Selected Astronomical Catalogs Volume 4
NOTICE: The data contained herein are for scientific use only and have no commercial value. Use of these data in publications of any kind should be acknowledged by reference to the original authors and publication and to the ADC CD-ROM. The acknowledgment might read as follows: This paper uses data provided by Jane Astronomer in AJ,110,1992 as distributed by the Astronomical Data Center at NASA GSFC on the CD-ROM "Selected Astronomical Catalogs" Vol. 4, NASA Publication NP-1997(10)-042-GSFC, 1997.
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(3) Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg, France
This is the fourth volume in a series of CD-ROMs that present a selection of astronomical catalogs from the Astronomical Data Center (ADC). The catalogs cover a variety of subjects and were selected because they are frequently requested or because they represent updates from versions on the earlier volumes. Unlike Volumes 1 through 3 only ASCII discs were produced for Volume A program developed at the CDS (tofits) is being provided to allow users to create FITS table versions of the catalogs. Please refer to this CD-ROM as Selected Astronomical Catalogs Vol. 4, Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, NASA Publication NP-1997(10)-042-GSFC, 1997.
For each catalog a standard documentation file called "readme" was created following the standard format adopted by the Administration (NASA)/ADC and the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) in France. By using this readme file as input and software from the CDS (anafile), each catalog was checked for the proper data format, units, allowed data ranges, and correct sorting of the data as specified in the readme. During the verification process errors that were found were corrected in both the data and the documentation. Some catalog data files were reformatted to enable their description by the byte-by-byte tables in the readme.
The documentation standard applied here assures uniformity in the labeling of positional and other frequently included information. Moreover, the column label syntax has been refined to indicate in a uniform way certain relationships between table columns such as "reference to," "uncertainty flag of," "note to," "weights of," "mean error of," etc. In addition, the standard documentation file may define NULL values and specify allowed data ranges and sorting order. The catalog document which is in the document directory requires that Système International d'Unités (SI) units be used and thus complies with the IAU recommendations.
The disk has a simple layout. At the highest level there are separate directories for the catalogs, software, and additional information. The CD-ROM is formatted according to the ISO 9660 standard, and the file names have been restricted to eight characters with a three- character extension.
The data files are located in the catalogs directory identification numbers are used as subdirectory names. The software directory contains catalog browsing software. The additional document directory contains a listing of catalog and journal tables available from the ADC as of November 3, 1997, a brief overview of the ADC, and some other documents that may be useful.
The ASCII text files have extensions .dat for data, .doc for documentation, .ps for PostScript, .tex for files in LaTeX or plain TeX, .sty for LaTeX style files, .txt for text files, .hqx for binhex versions of the Macintosh software files, .bas for QBasic code, and .htm for HTML formatted files. The readme files are text files that have no extension. See the readme files for catalogs and journal publications of interest for specific information on the contents of the associated files.
Each ASCII text file record is terminated by a carriage return (decimal value 13; hex 0D) and a linefeed (decimal value 10; hex 0A). All the data files (with extension .dat) have been changed to fixed record length by padding short records with blanks. Documentation files can have a variable record length. The software files are in several forms. (See "Software for Accessing the Catalog Data".) The fv software appears in compressed form in a GNU gzip (.gz) file. Users can use gzip or gunzip to decompress it. The .gz file contains the standalone fv components packaged as a UNIX tar file. Included executables can be identified from their file name extension (.exe). The Macintosh software is provided in binhex (.hqx) files and must be converted. All the other software files are in flat ASCII format.
| Table 1. List of Catalogs on the CD-ROM | |
|---|---|
| Astrometric and Positional Data: | |
| CD-ROM | ID Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) |
![[CD icon]](images/cd.gif){kind=small} Disc | 1061B AGK3 Catalogue (Dieckvoss, Heckmann 1975) [1] |
| Disc | 1079 Lowell Proper Motion Survey 8991 Stars Northern Hem. (Giclas 1971) [1] |
| Disc | 1131A SAO Star Catalog J2000 (SAO Staff 1966; USNO, ADC 1990) [1] |
| Disc | 1141 Yale Zone Catalogues Integrated (Yale Univ. 1939-1983; ADC 1989) [1] |
| Disc | 1143 Fourth Fundamental Cat. and Suppl. (FK4, FK4S; Fricke, Kopff 1963) [1] |
| Disc | 1149A Fifth Fundamental Catalogue, Basic Fund. Stars (FK5; Fricke+ 1988) [1] |
| Disc | 1171 Astrographic Catalog Reference Stars (Corbin, Urban 1991) [1] |
| Disc | 1172 International Reference Stars (Corbin 1991) [1] |
| Disc | 1218 New Reference Frame Defined by Extragalactic Radio Source (IAU WG, 1995) |
| Photometric: | |
| CD-ROM | ID Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) |
| Disc | 2002B Two-Micron Sky Survey (TMS; Neugebauer, Leighton 1969) [1] |
| Disc | 2118 UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars, Celestial Equator (Landolt 1983) [1] |
| Disc | 2124A UBV Phot. and MK Spectral Types in Open Clusters (Mermilliod 1986) [1] |
| Disc | 2125 IRAS Catalog of Point Sources, Version 2.0 (IPAC 1986) [1] |
| Disc | 2156A IRAS Faint Source Catalog, |b| > 10, Version 2.0 (Moshir+ 1989) [1] |
| Disc | 2168 Homogeneous Means in the UBV System (Mermilliod 1991) [1] |
| Disc | 2206 Stellar Polarization Bibliography (Belous 1996) |
| Disc | 2212 A Finding List of Faint UV-Bright Stars (Lanning+ 1995) |
| Disc | 2214 General Catalog of Variable Stars (Kholopov+ 1995) |
| Disc | J/PASP/106/967 Standards: Thuan-Gunn; Johnson-Kron-Cousins (Joergensen 1994) |
| Spectroscopic Data: | |
| CD-ROM | ID Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) |
| Disc | 3063B Revised Cat. Stellar Rotational Velocities (Uesugi, Fukuda 1982) [1] |
| Disc | 3083 IUE Low-Dispersion Spectra Ref. Atlas I, Normal Stars (Heck+ 1984) [1] |
| Disc | 3088 Stellar Spectrophotometric Atlas 3130-10800 A (Gunn, Stryker 1983) [1] |
| Disc | 3116 Spectrophotometric Standards (Massey+ 1988) [1] |
| Disc | 3168 General Catalog of S Stars, Second Edition (Stephenson 1984) |
| Disc | 3182 HDE Charts: Positions, Proper Motions (Nesterov+ 1995) |
| Disc | 3184 3rd Bibliog. Cat. of Stellar Radial Vel. (Barbier-Brossat+ 1994) [1] |
| Disc | 3190A WEB Catalog Radial Velocities (Duflot+ 1995) |
| Disc | 3198 Palomar/MSU Nearby Star Spectroscopic Survey (Hawley+ 1997) |
| Cross Identification Data: | |
| CD-ROM | ID Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) |
| Disc | 4022 FK5 - SAO - HD - Common Name Cross Index (Smith 1996) |
| Combined and Derived Data: | |
| CD-ROM | ID Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) |
| Disc | 5036B A Supplement to the Bright Star Catalogue (Hoffleit+ 1983) [1] |
| Disc | 5064 Eighth Orbital Elements of Spectroscopic Binaries (Batten+ 1989) [1] |
| Disc | 5084 Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker+ 1992) |
| Disc | 5090 Catalogue of X-Ray Binaries (van Paradijs 1995) |
| Disc | 5094 Catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables (Downes+ 1997) [2] |
| Disc | 5095 SKY2000 Master Star Catalog (Myers+ 1997) |
| Miscellaneous Data: | |
| CD-ROM | ID Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) |
| Disc | 6049 Catalogue of Constellation Boundary Data (Davenhall+ 1989) [1] |
| Disc | 6069 Atomic Spectral Line List (Hirata+ 1995) |
| Disc | 6086 Bibliography of Atomic Line Identification Lists (Adelman 1996) |
| Non-Stellar and Extended Objects Data: | |
| CD-ROM | ID Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) |
| Disc | 7001B Rev. New Gen. Cat. of Nonstellar Objects (RNGC; Sulentic, Tifft 1973) [1] |
| Disc | 7004A Catalogue of Abell and Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1974) [1] |
| Disc | 7009 Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (Lynds 1965) [1] |
| Disc | 7021 Catalogue of Reflection Nebulae (van den Bergh 1966)[1] |
| Disc | 7051 A Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies (Sandage+ 1981) [1] |
| Disc | 7108C Asteroids II Machine-Readable Data Base (Binzel+ 1987) [1] |
| Disc | 7110A A Catalogue of Rich Clusters of Galaxies (Abell, Corwin, Olowin 1989)[1] |
| Disc | 7118 NGC 2000.0 (Sky Publishing 1988, ed. Sinnott) [1] |
| Disc | 7172 First Byurakan Survey (FBS) (Markarian+ 1989) [1] |
| Disc | 7190 Zwicky Galaxy Catalog (Zwicky+ 1968) [1] |
| Disc | 7202 Globular Clusters in the Milky Way (Harris 1996) |
| Disc | J/AJ/109/1498 Large Bright Quasar Survey VI (LBQS) (Hewett+ 1995) |
| Disc | J/ApJS/96/39 The Catalog of Southern Ringed Galaxies (Buta 1995) |
| Disc | J/MNRAS/278/1025 The APM Bright Galaxy Catalogue (Loveday 1996) |
| Radio Data: | |
| CD-ROM | ID Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) |
| Disc | 8038 The Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85GHz (PMN) Surveys (Griffith+ 1993-1996) |
| Disc | 8040 GB6 Catalog of Radio Sources (Gregory+ 1996) |
| Disc | J/AJ/110/1993 IRAS Bright Galaxy Survey. II (Sanders+ 1995) |
| [1] | Updated or corrected from the version published on Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 1. |
| [2] | Updated or corrected from the version published on Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 2. |
Included in this CD-ROM volume are software tools useful for browsing and/or extracting data from the catalogs. They allow the user to edit large files, do catalog specific work, or access Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) files. BBEdit Lite and Browser are for the Macintosh. FIND2 and Aurora are for IBM PC and compatibles with the MS-DOS operating system. The fv FITS file viewer is designed to work on UNIX systems. NRAO's FITSview is provided for PC, Macintosh, and Unix computers. It is for use in viewing astronomical images in FITS binary image format. NOTE THAT SOME CATALOGS INCLUDE SOFTWARE, THESE ARE PROGRAMS SPECIFIC TO THOSE CATALOGS AND ARE UNRELATED TO THE CATALOG BROWSING SOFTWARE.
Please note that the disk contains both freeware and shareware. The user is obliged to comply with the licensing agreements outlined in the documentation accompanying the software if it is used. This obligation applies to the Aurora and Browser shareware. Bare Bones Software's BBEdit Lite is freeware, as explained in the documentation accompanying it. FIND2, fv, and FITSview are freeware and are distributed "as-is" with no guarantee of any kind.
At the time of publication of this CD-ROM, the fv package, developed by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at GSFC, is only available for UNIX systems. HEASARC is currently working on versions of fv for Windows 95/NT and Macintosh OS systems. Those interested in getting these versions should check the fv Web page at the following URL: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/fv.html.
D. Swift's Browser software will allow the user to access FITS files on the Macintosh platform. Selected records may be extracted from ASCII tables using the QBasic program FIND2 provided by J.A. Watko. The Aurora and BBEdit Lite editors give access to large files such as those on the CD-ROM. Aurora is a text editor for MS-DOS from nuText Systems. It allows the editing of extremely large files (up to 1 GB in size).
Those familiar with Volumes 1 through 3 of this series will note that Volume 4 is the first volume that does not offer FITS ASCII table versions of the catalogs. For users who would like to have these catalogs in FITS table form, a software package from CDS that includes a program to convert the data files into FITS format is included. This package contains two distinct programs: (1) anafile, which checks whether the readme file describes correctly the data files and (2) tofits, which converts the .dat file(s) into FITS ASCII tables. This package is intended for use on UNIX systems, and it includes a Makefile to build the executable modules.
Funding for this work was provided by the NASA Office of Space Science under contract NAS5-30960. The ADC is operated by and receives guidance from the Astrophysics Data Facility at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) provided support during the editing and premastering of the CD-ROM. The ADC acknowledges the assistance provided by Ms. Miranda Beall, technical editor, and the support of the NSSDC's Jay Freidlander and Richard Chu during the making of the CD-Recordable premasters. The data were given to the international astronomical data centers by many authors whose names are listed in the readme files. Use of these data in future publications should be acknowledged by citing the original reference as well as this CD-ROM as the delivery vehicle. (See introduction for the preferred description of this CD-ROM.)
Many people helped to prepare the data in the standard form and validate the results. The ADC is grateful to François Ochsenbein of the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg, France for his continuing contributions to the documentation standard and his catalog preparation software as well as for the documentation and checking of a number of catalogs. The ADC extends its thanks to those who have reported errors contained in catalogs on earlier volumes. Their reports helped the ADC update many of the catalogs that appear in this volume.
Cover and disc designs by James Gass and Rob Kilgore.
Front cover art of Johannes and Elisabetha Hevelius from "Machinae Coelestis,
Pars Prior" 1673, courtesy of Yerkes Observatory.
Star photograph on back cover courtesy of Nancy Roman.
Blackwell, J.H, Gass, J.E., Kuin, N.P.M, Roman, N.G., Schneider, G.L., Larkin, M.C., Cheung, C.Y, and Ochsenbein, F., Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 3, Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, NASA GSFC, 1996.
Kuin, N.P.M., Gass, J.E., Ochsenbein, F., Roman, N.G., Schneider, G.L., Leisawitz, D.T., and Lyu, C.-H., Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 2, Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, NASA GSFC, 1995.
Brotzman, L.E., and Gessner, S.E., Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 1, Astronomical Data Center/NSSDC/IAU, NASA GSFC, 1992.
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