e. of BT (4) |
97-103 | F6.3,1X | mag | VT | []? Tycho-1 VT or Hp magnitude (4) |
104-109 | F5.3,1X | mag | e_VT | []? s.e. of VT (4) |
110-113 | I3,1X | --- | prox | [1,999] proximity indicator (5) |
114-115 | A1,1X | --- | TYC | [ T] Tycho-1 star |
116-121 | I6 | --- | HIP | [1,120404]? Hipparcos number |
122-122 | A1 | --- | CCDM | CCDM component identifier for HIP stars |
Bytes | Format | Units | Label | Explanations |
1- 8 | I7,1X | --- | rec_t2 | + Tycho-2 rec. of 1st star in region (1) |
9-15 | I6,1X | --- | rec_s2 | += Suppl-1 rec. of 1st star in region (1) |
16-22 | F6.2,1X | deg | RAmin | [-0.01,] smallest RA in region (2) |
23-29 | F6.2,1X | deg | RAmax | [,360.00] largest RA in region (2) |
30-36 | F6.2,1X | deg | DEmin | smallest Dec in this region (2) |
37-42 | F6.2 | deg | DEmax | largest Dec in this region (2) |