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3. Description of the carbon stars found

The results of our program are presented in seventeen tables. We regroup stars of each ESO/SERC field into one table, these are Tables 2 to 14, with the exception of Table 2 where a few fields with very few carbon stars are regrouped. Star names are based on their 1950 equatorial coordinates. The format of the tables is essentially the same. The table columns give: name of star, name from our candidate list which includes the field number, equatorial coordinates, galactic coordinates, the average measured radial velocity, the radial velocity corrected for the solar motion, we use (9, 12, 7) for the solar motion and we adopt a tex2html_wrap_inline1247; the quality parameter Q; the number of spectra obtained; magnitudes and colours and comments. The comment wk'' means weak carbon features, the best example being the star tex2html_wrap_inline1251, although as noted earlier it is quite lkely that many of these objects are late-type M giants belonging to the Clouds rather than carbon stars.

Finding charts for the carbon stars listed in Tables 2 to 14 are available, as Postscript files, from demers@astro.umontreal.ca.

The inter-Cloud carbon stars, listed in Table 15, have been identified by Demers et al. (1993); here we list the published V magnitudes and B-V colours. This table includes also a few stars from the list of Hardy et al. (1989). These stars are included in order to facilitate the comparison of their radial velocity zero point with ours. The WORC stars, given in Table 16, are taken from Westerlund et al. (1978) we have for them only an R magnitude. The LMC stars listed in Table 17 have been identified by Blanco et al. (1980) in this case, I magnitudes and R-I colours are given. Finally, in Table 18 we list six carbon stars located in four star clusters of the SMC.


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