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A sample-oriented catalogue of BL Lacertae objects 
         PAOLO PADOVANI AND PAOLO GIOMMI 
         Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, (1995), 277, 1477
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Byte-per-byte Description of Ascii table
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   Bytes  Format  Units   Explanations
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   1-  31  A3             Object name(s) 
  33-  34  I2     h       Right Ascension 2000 (hours)
  36-  37  I2     min     Right Ascension 2000 (minutes)
  39-  42  F4.1   s       Right Ascension 2000 (seconds)
       44  A1             Declination 2000 (sign)
  45-  46  I2     deg     Declination 2000 (degrees)
  48-  49  I2     arcmin  Declination 2000 (minutes)
  51-  52  I2     arcsec  Declination 2000 (seconds)
       54  A1             Comment/note on redshift (? = uncer., > = lower limit)
  55-  59  F5.3           Redshift
  62-  65  F4.1   mag     V magnitude  
       66  A1             Note on V magnitude
  67-  72  F6.1   mJy     5GHz flux      
       73  A1             Note on radio flux 
  74-  87  A14            References to: redshift, V mag., 5GHz flux
  90- 112  A23            References to X-ray data
 114- 140  A27            Sample(s)    
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NOTES:

a - Derived from the B magnitude assuming B-V = 0.6, the mean value for BL Lacs 
b - radio flux at 8.4 GHz
c - detected only during phase 2 of the EGRET observations and therefore not
included in the phase 1 EGRET catalogue of Fichtel et al. (1994) 
d - from Murphy, Browne & Perley (1993); Perlman et al. (1995b) give no
redshift, so this value might be uncertain 
e - derived from the mean B magnitude using the observed value of B-V


REFERENCES:

B87:  Biermann et al. (1987)                   
B90:  Brissenden et al. (1990)              
B92:  Biermann et al. (1992)            
B94:  Bade et al. (1994)                
B95:  Brinkmann et al. (1995)           
C93:  Ciliegi et al. (1993)             
CF94: Crawford and Fabian (1994)       
D90:  Della Ceca et al. (1990)          
E92:  Elvis et al. (1992)               
F93:  Fleming et al. (1993)             
F94:  Falomo et al. (1994)              
FM88: Fugmann and Meisenheimer (1988)  
FPT93:Falomo et al. (1993)
FT90: Falomo and Treves (1990)         
G86:  Green et al. (1986)      
G91:  Giommi et al. (1991)             
H91:  Hawkins et al. (1991)            
HB93: Hewitt and  Burbidge (1993)     
IPC:  Einstein IPC Database            
J93:  Jannuzi et al. (1993)            
K81:  Kuehr et al. (1981b)             
K95:  Katgert et al., in preparation   
KS90: Kuehr and Schmidt (1990)        
L93:  Laurent-Muehleisen et al. (1993) 
M91:  Morris et al. (1991)             
M93:  Murphy et al. (1993)             
M94:  Maccacaro et al. (1994)          
N6:   Becker et al. (1991)              
P92:  Padovani (1992)  
P95:  Perlman et al. (1995b) 
PMN:  Wright et al. (1994), Griffith et al. (1994) 
S89:  Schwartz et al. (1989)  
S91:  Stickel et al. (1991) 
S94:  Stickel et al. (1994)  
SK93: Stickel and Kuehr (1993b)  
SK94: Stickel and Kuehr (1994) 
ST91: Stocke et al. (1991)  
VV93: Veron-Cetty and Veron (1993a) 
W95:  Wolter et al., in preparation 
WGA:  White et al. (1994)