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The ADC has expanded its resources in order to better serve our users, we have developed a new category called "external" to complement our catalogs and journal table directories. You can access the data set described here through the URL:
http://xweb.nrl.navy.mil/www_rsearch/RS_form.html/.

The following is an abbreviated "ReadMe" document that describes this external data set.
E/VII/3   COSMOS/UKST Catalog of the Southern Sky   (Yentis+ 1992)
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The COSMOS/UKST Catalog of the Southern Sky 
   Yentis D.J., Cruddace R.G., Gursky H., Stuart B.V., Wallin J.F., 
   Mac\-Gillivray H.T., Collins C.A. 
   <Digitised Optical Sky Surveys, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 67 (1992)>
   =1992doss.conf...67Y 
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ADC_Keywords: Clusters, galaxy; Plate data; Surveys; External catalog 

Location: http://xweb.nrl.navy.mil/www_rsearch/RS_form.html

Description:
   We have prepared an "object" catalog of the Southern sky south of 
   +2.5 degrees declination from COSMOS scans of the IIIaJ and Short Red 
   surveys taken with the U.K. Schmidt Telescope. The catalog consists of 
   nearly 500 million objects down to the limit of the plates. A version 
   of the catalog in compact form is available for distribution and a data 
   base management system has been developed which allows rapid access to 
   any part of the catalog. We also describe the creation of a catalog of 
   clusters of galaxies derived from the galaxies contained in the object 
   catalog. The cluster catalog contains some 70,000 candidate clusters in 
   the Southern hemisphere and forms the basis for major programs of 
   follow-up observation.

   The collaboration between the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE) and the 
   Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to further develop and utilize data from 
   COSMOS processing of the U.K. Schmidt Telescope (UKST) Southern sky survey
   has now completed its second year. As reported earlier by Gursky (1990), 
   this effort has led to the creation of a complete optical object catalog of
   the Southern sky. The catalog is being used at the Max Planck Institute for
   Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) to find optical counterparts to X-ray 
   sources detected by the ROSAT all-sky survey satellite (see Voges et al., 
   1991, these proceedings) and at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
   (IPAC) for the optical identification of IRAS Faint Source Survey objects 
   (see Wolstencroft et al., 1991 these proceedings). ROE and NRL are also 
   developing a computer-selected catalog of clusters of galaxies for the 
   entire Southern sky. In this paper we elaborate the details of the data 
   base management system (DBMS) developed for the object catalog and the 
   techniques being used to create the cluster catalog. 

References:
   Abell, G.O., Corwin Jr., H.G. & Olowin, R.P., 1989. 
    Astrophys.J.Supp., 70, 1.
   Beard, S.M, MacGillivray, H.T. & Thanisch, P.F., 1990. 
    Mon.Not.R.astr.Soc., 247, 311.
   Dodd, R.J. and MacGillivray, H.T., 1986. Astr. J., 92, 706. Gursky, H. 
    1990. Digitised Optical Sky Surveys Newsletter, 2, 28. 
   Heydon-Dumbleton, N.H., Collins, C.A. & MacGillivray, H.T., 1989. 
    Mon.Not.R.astr.Soc., 238, 379. 
   Lasker, B.M., Sturch, C.R., Lopez, C., Mallama, A.D., McLaughlin, S.F., 
    Russell, J.L., Wisniewski, W.Z., Gillespie, B.A., Jenkner, H.,
    Siciliano, E.D., Kenney, D., Baumert, J.H., Goldberg, A.M.,
    Henry, G.W., Kemper, E., and Siegel, M.J., 1988. Astrophys.J.Supp., 68, 1.
   Lonsdale, C.J., 1990. Digitised Optical Sky Surveys Newsletter, 2, 29. 
    MacGillivray, H.T. & Stobie, R.S., 1984. Vistas Astr. 27, 433. 
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(End)                     Gail L. Schneider      [ADC/SSDOO]        11-May-1998
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