Volume 7, Issue 1
January 1998
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INTRODUCTION
January 1998 has been an interesting month here at the ADC, to say the least!
On the up side, the ADC Data Viewer was opened to public access. Even though
this service is quite new, its being used more than 600 times per week not
counting users within Goddard or the demonstrations given at the AAS meeting
this month. We had a successful exhibit booth at the AAS meeting in
Washington, D.C., and our latest CD-ROM, "Selected Astronomical Catalogs,
Volume 4" came back from the publisher earlier this month, too.
On the down side we discovered that a premastering mistake made the initial
release of CD-ROM, Volume 4 unusable with Windows 3.x and DOS 6.x. To users of
those operating systems: we haven't forgotten you! We are producing Volume 4,
Release 2. This new release will not have that problem.
- James E. Gass (Raytheon STX), Editor
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Recent Departures
James E. Gass (Raytheon STX)
Drs. Paul Kuin and Nancy Roman have recently left the staff of the ADC. The
ADC owes them both a huge debt of thanks for their energies, creativity, and
service. Both have done much to shape the ADC into what it is today. Paul
joined the ADC staff from the NASA Master Directory effort in 1992. Among his
many contributions were his work with Francois Ochsenbein of CDS in developing
the standard document format in use by CDS, ADC and their sister data centers,
establishing the ADC's anonymous FTP-accessible data collection, continuing
the ADC CD-ROM series, and heading the ADC for a period of time.
Nancy's service with the ADC began seventeen years ago. One can't begin to
give an idea of the scope of her contributions to the ADC in a few sentences.
But, since some readers may not know how important her work was to the ADC, I
feel compelled to try. Her commitment to finding and correcting any errors
in the data sets archived at the ADC is just one part of her legacy.
She developed many useful cross-indices between major catalogs. Nancy
developed standard documents for many of the catalogs at the ADC.
She headed the ADC for a number of years, during which time she was
instrumental in establishing our Science Steering Committee and coordinating
the ADC's efforts with those of its sister data centers. Dr. Roman worked to
make the community aware of the ADC's services and actively sought out
important data sets to make our services more valuable to the research
community. She also worked with students on many occasions to help them
explore their interests in science.
Once, during an AAS meeting, I was riding in the hotel's elevator with Nancy
and several other meeting participants. After some pleasantries, when Nancy
had gotten off at her floor, one of the other astronomers turned to me to
express her admiration for Dr. Roman and to comment that she seemed like a
member of the family. I understood what she meant perfectly. I can say that,
to her fellow ADC workers, Nancy will always be a part of the family, too.
Our best wishes go with Nancy and Paul.
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Your Data Contributions are Welcome
Janet L. Weiland (Raytheon STX)
As part of its service to the community, the ADC continually seeks to update
and expand its data holdings. We welcome submissions of professional-quality
astronomical data in electronic form for inclusion in our archives. The main
requirements for inclusion in the ADC archive are that the data are of general
use to the astronomical community, and that the data must have been accepted
for publication in a refereed scientific journal, or alternatively, must have
been published in the "Bulletin d'Information de CDS" (which is also
refereed).
The submission process is relatively painless, although it does require that
some documentation of the data be provided along with the actual dataset. The
preferred delivery format form for tabular data is ASCII (compatible with
ADC's new data viewer -- see the Data Viewer article below.), and the
preferred form for image data is FITS. Documentation should also be provided
in an ASCII text file. Wherever practical, this documentation should follow
the CDS/ADC standard format. A brief description of the submission guidelines
is given at http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/submit_guide.html . More detailed
information may be found at http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/data_submission.html.
You may view a listing of our complete catalog and journal table holdings, or
search the data documentation files, from the ADC collections page at
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_collections.html. If you have an interesting
dataset not already in our holdings, or know of a useful dataset which you
would like to see acquired, please contact us at adc@adc.astro.umd.edu.
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To the Rescue: Release 2 of ADC CD-ROM, Volume 4
James E. Gass (Raytheon STX)
The initial production run of the ADC CD-ROM, Volume 4 contains directories
and files named in all lower-case letters. So what's wrong with that? Well,
for one thing, it is not in keeping with the ISO 9660 standard. More
importantly, it appears to make it unnavigable on computers running some
earlier operating systems. The FAT (File Allocation Table) file system used
by Windows 3.x, and MS-DOS 6.x and earlier only recognizes upper case file and
directory names. Unfortunately, these systems still see the names on the disc
as lower case. I should mention that we have also encountered the problem on
a system running Version 3.51 of MS Windows NT. Windows 95, DOS 7.x, and
Windows NT 4.x are case-preserving, and the initial discs of Volume 4 work
fine with those systems. It also works fine with the other case-preserving
file systems we've tried (such as are used with various UNIX and Mac O/Ss).
For more detail on the problem, see our Q & A on the Selected Astronomical
Catalogs, Volume 4 at http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/cd4_explanation.html. Upon
examining our options on how to correct this problem, we have decided to make
a new production run of Volume 4 with the names changed to all upper-case
letters. We are calling this "Volume 4, Release 2" to distinguish it from the
initial release. Because the first set of discs are compatible with the file
systems used by most operating systems, we will continue to distribute the
CD-ROMs from the first production run. If you need to new version, be sure to
specify that in your request.
The Release 2 discs should be available in Mid-February. Please see
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_other_media.html#notice for ordering
information.
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ADC Data Viewer Now Available for You to Try
James E. Gass (Raytheon STX)
The new Web-based data visualization tools that were described in the last ADC
Electronic News are now publically available. To try the ADC Data Viewer, see
its Web page http://tarantella.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/catseye/adc_viewer2.pl .
Users who access catalogs from the services listed at
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_collections.html will also be able to invoke
the data viewer from the standard document display page for most ADC catalogs.
These tools are designed to allow a user of the ADC archives to choose a
catalog though several ADC interfaces, see which of the files associated with
that catalog are capable of being "viewed", and then select catalog data files
for subsetting, sorting and viewing.
These tools rely on the byte-by-byte table descriptions included in the
standard ReadMe document. Please note that catalogs that don't yet have a
standard document cannot be viewed with this tool. Also, data files that do
not or cannot have a byte-by-byte description of the standard format (such as
FITS files) cannot be viewed with the current version of the Data Viewer.
The details of the ADC Data Viewer and its related tools were described in the
October 1997 article, which is also available at
http://adf.gsfc.nasa.gov/adf/visualization/ .
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Newly Archived Catalogs and Journal Tables
Gail L. Schneider (Raytheon STX)
The following catalogs and journal tables are currently available from the
ADC. In addition to our major journals, we now have publications from other
journals.
We would like to thank the CDS, AAS and individual authors for making many of
the listed catalogs and journal tables available for our archival.
See http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/acq_new_updated.html#new_list for a hypertext
version of this article containing direct links to each catalog and journal
table listed.
NEW CATALOGS AND JOURNAL TABLES
I. Astrometric and Positional Data
ID# Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)
1246 The ACT Reference Catalog (Urban+ 1997)
II. Photometric Data
2203 Second Extreme Ultra-Violet Explorer Catalog (2EUVE, 1996)
III. Spectroscopic Data
3186 Energy distribution in stars at 320-760 nm (Knyazeva+, 1996)
3202 Spectrophotometric Catalogue of Stars (Kharitonov+, 1988)
V. Combined and Derived Data
5097 Updated 3rd Cat Variable Stars in Globular Clusters (Clement+ 1997)
5098 MSX Infrared Catalog (Egan+ 1996)
VI. Miscellaneous Data
6089 Radiative forces for stellar envelopes (Seaton, 1997)
VII. Non-Stellar and Extended Objects
7169 Optical Identifications of IRAS Point Sources (Wang+ 1986,87,91)
7184 Survey of 108 E-S0 galaxies (Michard+, 1993-94)
7204 Galaxy properties at NGP (Odewahn+ 1995)
VIII. Radio Sources
8034 Parkes Half-Jansky Flat-Spectrum Sample (Drinkwater + 1997)
8047 Galactic 21-cm line Survey (Westerhout+ 1982)
8048 The FIRST Survey (White+ 1997)
8037 The Third Bologna Survey (B3) (Ficarra+ 1985)
8036 The Second Bologna Survey (Colla+ 1970-1974)
IX. High-Energy Data
9019 X-ray lightcurves of bright AGNs from Ginga (Hayashida+ 1997)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
J/A+A/243/386 Hyades members distances (Schwan 1991)
J/A+A/278/36 M 31 new OB associations (Magnier+ 1993)
J/A+A/287/769 UV photometry of NGC 6397 (Burgarella+ 1994)
J/A+A/325/473 HCG HI-deficiency (Huchtmeier 1997)
J/A+A/325/647 High-resolution spectra south of Taurus (Neuhaeuser+ 1997)
J/A+A/325/693 Quantitative spectral classification (Malyuto+ 1997)
J/A+A/325/987 UBV magnitude of NGC 884 B-type pulsators (Krzesinski+ 1997)
J/A+A/325/1115 Near-simultaneous ROSAT and Mt Wilson data (Piters+ 1997)
J/A+A/325/1163 330-360GHz spectral lines of G 34.3+0.15. II. (Millar+ 1997)
J/A+A/326/249 Chromospheric models of dwarf M stars (Mauas+ 1997)
J/A+A/326/614 Terzan 2 VI photometry (Ortolani+ 1997)
J/A+A/326/722 HIPPARCOS Ba stars (Mennessier+ 1997)
J/A+A/326/751 Chemical composition of halo and disk stars (Nissen+, 1997)
J/A+A/326/780 Lithium depletion in CABs (Barrado y Navascues+ 1997)
J/A+A/326/1044 Eclipsing binaries uvbyHbeta photometry (Jordi+ 1997)
J/A+A/326/1069 Abundances in globular clusters (Russell 1997)
J/A+A/327/61 BV(RI)c photometry of S5 0716+714 (Ghisellini+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/145 Photopolarimetric activity of RR Tauri (Rostopchina+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/191 Spectrophot of southern symbiotic stars (Mikolajewska+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/522 Molecular gas content of spiral galaxies (Boselli+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/587 Abundances of 9 solar-type stars (Tomkin+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/736 Planetary nebulae properties (Stasinska+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/755 OH maser emission from IRAS sources (Palla+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/1039 Structure and evolution of low-mass stars (Chabrier+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/1114 Optical flares on EV Lac in 1967-1977 (Leto+ 1997)
J/A+A/327/1177 Kinematics and electron temperatures in Orion A (Wilson+ 1997)
J/A+A/328/83 Globular clusters luminosity function (Chabrier+ 1997)
J/A+A/328/175 K & M giants equivalent widths (Aoki+ 1997)
J/A+A/328/235 AN Lyn light maxima (Rodriguez+ 1997)
J/A+A/328/261 Spectroscopy of Alpha Cen (Neuforge-Verheecke+ 1997)
J/A+A/328/349 Role of Convection in A, F, and G stars (Smalley+ 1997)
J/A+A/328/551 Spectroscopic data of 4 Herculis (Koubsky+ 1997)
J/A+A/328/617 16O18O isotopomer collision rate (Marechal+ 1997)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/83/539 21cm radio continuum survey. I. (Reich+ 1990)
J/A+AS/97/587 JHK photometry of Galactic center stars (Ruelas-Mayorga+ 1993)
J/A+AS/98/393 The complete sample of 1 Jy BL Lac Objects. II. (STICKEL 1993)
J/A+AS/101/475 Spectroscopic observations of A3571 (Quintana+, 1993)
J/A+AS/110/1 CCD photometry of Pal 1 (Borissova+ 1995)
J/A+AS/117/317 uvby-beta photometry of metal-poor stars. VIII. (Schuster+ 1996)
J/A+AS/120/201 Extragalactic radio sources optical positions (Li+ 1996)
J/A+AS/122/447 New proper-motion stars -30catalogs/9/9018
J/AJ/114/222 Cross identifications in NGC 1502 (Weitenbeck 1997)
Astrophysical Journal
J/ApJ/336/780 gr photometry of NGC 5053 blue stragglers (Nemec+ 1989)
J/ApJ/427/125 QSOs orientation modeling (Lister+ 1994)
J/ApJ/434/54 Spectral properties of X-ray-selected AGNs (Thompson+ 1994)
J/ApJ/445/62 Radio properties of optically selected quasars (Hooper+ 1995)
J/ApJ/455/60 CFRS II: 0000-00 and 1000+25 fields (Le Fevre+ 1995)
J/ApJ/455/75 CFRS III: 1415+52 and 2215+00 fields (Lilly+ 1995)
J/ApJ/455/88 CFRS IV: 0300+00 field (Hammer+ 1995)
J/ApJ/456/234 Cas A radio knots spectral indices (Anderson+ 1996)
J/ApJ/459/686 Energy Deposition in Interstellar Dust Grains (Dwek+ 1996)
J/ApJ/464/79 CFRS XI: High-redshift field galaxies morphology (Schade+ 1996)
J/ApJ/471/L5 Redshift clustering in the Hubble Deep Field (Cohen+ 1996)
J/ApJ/479/231 PNe in M51, M96 & M101 (Feldmeier+ 1997)
J/ApJ/475/445 VIK photometry of faint field galaxies (Moustakas+ 1997)
J/ApJ/478/603 L1448 & L 1455 new Herbig-Haro flows (Bally+ 1997)
J/ApJ/480/568 RK photometry in 3C 336 field (Steidel+ 1997)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/69/99 NGC 6334 centers of star formation JHK photometry (Straw+ 1989)
J/ApJS/71/25 NGC 1866 CCD photometry (Brocato+ 1989)
J/ApJS/73/661 H II regions in M 101 (Hodge+ 1990)
J/ApJS/80/501 VLA survey of Abell clusters. II. (Owen+ 1992)
J/ApJS/89/85 Blue and red supergiants in M33 (Ivanov+ 1993)
J/ApJS/91/347 A 5-GHz VLA Survey of the Galactic Plane (Becker+ 1994)
J/ApJS/93/161 CCD photometry of 6 globular clusters (Sarajedini+ 1994)
J/ApJS/94/749 RI photometry of cool dwarfs (Kirkpatrick+ 1994)
J/ApJS/95/401 Clusters of galaxies position angles (Plionis 1994)
J/ApJS/96/123 H-magnitudes of spiral galaxies (Tormen+ 1995)
J/ApJS/96/303 Calibrating Broad Band X-ray Telescope (Weaver+ 1995)
J/ApJS/96/343 Redshifts of rich clusters of galaxies (Quintana+ 1995)
J/ApJS/98/369 Survey of Markarian galaxies (Bicay+ 1995)
J/ApJS/105/475 Observations of double stars. XVII. (Heintz 1996)
J/ApJS/106/399 Seyfert 2 galaxies multiwavelength catalog (Polletta+ 1996)
J/ApJS/107/1 Morphologies of distant galaxies II (Abraham+ 1996)
J/ApJS/107/19 MRC/1Jy Radio source survey. I. (McCarthy+ 1996)
J/ApJS/107/227 Supplement to Second EGRET Catalog (Thompson+ 1996)
J/ApJS/107/239 327 MHz survey of the galactic plane (Taylor+ 1996)
J/ApJS/109/367 4C 23.56 field deep imaging (Knopp+ 1997)
J/ApJS/111/143 Virgo cluster ultraviolet sources (Brosch+ 1997)
J/ApJS/111/203 Chemo-evolutionary Population Synthesis II. (Vazdekis+ 1997)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
J/PASP/106/828 BVRI photometry of Omega Cen (Walker 1994)
J/PASP/107/324 Northern CV secondary photometric standards (Henden+ 1995)
Astronomicheskij Zhurnal
J/AZh/62/229 Giant H II region Ratan-600 obs. (Berlin+ 1985)
J/AZh/71/110 Supernova Remnants at Meter Wavelengths (Kovalenko+ 1994)
J/AZh/71/200 Spectral Investigation of NGC 7469 (Doroshenko+, 1994)
J/AZh/71/352 Objects of 1988 Zenith Sky Survey (Verkhodanov, 1994)
J/AZh/71/468 Spectrophotometric Standards near the Pole (Tereshchenko, 1994)
J/AZh/71/572 Spectroscopic observations of V380 Ori (Shevchenko, 1994)
J/AZh/71/588 Study of Two HgMn Stars (Zakharova, 1994)
J/AZh/71/618 UBVJHKLM Photometry of Nova Cygni 1992 (Kolotilov+, 1994)
J/AZh/71/706 BV photometry of galactic nuclei (Silchenko, 1994)
J/AZh/71/717 Polarimetric Observations of BL Lac (Gagen-Torn+ 1994)
J/AZh/72/12 Spectroscopy of Sources from 87GB Catalog (Mingaliev+, 1995)
J/AZh/72/22 A 95 GHz Survey of Methanol Masers (Valtts+, 1995)
J/AZh/72/80 Primary Spectrophotometric Standards (Mironov+, 1995)
J/AZh/72/291 Variability at Frequencies 3.9 and 7.5 GHz (Gorshkov+, 1995)
J/AZh/73/194 Circumstellar Disks of Ae/Be Herbig Stars (Grinin+ 1996)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
J/MNRAS/224/61 NGC 6649 UBV photometry (Walker+ 1987)
J/MNRAS/224/453 Velocity data of rich clusters (Colless+ 1987)
J/MNRAS/282/779 7C 151-MHz survey of region 9-16h 20-35deg (Waldram+ 1996)
J/MNRAS/284/265 Rotational Velocities of 373 OB stars (Howarth+ 1997)
J/MNRAS/285/898 A3556 radio properties (Venturi+ 1997)
J/MNRAS/287/472 Southern Milky Way galaxies velocities (Di Nella+ 1997)
J/MNRAS/289/729 BVRIJHK photometry of red LMC supergiants (Oestreicher+ 1997)
Pis'ma v Astronomicheskij Zhurnal
J/PAZh/21/13 New list of OB associations (Melnik+, 1995)
J/PAZh/21/596 BVR photometry of NGC 6584 (Samus+ 1995)
J/PAZh/23/458 Close binary system V502 Cyg in Cyg T2 (Zakirov, 1997)
Publications of the Kinematika Fizika Nebesnykh Tel. (kiev)
J/other/KFNT/12.20 Nearby stars metallicities (Zakhozhaj+ 1996)
Publications of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory
J/other/PBeiO/16.18 Physical data of the FK stars (Luo+ 1990)
J/other/PBeiO/18.7 Far infrared Seyfert galaxies (Liu 1991)
J/other/PBeiO/24.71 CPASJ2 catalogue (Lu+, 1994)
Publications of the Astronomische Nachrichten
J/other/AN/316.225 UBVR photoelectric survey (Andruk+ 1995)
UPDATED CATALOGS AND JOURNAL TABLES
Standard documentation has been added to the following catalogs:
III. Spectroscopic Data
3013 Vyssotsky's Catalogues 1950.0 (Vyssotsky+ 1943,46,52,56,58)
3059 Catalogue and Bibliography of Mn-Hg Stars (Schneider 1981)
IV. Cross Identifications
4017A HD,HDE,DM Identifications in Open Clusters (Mermilliod 1986)
VII. Non-Stellar and Extended Objects
7177 Redshifts and Vel Dispersions for Abell Clusters (Struble,Rood 1991)
Data reformated or corrected:
I. Astrometric and Positional Data
1130 LDS Catalogue: Doubles with Common Proper Motion (Luyten 1940-87)
1196 Hipparcos Input Catalogue, Version 2 (Turon+ 1993)
1206 Bright Stars Supplement, PPM and PPM South Star Cat (Bastian+ 1993)
1237 The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1996.0 (Worley+, 1996)
II. Photometric Data
2086 Ultraviolet Bright-Star Spectrophot Suppl (Macau-Hercot+ 1978)
2190 IRAS Minor Planet Survey (IMPS) (Tedesco 1992)
2207 Palomar-Green catalog UV-excess stellar objects (Green+ 1986)
III. Spectroscopic Data
3083 IUE Low-Dispersion Spectra Ref Atlas I, Normal Stars (Heck+ 1984)
3148A Interstellar Lines Catalogue (Garcia 1991)
V. Combined and Derived Data
5068A Stellar Maser Observations (Benson+ 1990)
VI. Miscellaneous Data
6081 Planetary Solutions VSOP87 (Bretagnon+ 1988)
6088 Ephemerides of Pluto (PLUTO95) (Chapront+ 1995)
VII. Non-Stellar and Extended Objects
7185 IRAS 1.2Jy Redshift Survey (Strauss+ 1990,92,95)
Data reformated or corrected:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
J/MNRAS/254/655 Interferometer phase calibration sources. I (Patnaik+ 1992)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/105/39 Evolutionary sequences V. (Fagotto+ 1994)
J/A+AS/105/311 On the spectra and photometry of M-giant stars (FLUKS 1994)
J/A+AS/110/81 Methanol masers towards IRAS sources (van der Walt+ 1995)
J/A+AS/120/139 Variables in Omega Cen Fields 5139A-C (Kaluzny+ 1996)
J/A+AS/122/471 Variables in Omega Cen Fields 5139D-F (Kaluzny+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/521 Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. I. (Simien+ 1997)
J/A+AS/126/73 BVRI photometry in dark globules (Lahulla+ 1997)
Astronomical Journal
J/AJ/108/1163 Radio structure of Quasars (Kellermann+ 1994)
J/AJ/112/2471 The Ursa Major cluster. I. (Tully+ 1996)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/95/387 Universidad Complutense de Madrid list 1 (Zamorano+ 1994)
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