The Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM
Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume I
Doc. No. STX-T-1-5002-009-91
Lee E. Brotzman
Susan E. Gessner
Prepared for:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Prepared by:
ST Systems Corp.
4400 Forbes Blvd.
Lanham, MD 20706
In June, 1989, the Astronomical Data Center (ADC), a part of the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)/World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A-R&S), released a Compact Disc Read-Only-Memory (CD-ROM) as a test of this low-cost, high-capacity optical medium for distribution of tabular astronomical data. The ADC CD-ROM Test Disc contained 31 astronomical catalogs in text files and Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) tables. Nearly 400 copies have been distributed to researchers in 18 countries. The disc is used in mountain-top and airborne observatories, laboratories, offices and private homes for planning observing runs, basic research, and as a reference tool.
Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume I, hereafter referred to as the ADC CD-ROM, is the first in a series of large-scale operational CD-ROM distributions by the Astronomical Data Center, with an initial production run of 2000 two-disc sets. The discs contain 114 catalogs for a total of 630 Megabytes of data. On Disc No. 1, the catalogs are stored as plain text files. Disc No. 2 holds the same catalogs in FITS table format. Every catalog is accompanied by documentation describing the content and format of its data files. All documents are stored as simple text-files. Approximately twenty percent of the documents also appear in TEX or LaTEX format.
In the process of preparing the catalogs for CD-ROM, many errors and inconsistencies were discovered and corrected with the collaboration and consent of the authors. Several new catalogs are being released to the public for the first time in either their final form, or in nearly-complete preliminary form. These include the Astrographic Catalog Reference Stars (Corbin & Urban 1991), the International Reference Stars (Corbin 1991), the General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes (van Altena et al 1991), the Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions, Southern Part (R"oser 1991), the Bright Star Catalogue, 5th edition (Hoffleit & Warren 1991), the Catalogue of Nearby Stars, 3rd edition (Gliese & Jahreiss 1991), the Eighth Catalogue of the Orbital Elements of Spectroscopic Binary Systems Batten et al. 1989), and the SAO/J2000/HD/DM/GC Cross Index (Roman 1991). See Appendix A for the complete references to these catalogs.
The catalogs were selected in cooperation with the international astronomical data centers. The international data centers are described in the booklet accompanying the CD-ROM. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) provided funds to help defray the costs of distributing the CD-ROMs to astronomers in developing nations.
This section discusses the hardware and software requirements, general layout, naming conventions, and file formats for the ADC CD-ROM. See Appendix A for a list of all the catalogs, their locations on the discs, and complete references.
CD-ROM technology has been implemented for nearly every computing platform, the most common being the IBM PC, Apple Macintosh, most varieties of UNIX workstations, and VAX VMS machines. How one goes about installing and operating a CD-ROM drive depends on the platform. A thorough discussion of the topic is clearly beyond the scope of this document. On the following pages, it is assumed that the reader is in possession of a working CD-ROM drive and is familiar with its operation.
In general, though, it is important to know that the ADC CD-ROM has been made with the volume and directory specifications laid down in the ISO 9660 Standard, not its precursor called High Sierra Format. For users of MS-DOS computers, this means one must have Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions Version 2.0 or later in order to read the disc. Users of Macintosh, UNIX, or VAX/VMS computers should check to make sure that the driver software they have is compatible with the ISO 9660 Standard.
There are no executable programs or any other binary data on the CD-ROM; all the data are in the form of ASCII characters. All of the data files should be accessible to ordinary tools that manipulate character data, such as browse and list programs.
The ADC CD-ROM discs are divided into eight major subdirectories, as follows:
Disc 1 Disc 2 DOCUMENT Overall documentation for the CD-ROMs and the LaTEX style
file ADC.STY invoked by most of the LaTEX catalog documents.
Within the latter seven astronomical discipline subdirectories, each catalog resides in its own subdirectory.
How one navigates the subdirectories depends on the specific host computer operating system, and CD-ROM driver software being used. In the remainder of this document, MS-DOS directory names will be used, without the drive letter specification, e.g., \ASTROM\AGK3\AGK3.DOC is the pathname of the document file for the AGK3 Catalogue. If the CD-ROM reader is installed as drive F, the full name should be prefixed with "F:". Under the UNIX operating system, this file may be called /cd/astrom/agk3/agk3.doc, under VMS it may be SYS$CDROM:[ASTROM.AGK3]AGK3.DOC. The system documentation for one's own CD-ROM drive and interface software should describe the appropriate method for specifying pathnames.
Within each catalog subdirectory, file names are restricted to no more than eight characters plus a three character extension. This follows the naming rules for Level 1 of the ISO 9660 Standard.
There are only two basic file formats on the ADC CD-ROM: MS-DOS text files and FITS tables. Disc 1 contains only text files; Disc 2 contains a mix of FITS tables and text files.
In text files, all the records are separated from each other by an end-of- line sequence consisting of a carriage return (decimal value 13; hex 0D) and a linefeed (decimal value 10; hex 0A). References to the end-of-line sequence will be abbreviated as CR/LF throughout the rest of this document.
The FITS tables were written to conform to the NASA/OSSA Office of Standards and Technology (NOST) FITS Implementation Draft Standard (NOST 100-0.2g). This standard in turn is based on the IAU FITS table standard (as defined in Harten, R.H., Grosbol, P., Greisen, E.W., and Wells, D.C. 1988, A&AS, 73, 365). A copy of the NOST document is available by anonymous FTP from NASA Science Internet node NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV in subdirectory FITS, or by contacting:
NASA/OSSA Office of Standards and Technology
Code 933
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt MD 20771
Internet: nost@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
DECNET: NSSDCA::NOST
Phone: 301-286-3575
FITS tables are byte streams that consist of 2880-byte fixed-length logical records without any intervening CR/LF sequences or other carriage control. The file extension denotes the kind of information that can be found in a particular file, as follows:
DAT Catalog data files, text file format. Trailing blanks at the end of
the catalog records were left intact, so the records are of fixed
length. The actual record length is two bytes longer than that given
in the catalog documentation, because of the CR/LF sequence between
each record.
For example, the record length of the file of references for the
Revised Catalogue of Stellar Rotational Velocities
(\SPECTRO\ROTVEL\REFS.DAT) is given in the documentation as 80
bytes. The actual record length on Disc 1 would then be 82 bytes,
including the CR/LF. With this information it is possible to write a
program that performs direct access reads of file records keyed by
record number. To find the position of a record, R, given the record
length, L, and assuming that byte position 0 is the first character
of the file, the formula:
POS = (R-1)*(L+2)
yields the byte offset of the first character in the record.
Some catalogs, such as spectrophotometric atlases, could not be
usably translated into FITS format. In order to have a complete
collection of catalogs on both discs, these catalogs are stored on
Disc 2 in text-file format.
DOC Catalog documentation file. The documents describe in detail the
individual fields for each catalog file, as well as overall
characteristics like the record length and the number of records.
It is strongly recommended that the documentation be printed and
studied thoroughly before work with a catalog begins.
Catalog documents are text files with variable-length records. Page
separators are indicated by the form-feed character (decimal value
12; hex 0C). The documents can be printed on any laser, dot-matrix,
or impact printer that accepts ASCII carriage control characters.
The recommended printer settings are 12 characters per inch
horizontal spacing and 60 lines per page.
The catalog documents contain only standard ASCII characters.
Superscripts are indicated by a carat (^) character, subscripts by
an underscore (_) and greek letters are replaced by their english
names (alpha, beta, etc.). The original documentation came from many
different sources (see Section 3.2.1), so the amount of information
and the way it is layed out in the text file varies.
HDR FITS table extension header in text file format. Header files appear
only on Disc 1; on Disc 2 the headers have been incorporated into
the FITS files themselves. The header file refers to the catalog
data file of the same name, for instance, SAO.HDR is the FITS header
which describes SAO.DAT. Header files are in text file format with
82-byte records (80 bytes data plus CR/LF).
FIT Standard FITS table extension file for the catalog. FITS files
appear only on Disc 2. For most catalogs which have more than one
table (file), all tables are concatenated into a single FITS file,
as outlined in the NOST FITS Implementation Standard sections
describing FITS generalized extensions and the FITS table
extensions. As mentioned above, some catalogs could not be usably
translated into FITS files. For these cases, text-file versions are
stored on Disc 2, rather than FITS files.
The FITS files are meant to be used mainly for loading the catalogs
into the major astronomical data analysis packages such as AIPS,
IDL, IRAF, MIDAS, or STSDAS. Software for manipulating FITS tables
on IBM PC and Apple Macintosh computers is available from the NSSDC.
TEX Catalog documentation in LaTEX. Some files with this extension were
provided by the original catalog author(s) and may be in plain TEX.
About twenty percent of the catalogs in the collection have
accompanying LaTEX files. The style file, ADC.STY, which is stored
in the DOCUMENT subdirectory, is invoked by all of the LaTEX
documents that originate from the ADC.
Since CD-ROM is a read-only medium, the TEX files should be copied
to a writable medium for processing into typeset documents.
TXT General text file providing brief information about a catalog.
3 CD-ROM Catalog Data Processing
3.1 Selecting the Data
The ADC archives hold more than 600 astronomical catalogs containing many
different types of data. Users of the data come from all astronomical
disciplines. Selection of a limited number of these catalogs required balancing
the popularity of standard reference catalogs with the scientific usefulness of
recently released and other lesser known datasets.
At the request of Dr. Carlos Jaschek, the directors of each of the
international astronomical data centers were asked to provide a "wish-list" of
the catalogs they would like to see on the ADC CD-ROM. The results were tallied
and work began on the resulting list of 65 catalogs. Several other catalogs
were added to the list by inspecting the request logs of the ADC and selecting
the ones that were in the highest demand. The final list of 114 catalogs was
completed with the recommendations of the ADC staff scientists, Dr. Wayne H.
Warren Jr. and Dr. Nancy G. Roman, who in many cases solicited final or
nearly-complete preliminary versions of several important catalogs from the
authors.
3.2 Catalog File Processing
In preparation for this CD-ROM set, every catalog was inspected and certain
object identifiers were put into a consistent format. The most common
identifier for stellar objects, the Durchmusterung (DM) number, is one of the
most highly variable in format. To the greatest degree possible, the DM numbers
and other stellar identifiers have been put into a consistent format in all
catalogs in which they appear. The same was done for nonstellar objects.
Astronomical nomenclature being what it is, however, no absolutely consistent
and universal naming scheme was possible within the scope of this project.
While generating the homogenous object names, especially the DM identifiers,
many misidentifications were corrected. Several other substantive errors were
found and corrected in collaboration with the catalog authors.
The FITS headers are also as uniform as possible, with homogeneous naming
systems for both data fields and physical units. The names of the units follow
the recommendations in the IAU Style Guide (Transactions of the IAU 1988) as
closely as possible. Field names consist of upper and lower case letters,
digits, and underscores. No two field names in a single table header differ
only in the case of the letters, i.e., one will not find "u_b" and "U_B" in the
same FITS header. There is no guarantee that field names are unique within the
first eight characters, however, so all characters in a field name should be
considered significant.
The FITS tables were prepared using the ETFITS program kindly supplied to
the ADC by Dr. Preben Grosbol, European Southern Observatory. This program
rigorously tests the validity of the FITS headers, and reads every field in
every row of the table using the format given in the header. During this
process, many formatting errors were discovered and corrected. Of the 114
catalogs, 20 (18%) had one or more numerical format errors.
3.2.1 Documentation
Over most of its thirteen-year history, the ADC has distributed data on
magnetic tape with hardcopy documentation. The documents were written with a
variety of word processors and type-setting programs.
For some documents, the original computer-readable versions were lost. Text
file versions were created by scanning the hardcopy on a Kurzweil 5100 Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) system. Most documents were in the format of an
obsolete word-processor and were converted to plain ASCII with a simple text
editor. More recent documents (circa 1987 and later) were typeset using the
SCRIPT/VS text processing system on an IBM 3081. An automated format-conversion
routine was written that translated the SCRIPT/VS typesetting commands into
equivalent LaTEX commands.
No effort was expended to put all of the documents into a single, unified
layout. Each document appears essentially the same as its hardcopy counterpart.
LaTEX documents were converted into plain text file format with the help of the
DVI2TTY program written by Marcel Mol et al.
4 Acknowledgments
Many people have helped us in the creation of this CD-ROM set. First and
foremost are the researchers that have contributed their data to the ADC for
archival over the years.
Drs. Nancy Roman and Wayne Warren were indispensible. They gave advice on
catalog selection, provided catalog documentation, provided DM identifications,
corrected many errors, and responded to a whole host of other requests.
Dr. Carlos Jaschek (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg) was
instrumental in obtaining the support of the IAU and has given much of his time
to this project.
The IAU has provided a grant to defray the costs of distributing the CD-ROMs
to astronomers in developing nations. The recognition of our efforts and the
support and encouragement of the international astronomical community is
greatly appreciated.
The following people provided data and/or documentation especially for this
CD-ROM distribution, often under great time pressure and always with
enthusiasm: Dr. H. G. Corwin (California Institute of Technology), Dr. N.
Cramer (Observatoire de Geneve), Dr. C. Davenhall (Royal Observatory), Dr. B.
Hauck, Mme. M. Mermilliod and Dr. J.-C. Mermilliod (Lausanne), Ms. R. Hernandez
(Infrared Processing and Analysis Center), Dr. J. P. Huchra and Ms. Cathy
Clemens (Center for Astrophysics) Dr. H. Jahreiss, Dr. W. Gliese and Dr. S.
Roeser (Astronomische Rechen-Institut Heidelberg), Dr. B. Lasker and Dr. H.
Jenkner (Space Telescope Science Institute), Dr. F. Ochsenbien (CDS), Dr. E. M.
Standish Jr. and Dr. X X Newhall (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Dr. W. F. van
Altena, Dr. J. Lee and Dr. D. Hoffleit (Yale University), and Dr. C. Worley
(U. S. Naval Observatory).
The following people provided input into the creation of homogeneous field
names and units for the FITS table headers: Dr. F. Benedict (U. of Texas), Dr.
R. J. Hanisch (Space Telescope Science Institute), Dr. T. Pearson (CalTech),
Dr. W. Pence (NASA/GSFC), Dr. A. Rots (NASA/GSFC), Dr. R. Seaman (NOAO), and
Dr. D. Wells (NRAO).
Dr. N. Boggess and Dr. R. White (NASA/GSFC) provided the image for the front
cover of the packaging; Dr. T. P. Stecher and Dr. S. G. Neff (NASA/GSFC)
provided the images for the inside cover.
Finally, our greatest thanks goes to Dr. Jaylee M. Mead and Dr. Michael E.
Van Steenberg (NASA/GSFC) who provided the funding and direction for this
project.
This work was performed under NASA Contract NAS5-28752 (funded through
Astrophysics RTOP 188-41-51-06) and NASA Contract NAS5-30960.
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ADC CD-ROM Catalog List
Below are the physical locations (Disc 1 contains only text files and
Disc 2 contains a mix of FITS tables and text files), original pathnames,
titles and references of the ADC CD-ROM catalogs. Pathnames are fully
qualified subdirectory names using MS-DOS naming conventions.
ASTROMETRIC AND POSITIONAL DATA
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\ACRS
Astrographic Catalog Reference Stars, Corbin, T.E. and Urban,
S.E. 1991, U.S. Naval Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\AGK3
AGK3 Catalogue, Dieckvoss, W. and Heckmann, O. 1975, Hamburg-Bergedorf
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\FK4
Fourth Fundamental Catalogue and Supplement, Fricke, W. and Kopff,
A. A. 1963, Veroff. Astron. Rechen-Inst., Heidelberg, No. 10, 11
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\FK5
Fifth Fundamental Catalogue, Fricke, W., Schwan, H., and Lederle, T.
1988, Veroff. Astron. Rechen-Inst., Heidelberg, No. 32
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\GC
General Catalogue of 33342 Stars for the Epoch 1950, Boss, B. 1937,
Carnegie Inst. of Washington
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\IRS
International Reference Stars, Corbin, T.E. 1991, U.S. Naval Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\JPLEPHEM
JPL Ephemerides for 1960-2000, Mean Equator and Equinox B1950.0,
Standish Jr., E.M. 1985, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL Ephemerides for 1960-2000, Mean Equator and Equinox J2000.0,
Standish Jr., E.M. 1982, A&A, 114, 297
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\NLTT
New Luyten Catalogue of Stars with Proper Motions Larger than Two Tenths
of an Arcsecond, Luyten, W.J. 1979, 1980, University of Minnesota
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\PARALLAX
General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes, Preliminary
Version, van Altena, W.F., Lee, J.T. and Hoffleit, D. 1991, Yale
University Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\PERTH70
Perth 70, Positions of 24900 Stars, Hog, E. and von der Heide, J. 1976,
Abh. der Hamburger Sternw., Band IX, 15
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\PERTH75
Perth 75, A Catalogue of Positions of 2589 FK4 and FK4S Stars,
Nikoloff, I. and Hog, E. 1982, Perth Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\PM
Lowell Proper Motion Survey, Northern Hemisphere, Giclas, H.L., Burnham
Jr., R., and Thomas, N.G. 1971, Lowell Obs., Flagstaff, AZ
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\PPM
Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions, Northern Part, Roser, S. and
Bastian, U. 1988, A&AS, 74, 449
Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions, Southern Part, Roser, S.
et al. 1991, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\SAOJ2000
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog, SAO Staff 1966,
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\WDS
Washington Catalog of Visual Double Stars 1984.0, Worley, C.E. and
Douglass, G.G. 1984, U. S. Naval Obs., Washington
Disc 1 Disc 2 \ASTROM\YALEZONE
Yale Zone Catalogues - Integrated Version, Yale University 1939-1983,
Trans. Astron. Obs. Yale Univ., 11-32
COMBINED AND DERIVED DATA
Disc 1 Disc 2 \COMBINED\BINORBIT
Fourth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars, Worley, C.E. and Heintz,
W.D. 1983, Publ. U. S. Naval Obs. (2) 24, Part VII
Disc 1 Disc 2 \COMBINED\BSC4
The Bright Star Catalogue, 4th Revised Edition, Hoffleit, D. 1982, Yale
University Observatory [with the collaboration of C. Jaschek]
Disc 1 Disc 2 \COMBINED\BSC4S
A Supplement to the Bright Star Catalogue, Hoffleit, D., Saladyga, M.,
and Wlasuk, P. 1983, Yale University Obs.
Disc 1 Disc 2 \COMBINED\BSC5
The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Edition, Preliminary Version,
Hoffleit, D. and Warren, W. 1991, Yale University Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \COMBINED\NEARBYST
Catalogue of Nearby Stars, 3rd Edition, Gliese, W. and Jahreiss, H. 1991,
Veroff. Astron. Rechen-Inst. Heidelberg
Disc 1 Disc 2 \COMBINED\SPBIN
Eighth Catalogue of the Orbital Elements of Spectroscopic Binary Systems,
Batten, A.H., Fletcher, J.M., and MacCarthy, D.G. 1989, Publ. DAO, 17
Disc 1 Disc 2 \COMBINED\STAR25PC
Catalogue of Stars within 25 Parsecs of the Sun, Woolley, R.v.d.R.,
et al. 1970, Royal Obs. Ann. 5
CROSS IDENTIFICATIONS
Disc 1 Disc 2 \CROSSID\OPENCLUS
Catalogue of HD, HDE and DM Identifications for Stars in Open Clusters,
Mermilliod, J.-C. 1986, A&AS 63, 293
Disc 1 Disc 2 \CROSSID\SAOHDDM
SAO/J2000/HD/DM/GC Cross Index, Roman, N.G. 1991, Astronomical Data
Center
Disc 1 Disc 2 \CROSSID\WDSDMHD
WDS/DM/HD/ADS Cross Index, Roman, N.G. 1987, Astronomical Data Center
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Disc 1 Disc 2 \MISC\CONSTELL
Catalogue of Constellation Boundary Data, Davenhall, A.C. and Leggett,
S.K. 1989
Disc 1 Disc 2 \MISC\FINDLIST
A Finding List for Observers of Interacting Binary Systems, 5th ed.,
Wood, F.B., et al. 1980, Publ. Dept. of Astron., Univ. of Florida,
Vol. I; Wood, F.B., et al. 1980, Publ. Univ. Pennsylvania, Astron.
Ser., Vol. XII
Disc 1 Disc 2 \MISC\INTERFER
Second Catalog of Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars,
McAlister, H.A. and Hartkopf, W.I. 1988, Center for High Resolution
Angular Astronomy, Georgia State Univ., CHARA Contrib. N
Disc 1 Disc 2 \MISC\LINEIDS
Identification List of Lines in Stellar Spectra, Moore, C.E. 1959, NBS
Tech. Note 36, Finding List from "A Multiplet Table of Astrophysical
Interest"; Gratton, L. and Querci, F. , tape version
Disc 1 Disc 2 \MISC\POSS
National Geographic Society and Palomar Observatory Sky Survey Catalogue
of Plates, National Geographic Society and Palomar Observatory 1960
NONSTELLAR AND EXTENDED OBJECTS
Active Galaxies
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\ACTIVE\OPTQSO
A New Optical Catalog of Quasi-Stellar Objects, Hewitt, A. and Burbidge,
G.R. 1989, ApJS, 63, 1
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\ACTIVE\QSOAGN
A Catalogue of Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (4th Edition),
Veron-Cetty, M.-P. and Veron, P. 1989, ESO Scientific Report, No. 7
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\ACTIVE\SEYFERT
Seyfert Galaxies, Weedman, D.W. 1977, ARAAp, 15, 69; Weedman, D.W. 1978,
MNRAS, 184, 11P
Asteroids
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\ASTEROID
Asteroids II Machine-Readable Data Base - Version March 1988, Binzel, R.
P. et al., eds. 1989, Univ. of Arizona Press
Star Clusters and Associations
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\CLUSTERS\ASSOC
Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations, Supplement 1, Associations,
Ruprecht, J., Balazs, B., and White, R.E. 1981, Akademiai Kiado, Publ.
House Hungarian Acad. Sciences, Buda
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\CLUSTERS\GLOBULAR
Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. II. Globular Clusters,
Ruprecht, J., Balazs, B., and White, R.E. 1981, Akademiai Kiado, Publ.
House Hungarian Acad. Sciences, Budapest
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\CLUSTERS\OPEN
Catalogue of Open Cluster Data, 5th Edition, Lynga, G. 1987, Lund
Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\CLUSTERS\SELECTED
Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations, Alter, G., Ruprecht, J., and
Vanysek, V. 1970; Kluke, J., et al. 1975, prepared selected data from
original catalog
Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\ABZWCLUS
Catalogue of Abell and Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies, Abell, G.O. 1958,
ApJS, 3, 211; Zwicky, F., et al. 1961-68, Catalogue of Galaxies and of
Clusters of Galaxies, Pasadena: California Institute of Technology,
6 volumes
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\CGCG
Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies, I-VI, Zwicky, F. et
al. 1960-1968, (Pasadena: California Institute of Technology)
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\ESOUPP
The ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas, Lauberts, A. 1982, European
Southern Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\IRASGAL
Cataloged Galaxies and Quasars Observed in the IRAS Survey, Version 2,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center 1989
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\IRASSSS
IRAS Small Scale Structure Catalog, Helou, G. and Walker, D.W. 1985, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\MCG
Morphological Catalog of Galaxies, Vorontsov-Velyaminov, B.A. et al.
1962-1968, Trudy Gos. Astron. Inst. Shternberga
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\MCG5
Compilation of the Fifth Volume of Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies,
Kogoshvili, N.G. 1987, Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\MERCG
Merged Catalogue of Galaxies, Kogoshvili, N.G. 1986
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\MKN
Catalogue of Markarian Galaxies, Markarian, B.E. et al. 1967-1977,
Astrofis, 3-13
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\NGC2000
NGC 2000.0, The Complete New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue of
Nebulae and Star Clusters by J.L.E. Dreyer, Edited by Sinnott, R.W.
1988, Sky Publishing Corporation and Cambridge University Press
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\RC2
Second Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies, de Vaucouleurs, G., de
Vaucouleurs, A., and Corwin Jr., H.G. 1976, Univ. of Texas Press,
Austin
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\REDSHIFT
CfA Redshift Catalogue, Huchra, J.P. 1990, Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\RICHCLUS
A Catalogue of Rich Clusters of Galaxies, Abell, G.O., Corwin Jr., H.G.,
and Olowin, R.P. 1989, ApJS, 70, 1
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\RNGC
Revised New General Catalogue of Nonstellar Astronomical Objects,
Sulentic, J.W. and Tifft, W.G. 1973, Univ. of Arizona Press
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\SHAPAMES
A Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies, Sandage, A. and
Tammann, G.A. 1981, Carnegie Inst. of Washington Publ. 635
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\GALAXIES\UGC
Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies, Nilson, P. 1973, Uppsala Ann. 6
Nebulae and Supernova Remnants
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\NEBULAE\LBN
Catalogue of Bright Nebulae, Lynds, B.T. 1965, ApJS, 12, 163
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\NEBULAE\LDN
Catalogue of Dark Nebulae, Lynds, B.T. 1962, ApJS, 7, 1
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\NEBULAE\PLN
Strasbourg Catalog of Galactic Planetary Nebulae, Acker, A., Marcout, J.,
and Ochsenbein, F. 1980, CDS Bull. No. 18, p. 84
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\NEBULAE\REFLECT
Catalogue of Reflection Nebulae, van den Bergh, S. 1966, AJ, 71, 990
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\NEBULAE\HII
A Catalogue of H II Regions, Sharpless, S. 1959, ApJS, 4, 257
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\NEBULAE\SNR
A Revised Reference Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants, Green, D.A.
1988, Ap&SS, 148, 3; Green, D.A. 1991, PASP, in press
Radio Sources
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\RADIO\4C
The Fourth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources, Pilkington, J.D.H. and
Scott, P.F. 1965, MmRAS, 69, 183; Gower, J.F.R., Scott, P.F., and
Wills, D. 1967, MmRAS, 71, 49
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\RADIO\EXTRAGAL
A Catalogue of Extragalactic Radio Source Identifications, Veron-Cetty,
M.-P. and Veron, P. 1983, A&AS, 53, 219
X-Ray Sources
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\XRAY\2A
Second Ariel X-Ray Catalogue, Cooke, B.A., et al. 1978, MNRAS, 182, 489
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\XRAY\3A
The Ariel Catalogue of X-Ray Sources, Warwick, R.S., et al. 1981, MNRAS,
197, 865; McHardy, I.M., et al. 1981, MNRAS, 197, 893
Disc 1 Disc 2 \NONSTELL\XRAY\4U
Fourth UHURU X-Ray Catalogue, Forman, W., et al. 1978, ApJS, 38, 357
PHOTOMETRIC DATA
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\11COLOR
UBVRIJKLMNH Photoelectric Photometric Catalogue, Morel, M. and Magnenat,
P. 1978, A&AS, 34, 477
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\13COLOR
13-Color Photometry of 1380 Bright Stars, Johnson, H.L. and Mitchell,
R.I. 1975, Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrof., 1, 299
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\ANS
ANS Ultraviolet Photometry Catalogue of Point Sources, Wesselius, P.R.,
et al. 1982, A&AS, 49, 427
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\CIO
Catalog of Infrared Observations, Gezari, D.Y., Schmitz, M., and Mead,
J.M. 1987, NASA Ref. Pub. 1196
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\DO
Dearborn Observatory Catalogue of Faint Red Stars, Lee, O.J., et al.
1943-47, Ann. Dearborn Obs., 5
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\GCVS
General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4th Edition, Kholopov, P.N., et al.
1985-1988, Moscow: Nauka Publishing House
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\GENEVA
Stars Measured in the Geneva Photometric System, 4th Edition, Rufener,
1988, Observatoire de Geneve
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\GSPC
The Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Photometric Catalog, Lasker, B.M.,
et al. 1988, ApJS, 68, 1
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\IRASFSC
IRAS Faint Source Catalog, |b| > 10 deg, Version 2.0, Moshir, M., et al.
1989, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center 18
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\IRASPSC
IRAS Catalog of Point Sources, Version 2.0, Infrared Processing and
Analysis Center 1986 October
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\IRASSSC
IRAS Serendipitous Survey Catalog, Infrared Processing and Analysis
Center 1986 December
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\LANDOLT
UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars Around the Celestial Equator, Landolt,
A.U. 1983, AJ, 88, 439
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\LANZ
Photoelectric Photometric Catalogue in the Johnson UBVRI System, Lanz, T.
1986, A&AS, 65, 195
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\NEARBY
Photometric Data for the Nearby Stars, Hauck, B. and Mermilliod, M. 1981,
CDS Bull., No. 21, p. 35
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\NSV
New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, Kukarkin, B.V., et al. 1982,
Moscow: Nauka Publishing House
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\RAFGL
Revised AFGL Infrared Sky Survey Catalog and Supplement, Price, S.D. and
Murdock, T.L. 1983, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, AFGL-TR-83-0161
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\S201
Revised S201 Catalog of Far-Ultraviolet Objects, Page, T.L., Carruthers,
G.R., and Heckathorn, H.M. 1982, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Report
8487
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\TD1
Catalogue of Stellar Ultraviolet Fluxes, Sky Survey Telescope (S2/68)
aboard the ESRO satellite TD-1, Thompson, G.I., et al. 1978, Science
Research Council, UK
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\TMSS
Two-Micron Sky Survey, Neugebauer, G. and Leighton, R.B. 1969, NASA
SP-3047
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\UBV
UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue, Mermilliod, J.-C. 1986
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\UBVMEAS
Catalogue of Homogeneous Measurements in the UBV System, Mermilliod,
J.-C. 1991, Institut d'Astronomie, Lausanne
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\UBVOPEN
Catalogue of UBV Photometry and MK Spectral Types in Open Clusters,
Mermilliod, J.-C. 1986, CDS Bull. No. 31, p. 175
Disc 1 Disc 2 \PHOTOM\UVBYBETA
uvby,beta Photoelectric Photometric Catalog, Hauck and Mermilliod 1990,
A&AS, 86, 107
SPECTROSCOPIC DATA
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\BEDATA
Catalogue, Spectrum and Magnitude Data Bank of Be, Bp and Bpe Stars,
Page, A.A. 1984, Mt. Tamborine Obs.
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\BESTARS
Catalog of Be Stars, Jaschek, M. and Egret, D. 1982, IAU Symp. 98, 261
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\CARBON
A General Catalog of Cool Galactic Carbon Stars, 2nd Edition, Stephenson,
C.B. 1989, Publ. Warner & Swasey Obs., 3, No. 2
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\EMLINE
Catalogue of Early-Type Stars Whose Spectra Have Shown Emission Lines,
Wackerling, L.R. 1970, MmRAS, 73, 153
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\FEH
A Catalogue of [Fe/H] Determinations, 1984 Edition, Cayrel de Strobel,
G., et al. 1985, A&AS, 59, 145
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\HD
Henry Draper Catalogue and Extension 1, Cannon, A.J. and Pickering, E.C.
1918-1924, Harv. Ann. 91-99; Cannon, A.J. 1925-1936, Harv. Ann. 100
[HDE1]
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\IUELDA
IUE Low-Dispersion Spectra Reference Atlas. I. Normal Stars, Heck, A., et
al. 1984, ESA SP-1052
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\IUEOSTAR
IUE Atlas of O-Type Stellar Spectra from 1200 to 1900 Angstroms, Walborn,
N.R., Nichols-Bohlin, J., and Panek, R.J. 1985, NASA Ref. Publ. 1155
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\LSNORTH
Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way, Hardorp, J., et al. 1959, Vol.
I. (Hamburg-Bergedorf); Nassau, J.J., Stephenson, C.B., and
MacConnell, D.J. 1965, Vol. VI. (Hamburg-Bergedorf)
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\MHD
Michigan Catalogue of 2-Dimensional Spectral Types for the HD Stars,
Vol. 1, Houk, N. and Cowley, A.P. 1975, U. Michigan
Michigan Catalogue of 2-Dimensional Spectral Types for the HD Stars,
Vol. 2, Houk, N. 1978, U. Michigan
Michigan Catalogue of 2-Dimensional Spectral Types for the HD Stars,
Vol. 3, Houk, N. 1982, U. Michigan
Michigan Catalogue of 2-Dimensional Spectral Types for the HD Stars,
Vol. 4, Houk N. and Smith-Moore, M. 1988, Univ. Michigan
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\MKCLASS
Catalogue of Stellar Spectra Classified in the Morgan-Keenan System,
Jaschek, C., Conde, H., and de Sierra, A.C. 1964, La Plata Obs., Ser.
Astron., 28, N
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\MKEXT
MK Classification Extension, Morris-Kennedy, P. 1983, Mt. Stromlo Obs.
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\RADVEL
General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities, Wilson, R.E. 1953,
Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ., 601
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\ROTVEL
Revised Catalogue of Stellar Rotational Velocities, Uesugi, A. and
Fukuda, I. 1982, Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\SPATLAS
Stellar Spectrophotometric Atlas 3130-10800 A, Gunn, J.E. and Stryker,
L.L. 1983, ApJS, 52, 121
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\SPCAT
A Catalog of Stellar Spectrophotometry, Adelman, S.J., et al. 1989, A&AS,
81, 221
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\SPLIB
A Library of Stellar Spectra, Jacoby, G.H., Hunter, D.A., and Christian,
C.A. 1984, ApJS, 56, 257
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\SPSTD
Spectrophotometric Standards, Massey, P. et al. 1988, ApJ, 328, 315
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\SSTARS
General Catalogue of S Stars, Stephenson, C.B. 1976, Publ. Warner &
Swasey Obs. 2, No. 2
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\UVBS
Ultraviolet Bright Star Spectrophotometric Catalogue, Jamar, C., et al.
1976, ESA SR-27
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\UVBSSUPP
Supplement to the Ultraviolet Bright Star Spectrophotometric Catalogue,
Macau-Hercot, D., et al. 1978, ESA SR-28
Disc 1 Disc 2 \SPECTRO\WDWARF
A Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs, 3rd Edition,
McCook, G.P. and Sion, E.M. 1987, ApJS, 65, 603