... The distribution of galactic RCB stars is controversial. Several authors have argued that they belong to a thick galactic disk, and are thus old Population I stars. ... However, their distribution and space velocities suggest they may alternatively belong to the even older galactic bulge (Population II, [ Drilling 1986 ]). ... These are the only RCB stars for which a distance is known and hence for which an absolute magnitude can be deduced. ...

... SPARCompiler(TM) Fortran 90 1.0 . FORTRAN 77 3.0.1 . ... important of these. -ansi: Report non-ANSI extensions. -c: Suppress linking, produce .o files -e: Recognize extended (132 character) source lines -fast: Specify common set of performance options - fixed : Interpret all Fortran source files according to fixed form rules -flags: Print summary of compiler options -fnonstd: Non-standard initialization of floating-point hardware -fnonstop: Execute without trapping on invalid, overflow ...