Red MSX Source Catalog Definitions

Overview

The Red MSX Source (RMS) Survey is the largest statistically selected catalog of young massive protostars and HII regions to date. Within the adopted selection bounds it is more than 90% complete for the massive protostellar population, with a positional accuracy of the exciting source of better than 2 arcseconds.

Name	Intype	Units	Description
ra	double	deg	Right Ascension (J2000)
dec	double	deg	Declination (J2000)
Name	char		Full catalog name of the source
RAh	int	h	Hour of RA
RAm	int	min	Minute of RA
RAs	double	s	Second of RA
DEsign	char		Sign of the Declination
DEd	int	deg	Degree of Declination
DEm	int	arcmin	Arcminute of Declination
DEs	double	arcsec	Arcsecond of Declination
Type	char		Source Type as defined in Lumsden et al.
CCut	char		Falling near infrared color cuts?
vLSR	double	km/s	Local Standard of Rest velocity
Near	double	kpc	Near distance for source
Far	double	kpc	Far distance for source
Dis	double	kpc	Adopted distance
Rgc	double	kpc	Distance from Galactic center
Lbol	long	solLum	Bolometric luminosity
IRAS	char		IRAS counterpart within MSX beam