Volume 8, Issue 1
January 1999
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INTRODUCTION
The ADC and its services were featured at the Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF)
exhibit booth at the January meeting of the American Astronomical Society
(AAS) at the Austin, Texas Convention Center. It was a pleasure to meet and
talk with some of you who attended. Your comments and suggestions on how to
improve ADC's services was most useful. ADC's users are also invited to
send their comments to us at the email address adc@adc.astro.umd.edu.
In addition to demonstrations of the ADC and ADF's services, the staff
at the booth distributed copies of the new educational poster entitled "The
COBE Legacy". See the article in this issue for information on this poster
and how to get it.
Staff changes are happening at the ADC. An article in this issue covers two
recent departures. New staff additions are in the works. We'll fill you in
on those next time.
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is poised to become the format of choice
for many documentation and data applications. The ADC is actively working
on defining how it will apply XML for astronomical data tables. See the
article in this issue to find out how you can learn more.
The staff of NASA Goddard's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research
Center (HEASARC) have released the latest version of their FTOOLS package.
Included is a new release of FV, a FITS file viewer and editor. This
release of FV includes versions for UNIX and MS-Windows. You can download
FV from HEASARC at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ or from ADC at
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_software.html .
- James E. Gass (Raytheon ITSS), Editor
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A New ADF Poster: The COBE Legacy
James E. Gass (Raytheon ITSS)
The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite gathered important measurements
of the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe.
Analysis of these observations has furthered our understanding of the early
universe and cosmology. A new poster highlights the scientific discoveries
from COBE. Entitled "The COBE Legacy", this poster is available at no charge
for educational purposes. The COBE Legacy poster can be ordered on-line at
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/cobe/cobeposter.html .
For more information, see the COBE Educational Resources web page located
at the address
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/cobe/ed_resources.html .
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Recent Staff Changes at the ADC
James E. Gass (Raytheon ITSS)
Since our last issue, two members of the ADC's staff have departed to pursue
new opportunities. Dr. Janet Weiland has left to join the Microwave
Anisotropy Probe (MAP) project team here at NASA Goddard. Before joining ADC,
Janet spent many years on the COBE project. As part of the Astrophysics Data
Facility (ADF) here, she worked both with the ADC and, with ADF's Dr. David
Leisawitz, on infrared and submillimeter data activities, including archiving
COBE documentation and data. With MAP, she returns to the challenges of
making a new space science mission a success.
Dr. Vince Kargatis recently left ADC and the astronomical community to foray
into the world of commercial software development. Vince is now working with
a Washington, D.C.-based firm that specializes in Internet software such as
turnkey courseware systems for universities. Before he worked on ADC's data
visualization tools, such as the ADC Data Viewer, Vince supported the ADF's
high-energy astrophysics data activities.
We'll miss you Janet and Vince! We wish you both the best of luck in your
new positions.
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XML, Astronomical Tables, and the ADC
James E. Gass (Raytheon ITSS)
XML is the eXtensible Markup Language. It is an emerging standard for digital
information markup in a network environment. It allows information (data,
metadata, documentation, resources of any kind) to be expressed in a
structured, flexible, and easily parsible manner. XML allows for descriptive
tagging of any information resource. As a result, it will allow for powerful,
focussed, and efficient contents-based search and retrieval of information.
Valid XML files follow a given Document Type Definition (DTD). Like HTML,
XML has its roots in SGML. Unlike HTML, one can easily create a new DTD
for documents or other information resources as needed. For the ADC, its staff
is developing the ADC astronomical catalog DTD. Examples of other astronomical
applications of XML are the Astronomical Markup Language (AML) created by
Damien Guillaume, and NOAO's XML DTD for telescope observing proposals.
To learn more about XML and ADC's work in this area, see the ADC XML resource
page at
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/xml/.
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Newly Acquired and Updated Catalogs/Journal Tables
Gail L. Schneider (Raytheon ITSS)
The following catalogs and journal tables are currently available from the
ADC. Journal table J/AJ/116/1, The Southern Sky Redshift Survey
(da Costa+ 1998) has been removed from the archives pending corrections to
the MCG cross identifications.
We would like to thank CDS, AAS, Dr. Heinz Andernach at the Universidad de
Guanajuato 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
ID# Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)
I. Astrometric and Positional Data
1247 The AC2000 Catalogue (Urban+ 1997)
II. Photometric Data
2218 Sternberg Supernova Catalogue (Tsvetkov+ 1998)
VII. Non-Stellar and Extended Objects
7106 Open Cluster Interstellar Matter Database (Leisawitz 1988)
7196 Shakhbazian compact groups of galaxies (Stoll+ 1993-97)
7209 Galaxies Behind the Milky Way (Saito+ 1990-91; Roman+ 1996-98)
7211 A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (Green 1998)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
J/A+A/338/340 Asteroids as IR Standards for ISOPHOT (Mueller+ 1998)
J/A+A/338/581 Field 3 Palomar-Groningen survey. II. (Schultheis+ 1998)
J/A+A/335/467 High galactic latitude RASS X-ray sources (Thomas+ 1998)
J/A+A/340/196 ubvyHbeta photometry of AB Cas (Rodriguez+ 1998)
J/A+A/340/300 Fe II oscillator strengths (Raassen+ 1998)
J/A+A/340/371 Quasar polarization (Hutsemekers+ 1998)
J/A+A/341/98 The ionizing cluster of 30 Doradus. I. (Selman+ 1999)
J/A+A/341/163 MBM 7 and MBM 55 X-ray sources (Hearty+ 1999)
J/A+A/341/121 Visual binary orbits and masses (Soederhjelm 1999)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/129/505 Effective temperatures by Infrared Flux Method (Blackwell+ 1998)
J/A+AS/130/341 Groups of Galaxies in PPS (Trasarti-Battistoni 1998)
J/A+AS/132/13 Planetary nebulae radial velocities (Durand+ 1998)
J/A+AS/132/31 Kinematical models for double radio sources (Nilsson 1998)
J/A+AS/132/83 BVRI photometry of 7 BL Lac objects (Bai+ 1998)
J/A+AS/132/93 Hipparcos photometry of CP stars (Adelman 1998)
J/A+AS/133/1 New variable chemically peculiar stars (Paunzen+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/7 V photometry of YY CMi (Niarchos+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/25 CCD BVI photometry of Trumpler 5 (Kaluzny 1998)
J/A+AS/133/29 Molecular line survey towards UC HII (Hatchell+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/123 Stellar models until He burning - IV. (Claret+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/129 B3-VLA sample 10.6 GHz data (Gregorini+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/171 The Marseille Schmidt survey I. (Surace+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/181 BVI imaging of 20 irregular galaxies (Makarova+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/197 uvby Photometry of 33 Tau, HD 50169 and HR 7786 (Adelman+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/201 Spectral class. of unidentified IRAS sources (Iyengar+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/221 Library of ELODIE spectra (F5-K7 stars) (Soubiran+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/227 Stark broadening of K VIII and K IX (Dimitrijevic+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/257 Recombination coefficients for NeII lines (Kisielius+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/299 Long-term spectroscopy of eta Carinae (Damineli+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/317 Stellar kinematical data in spiral galaxies (Heraudeau+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/325 Velocities of 12 Fornax elliptical galaxies (Graham+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/337 Dense molecular cores. VII. (Zinchenko+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/387 NGC 1817 and NGC 1807 proper motions (Balaguer-Nunnez+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/403 Ionization balance for optically thin plasmas (Mazzotta+ 1998)
Astronomical Journal
J/AJ/77/797 NRAO 5GHz Strong Source Survey (Pauliny-Toth+ 1972)
J/AJ/80/771 5-GHz Survey of Bright Galaxies (Sramek 1975)
J/AJ/89/53 E and SO galaxies survey at 2.7 and 5.0 GHz (Sadler 1984)
J/AJ/92/787 Outer galaxy VLA survey (Fich 1986)
J/AJ/105/427 IRAS fluxes of UCM galaxies (Rego+ 1993)
J/AJ/113/1733 Orion Nebula Cluster population (Hillenbrand 1997)
J/AJ/115/296 SDSS new variables (Henden+ 1998)
J/AJ/115/1801 VRI photometry of M87 globular clusters (Harris+ 1998)
J/AJ/115/1840 BV photometry in Carina dwarf galaxy (Hurley-Keller+ 1998)
J/AJ/115/1894 Eclipsing binaries and Cepheids in M31A field (Stanek+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/1789 VI Photometry of NGC 188 (von Hippel+ 1998)
Astrophysical Journal
J/ApJ/481/49 CFRS XIV. Field galaxies up to z=1 (Hammer+ 1997)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/80/211 Compact Radio Sources Near the Galactic Plane (Helfand+ 1992)
J/ApJS/113/1 CNOC cluster redshift survey catalogs. III. (Ellingson+ 1997)
J/ApJS/116/211 CNOC cluster redshift survey catalogs. IV. (Yee+ 1998)
J/ApJS/116/231 CNOC cluster redshift survey catalogs. V. (Abraham+ 1998)
J/ApJS/116/247 CNOC cluster redshift survey catalogs. VI. (Ellingson+ 1998)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
J/MNRAS/294/607 7C(G) 151MHz survey of the Galactic plane (Vessey+ 1998)
J/MNRAS/300/665 HST VI Photometry of Six LMC Old Globular Clusters (Olsen+ 1998)
J/MNRAS/301/203 408-MHz variability study (Riley+ 1998)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
J/PASP/110/533 BR photometry of Fornax bright stars (Stetson+ 1998)
J/PASP/110/553 Supernova rate in starburst galaxies (Richmond+ 1998)
Astronomische Nachrichten
J/other/AN/318.35 New and Misclassified Planetary Nebulae (Kohoutek, 1997)
Acta Astronomica
J/other/AcA/48.35 All Sky Automated Survey variable stars (Pojmamski 1998)
Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica
J/other/RMxAA/33.83 NGC 129 positions and proper motions (Stock+ 1997)
Publications of the Bull. Special Astrophys. Obs.
J/other/BSAO/40.128 RATAN-600 radio sources spectra (Bursov 1996)
EXTERNAL DATA SET LINKS
Astrometric and Positional Data External Databases
E1004 JPL's HORIZONS System (Giorgini+ 1996)
E1005 A General Catalogue of Herbig-Haro Objects (Reipurth 1994)
UPDATED CATALOGS AND JOURNAL TABLES
Star positions added:
III. Spectroscopic Data
3092 A Library of Stellar Spectra (Jacoby, Hunter, Christian 1984)
3124 Spectrophotometry of Bright F, G, K, and M Stars. I (Kiehling 1987)
Corrections added:
II. Photometric Data
2189 Supernova Studies: Magnitude Obs. of Type I Supernovae (Cadonau+ 1990)
2199A Radio Continuum Emission From Stars (Wendker 1995)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/82/41 Spectral index for B3 radio sources (Kulkarni+ 1990)
J/A+AS/124/75 Multiple star catalogue (MSC) (Tokovinin 1997)
J/A+AS/130/477 uvby{beta} photometry in 3 EUV shadow directions (Knude 1998)
J/A+AS/132/13 Planetary nebulae radial velocities (Durand+ 1998)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/107/521 Galaxies redshifts, 210<l<360, |b|<15 (Visvanathan+ 1996)
J/ApJS/115/271 UBV-beta Database for LS Stars (Reed 1998)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Society
J/MNRAS/269/151 APM cluster redshift survey (Dalton+, 1994)
J/MNRAS/289/729 BVRIJHK photometry of red LMC supergiants (Oestreicher+ 1997)
ReadMe revisited:
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/105/475 Observations of double stars. XVII. (Heintz 1996)
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