This documentation is for the "Jacoby" spectral library which was originally published by Jacoby, Hunter, and Christian

in 1984. The reference is Astrophys. J. Suppl. 56, 257. The original data contained digital spectra for 161 stars of spectral classes O through M and for the luminosity classes V, IV, III, II, and I. The original wavelength range was from 3510 A to 7427 A. The resolution was approximatel 4.5 A and the typical photometric uncertinity for each resolution element was approximately 1%. The original wavelength increment between pixel elements was 1.40 A. The original flux values were given in ergs/cm^2/sec/A and were placed on the flux scale of Hayes and Latham (1975) Astrophys. J. 197,593. The spectra were dereddened using the observed colors for the individual stars and the reddening law of Schild (1977) Astron. J. 82,337. This data has been extracted from the original database provided by Astronomical Data Center (ADC) opperated by the National Space Science Data Center. It is here in a form which can be read by the CLEA spectrometer simulation package. In particular, the original data was interpolated at 1 A intervals between 3900 A and 4500 A and then normalized to 1.0 at the maximum flux value in this wavelength interval for each spectrum. The data exists as 161 files containing wavelength, relative flux data pairs. Each file contains 601 data points. The files have names like jXXX.sp, where XXX is a number which runs from 001 to 161. The individual stars are identified in an index file jacoby2.inx. The following information is contained in the index file: index number this is the ordinal number of the star in the library and the integer part of the file name for the data name or ID for the star spectral type B-V U-B (synthetic, based on dereddened spectrum) (synthetic, based on dereddened spectrum)

record number for the beginning of the data for this star in the original data file Contact Dr.Gordon Spear at Sonoma State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 if you have additional questions. E-mail: ggs@Charmian.sonoma.edu