In this issue Ed Shaya describes a prototype article mark-up language developed at the ADC that incorporates scientific data mark-up to provide an integrated scientist-friendly solution for scientific manuscript publishing.
Nils Odegard summarizes the availability of Dr. William Buscombe's MK spectral classification catalogs at the ADC. This important series of catalogs contains MK spectral types and UBV photometry compiled from extensive literature searches.
There have been some recent changes to the membership of the committee that advises the ADC and the ADF in a scientific capacity. See the article below for the details.
Most publication houses are using SGML for electronic mark-up of pages intended for hardcopy. Since XML is a major subset of SGML, with W3C backing and greater database compatibility, many publication houses are naturally considering switching to or including XML.
ADC staff have been considering an important logical step in the publication process leading to electronic mark-up by the publishers. That is the authoring process. If authors were also to switch to XML for their manuscripts, it would greatly reduce the work load at the publishing houses and reduce the number of errors that are introduced in the translation process. XML is also a logical progression for authors since it is rapidly becoming incorporated into editors such as Word Perfect, Notepad, Emacs, etc. There is an XML standard for equation markup, MathML, and equation editors exist for it. It is easy to display these manuscripts on the Web; all one needs is to link to a standard cascading style sheet (CSS2).
At the ADC we are working out details of a scientific XML data (table/image) format. Eventually, something along these lines can be used as an end-to-end solution for data from experiment/observation through analysis to publication. The use of an article mark-up language that incorporates the scientific data mark-up can provide an integrated scientist-friendly solution for scientific manuscript publishing.
With fewer transformations needed on article text, equations, and tables, less human intervention will be required and fewer human errors will be introduced. Proofing documents may someday become unnecessary for those manuscripts that are submitted at the outset in XML form to publication houses.
For a demonstration of an early prototype of such a language see our article.dtd web page.
A major source of stellar MK spectral classifications is the series of fifteen catalogs that have been issued over the years by Dr. William Buscombe and his collaborators at Dearborn Observatory. Each catalog in the series contains MK spectral types and UBV photometry compiled from an extensive literature search, and each is essentially self-contained with a separate selection of stars.
In recent months, some of these catalogs have been newly ingested into the ADC's holdings using electronic data tables provided by Dr. Buscombe and his collaborator Bruce Foster. We have also reinstated some other catalogs in the series that were mistakenly classified in our holdings as superseded. We acknowledge contributions of F. Ochsenbein(CDS) and S. Nishimura (ADAC/NAOJ) to the ingest work and quality checking. The status of each catalog in the series is summarized in the following table.
| MK1 | Superseded by ADC 3018B (Jaschek+ 1964) | |
| MK2 | 1974 Superseded by ADC 3078 (Kennedy 1983) | |
| MK3 | 1977 ADC 3052, recently reinstated | |
| MK4 | 1980 Electronic version received, not yet ingested | |
| MK5 | 1981 Electronic version in preparation at Dearborn Obs. | |
| MK6 | 1984 Electronic version not available | |
| MK7-MK11 | 1988-1994 ADC 3189, recently reinstated | |
| MK12 | 1995 Originally ADC 3189A, reinstated as ADC 3223 | |
| MK13 | 1998 ADC 3206 | |
| MK14 | 1999 ADC 3222 | |
| MK15 | 2001 Electronic version received, not yet ingested |
Other important MK spectral classification catalogs in the ADC holdings include ADC 3042 (Jaschek 1978) and the catalogs of Houck and her collaborators at the University of Michigan (ADC 3031B, 3051B, 3080, 3133, 3214) for HD stars.
The ADC's parent organization, the Astrophysics Data Facility, first constituted its Science Steering Committee (SSC) in 1996. This Committee consists of members of the scientific community who volunteer to provide scientific guidance to the ADF and the ADC. Recently two of the original members of the committee, Drs. Ken Seidelmann (U. Va.) and Ron Downes (StScI), have left the SSC. The ADC extends its gratitude to both for their years of service.
Two new members have joined the SSC. They are Dr. Sean Urban of the US Naval Observatory, and Dr. Menas Kafatos, the Director of the Center for Earth Observing and Space Research at George Mason University. The ADC welcomes Drs. Kafatos and Urban.
More information on the SSC can be found at http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/ssc.html
The following catalogs and journal tables are currently available from the ADC repository. The ADC gratefully acknowledges the CDS, and individual authors who have recently contributed to our repository.
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.
ID# Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)
1272 M2000: Bordeaux Carte du Ciel zone +11<Dec<+18 (Rapaport+, 2001)
3226 Rotational Velocities of Stars (Glebocki+ 2000)
8066 IRAM observations in pre-star forming regions (Falgarone+ 1998-2001)
J/A+A/356/590 The CORALIE survey for extrasolar planets II (Udry+, 2000)
J/A+A/364/712 BV photometry in Draco molecular cloud (Penprase+, 2000)
J/A+A/370/78 RATAN-600 NCP bright radio sources (Mingaliev+, 2001)
J/A+A/373/1032 Radio emission from planetary nebulae (Siodmiak+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/132 CCD photometry and astrometry of double stars (Lampens+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/265 LTE spectrum synthesis in magnetic atmospheres (Wade+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/394 Gas and stars kinematics in disc galaxies (Vega Beltran+ 2001)
J/A+A/374/504 UBVI photometry of NGC 7654 (Pandey+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/638 RY Sct UBVR photometry (Djurasevic+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/712 Photometric observations of comets (Szabo+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/861 Positions of giant radio galaxies (Schoenmakers+ 2001)
J/A+A/374/907 The Hamburg/SAO Survey for ELGs. V. (Ugryumov+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/968 Photometric and kinematic properties of LPVs (Mennessier+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/1049 Photometry of FK Com for 1993-2001 (Korhonen+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/1056 V1162 Ori variations (Arentoft+, 2001)
J/A+A/374/1085 Mg II K line Wilson-Bappu relationship (Cassatella+, 2001)
J/A+A/375/L27 HD 80606b, a planet on an extremely elongated orbit (Naef+ 2001)
J/A+A/375/30 Radial velocities in open clusters (Mermilliod+, 2001)
J/A+A/375/130 New PMS spectroscopic binaries in Orion (Covino+ 2001)
J/A+A/375/205 The CORALIE survey for extrasolar planets V (Naef+ 2001)
J/A+A/375/275 Asteroidal I, J, K in the DENIS Survey (Baudrand+ 2001)
J/A+A/375/308 Extension of ICRF for selected areas down to V#15 (Camargo+ 2001)
J/A+A/375/863 Photometry in NGC 2516 (Jeffries+, 2001)
J/A+A/375/909 RR Lyrae stars in the Sgr dwarf (Cseresnjes 2001)
J/A+A/375/989 JHK photometry of Praesepe low-mass stars (Bouvier+, 2001)
J/A+A/376/158 SV Cam BVR light curves (Albayrak+, 2001)
J/A+A/376/333 Einstein A-coefficients for C_3_H_4_ (Sharma+, 2001)
J/A+A/376/356 Diatomic molecules collisional rates (Chandra+, 2001)
J/A+A/376/745 CCD standards for U and I in NGC 7790 (Petrov+, 2001)
J/A+AS/134/401 4C equatorial sample VLA observations. II. (Jackson+, 1999)
J/ApJS/134/77 ASCA Galactic Plane Survey faint X-ray sources (Sugizak+, 2001)
J/AZh/71/762 Radio luminosities of 232 pulsars (Malov+, 1994)
J/AZh/73/67 Energy distribution of G,K and M stars (Knyazeva+, 1996)
J/AZh/78/408 Variability of Cyg X-1 in 1994-1998 (Karitskaya+, 2001)
J/MNRAS/325/1002 Photometric and redshift catalog of 581 galaxies (Willis+ 2001)
J/PAZh/24/145 UBVR photometry of V1481 Cyg (Zakirov+, 1998)
J/PAZh/25/18 Spectroscopy of H{alpha} blue stars in M 33 (Sholukhova+, 1999)
J/PAZh/25/209 Variability of peculiar star HD 108 (Barannikov+, 1999)
J/PAZh/26/115 Spectrum of IRAS 23304+6147 (Klochkova+, 2000)
J/PAZh/26/525 UBVRI photometry of V1016 Ori (Bondar+, 2000)
J/PAZh/26/535 UBV photometry of UV Cas (Doroshenko+, 2000)
J/PAZh/26/695 IR photometry of V1016 Cyg and HM Sge (Taranova+, 2000)
J/PAZh/27/250 Rotation curves for 135 edge-on galaxies (Makarov+, 2001)
J/PAZh/27/381 Spectroscopic study of BM Ori (Vitrichenko+, 2001)
J/PAZh/27/393 IR photometry of of five long-period binaries (Taranova+, 2001)
J/PAZh/27/403 CCD R photometry in the UMa supercluster (Kopylova+, 2001)
J/PAZh/27/442 Close binary system EQ Ori (Zakirov, 2001)
J/PAZh/27/456 Astrometric study of ADS 48 (Kiyaeva+, 2001)
ID# Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)
Data updated or corrected:
2097 ANS UV Catalogue of Point Sources (Wesselius+ 1982)
3086 SKYLAB S-019 Far-UV Objective-Prism Spectrophot (Henize+ 1979)
3215 7th Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars (van der Hucht, 2001)
6098A Stark broadening of H lines (Stehle+, 1999)
8004 Fourth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources (4C; Pilkington+ 1965-67)
J/A+A/275/163 Luminous Carbon stars in Galactic Plane (Kastner+ 1993)
J/A+A/275/201 Stroemgren photometry of Dwarf Novae (Echevarria+ 1993)
J/A+A/277/453 OH maser survey of cool IRAS sources (David+ 1993)
J/A+A/279/567 Abundances of non-type I PNe in LMC (Freitas Pacheco+ 1993)
J/A+A/281/465 Chemical Composition of alf UMi and V473 Lyr (Andrievsky+ 1994)
J/A+A/309/116 10 globular cluster ROSAT observations (Johnston+, 1996)
J/A+A/368/835 Soft X-ray sources in the Galactic Center region (Sidoli+, 2001)
J/A+A/373/153 CCD {Delta}a-photometry of 5 open clusters (Paunzen+, 2001)
J/AJ/105/1822 Open clusters near eta Car (Cudworth+ 1993)
J/AJ/121/2148 Precise spectral types for 372 A, F & G stars (Gray+, 2001)
J/A+AS/58/39 1412 MHz catalogue of Westerbork survey. II (Windhorst+, 1984)
J/A+AS/80/149 IRAS Sources behind the Solar circle (Wouterloot+ 1989
J/PAZh/27/83 Nuclear activity of NGC 4151 in 1989-2000 (Doroshenko+, 2001)
ReadMe file revisited:
J/A+A/282/436 Abundance gradients from disk PNs (Maciel+ 1994)
J/A+A/285/247 Molecules in O- and C-rich envelopes (Bujarrabal+ 1994)
J/A+A/315/348 BVI photometry of two Orion galaxies (Karachentsev+ 1996)
J/A+AS/102/251 Objective-prism survey of em. objects in M31 (Meyssonnier+ 1993)
J/A+AS/102/269 Lab. and solar highly-excited levels of Fe I (Nave+ 1993)
J/A+AS/102/361 Li abundances in galactic C-stars (Boffin+ 1993)
J/A+AS/102/607 Stark widths of FeII lines (Puric+ 1993)
J/A+AS/103/83 Line identifications in a fireball spectrum (Borovicka 1994)
Additional data added:
J/A+A/372/173 ISOCAM observations of the rho Ophiuchi cloud (Bontemps+, 2001)
J/A+A/317/423 Revised photometry of SNIa (Patat, 1997)
J/A+AS/112/125 Lightcurves of minor planets (Hainaut-Rouelle+, 1995)
J/A+AS/117/93 Spectra of 21 late-type stars (Serote Roos+, 1996)
Reinstated:
3052 MK Spectral Classifications, 3rd General Catalogue (Buscombe 1977)
3189 7th-11th Catalogues of MK Spectral Classification (Buscombe+ 1994)
3223 12th General Catalogue of MK Spectral Classification (Buscombe+ 1995)
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