Format for the Table of FIRST-APM Optical Counterparts From McMahon, White, Helfand & Becker, 2001, "Optical Counterparts for 70,000 Radio Sources: APM Identifications for the FIRST Radio Survey", ApJSupp, in press Column Name Description ------ ---- ----------- 1-2 RA, Dec radio source coordinates (epoch J2000.0) 3-5 dRA, dDec offsets (arcsec) to the optical object in RA and Dec 5 Sep radius (arcsec) to the optical object 6 Ecl APM classification on E plate 7 Epsf APM psf parameter on E plate 8 Emag E (red) magnitude 9 Ocl APM classification on O plate 10 Opsf APM psf parameter on O plate 11 Omag O (blue) magnitude 12 O-E Color 13 Plate Number of POSS-I plate 14 Fpeak FIRST peak radio flux density (mJy) 15 Fint FIRST integrated radio flux density (mJy) 16 Maj FIRST source deconvolved major axis (FWHM, arcsec) 17 Min FIRST source deconvolved minor axis (FWHM, arcsec) 18 PA FIRST position angle for major axis (degrees) Notes on parameters: - APM positions and magnitudes have been calibrated as described in the paper. - The classification codes (Ecl, Ocl) are -1=stellar, 1=non-stellar, 2=blended, 0=noise. - The Epsf and Opsf parameters measure by how many sigma the object deviates from being a point-source. - Negative magnitudes indicate that source is undetected on the plate. In that case, the absolute value of the magnitude is an upper limit. - The O-E color is -9.99 if the object is detected on only one plate. - The radio parameters are described in more detail in White, Becker, Helfand, & Gregg (1997, ApJ, 475, 479) and on the FIRST web pages (http://sundog.stsci.edu). - Negative values for the FIRST major and minor axes indicate that the source size before deconvolution was smaller than the beam, so the source is unresolved along that axis.