A D C E l e c t r o n i c N e w s
Published by the
Astronomical Data Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A.
Volume 4, Issue 2
April 1995
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
This issue doesn't contain an article on the progress of work on the next ADC
CD-ROM volume, but we'd like to assure you that we're moving ahead on that
effort. Our current projections are that we will go to production on the ASCII
and FITS versions of "Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 2" sometime in the
Fall of this year.
The ADC first began publishing this electronic newsletter three years ago this
month. We'd like to take a moment to assess its utility from the readers point
of view. This issue contains a short questionnaire on that topic. If you will
kindly take a few moments to respond to those questions, it will help us fine
tune this service.
- James E. Gass (Hughes STX), Editor
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MINI QUESTIONNAIRE ON ADC ELECTRONIC NEWS
Nancy G. Roman (Hughes STX)
As you probably remember from our last Newsletter, we are collecting feedback
on our services. Our goal is to keep our services in tune with your needs.
The response thus far has been light, so we are changing our approach.
Instead of a single questionnaire to cover all of our activities, we decided to
request your reaction to one part at a time. This time, we shall appreciate
knowing whether you find the ADC Newsletter useful and, if so, which portions
are important.
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Is the Electronic Newsletter a service we should continue?
Yes: No: No opinion:
The publication frequency (four times a year) is-
Too frequent: About right: No opinion:
I appreciate the following sections-
News about the ADC's activities:
Listings of new catalogs available from the ADC:
The content is- about right: too voluminous:
Errors reported in archived catalogs:
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Please mail your replies to roman@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov. Your responses to these
questions will be greatly appreciated.
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CONVERTING TO FITS FILES
Nancy G. Roman (Hughes STX)
Most datasets are archived by the ADC in ASCII, since these files are in the
most versatile form. However, for some uses, such as IRAF, it is easier or
necessary to have the files in FITS. For catalogs and journal files which
include a ReadMe or Intro file written in the new standard documentation style,
the CDS has written a program called "tofits" to convert ASCII files to FITS
for UNIX machines.
To obtain this program:
ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr
login as anonymous
cd /pub/cats
copy all of the files
in your home directory, type: zcat csdclient.tar.Z | tar xvf -
Then,
"make" compiles the required source in the current directory
"make install" moves the various pieces to the standard directories
/usr/local/bin for the executables and /usr/man/manl for the manual
pages.
Note: At present most of our files do not have the new standard documentation,
although we are slowly converting the older documents for the frequently
requested catalogs. Those that are in the new form can be recognized by the
fact that the format table contains the following columns:
Bytes Format Units Label Explanation
The label column is necessary for producing FITS files. If necessary, the format
table from an older document can be reformatted into this form and used without
including the remainder of the document.
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ERRATA FOR THE ADC CD-ROM, VOLUME I
Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)
In the previous issues of the ADC E-News, we have presented errata lists for
the ADC CD-ROM, Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume I. Only one additional
error has been found since the last issue.
A complete list of errors has been compiled in a text file for retrieval over
the network by anonymous FTP from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov, file
"pub/ADC/adc_cdrom/adc_cdrom.errata".
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IRAS Catalog of Point Sources, Version 2.0 (PHOTOM/IRASPSC)
Submitted by Shiro Nishimura, National Astron. Obs. Japan
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As far as I searched through the IPAC Newsletter, there were two articles
titled "Information Exchange", which contained erratum information on the
IRAS PSC.
1) Vol.3,No.1,p.3; by S.G.Kleinmann : K and I magnitudes in TMSS
2) 3, 2, 5; S.Nishimura : HD number
(K.Sadakane) : Missing BS stars
Users are advised to take notice that corrections for these errors were not
yet incorporated in the association file on the CD-ROM. Besides there are
many diversities from the standard format of source identifications, espe-
cially of Verons' QSO/AGN Catalog and OSU Radio Sources. There are also
many "DITTO"s in OSU source identifications, which may be troublesome in
case of direct access (even in on case(IRAS 06053-0622), DITTO precedes to
the actual identification(PKS 0605-06)).
Some errors were recently found in the psc.doc file:
In Table X.B.1, the last three entries should read:
139 MHCON Possible number of HCON --- I2
141 FCOR Flux correction factor (times 1000) --- 4I4
(1 value per band)
157 SPARE 3 Spare blanks --- 3A1
Table X.B.4 was truncated at the end of the table, and should be added with
following data.
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32 IRAS Small Type Blank
Scale Structure
Field1 Hex coded bands
Field2 Blank
Field3 Blank
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39 OSU Radio Type Blank
+ Field1 Frequency
Field2 Flux(deci Jy)
Field3 0
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40 Michigan Type Class **
Spectral
Field1 Mag(decimag)
Field2 HD number (low byte)
Field3 HD number (high byte)
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41 Serendipitous Type Blank
Survey
Field1 Hexcoded SSC bands
Field2 First SSC flux(m Jy)
Field3 Second SSC flux
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** Source name and type fields were combined to hold spectral type and class.
+ Catalog numbers 33-38 reserved for internal use.
Table XII.A.3 should be corrected as follows, though this table is no longer
significant now that Table X.B.1 was already revised.
1) The format for MHCON should read I2 for 12.
2) The start byte for SPARE should read 157 for 149.
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OTHER REPORTED ERRATA
Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)
In previous issues of the ADC E-News, we have presented errata lists for the
ADC CD-ROM, Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume I. We also receive errata
reports on other catalogs. The correction will be applied to the catalog when
time permits.
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A1122 Bonner Durchmusterung
Submitted by Wayne H. Warren Jr.
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Nancy;
I found a magnitude of 6.5 on the following star and just corrected it,
so you should check your data set.
BD+87 202 9.5222016. +8742.8
Incredible to find that after all this time.
Wayne.
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NEWLY ACQUIRED CATALOGS
Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)
The following catalogs are currently available for request from the ADC
interactively through NODIS, WWW and NDADS/ARMS. See Volume 1, Issue 1,
of the ADC Electronic News for details on how to access NODIS and NDADS/ARMS.
The ADC online services via the WWW can be accessed at URL
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/adc_online_access.html.
In the following, each entry gives the NDADS EID (ADC number) of the catalog,
status, title and reference, comments (if any), and a description of the files
associated with the catalog. FLAT, FITS, and DOCUMENT file types are listed
separately. Status codes are defined as:
A - Has been checked for consistency by the ADC
B - Is distributed as received
C - May have errors, inconsistent format, or is incomplete
I. ASTROMETRIC AND POSITIONAL DATA
A1201 A XZ Catalog of Zodiacal Stars (Dunham, D.W. and Warren, W.H. Jr.
1995 January, Unpublished)
3 files, 7.71 Mbytes
A1205 A Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue, Vol. 7 (CMC7) (Copenhagen U. Obs.,
Royal Greenwich Obs., and Real Inst. y Obs. de la Armada 1993)
Comment(s): Observations of positions of stars and planets made
from January 1991
6 files, 3.59 Mbytes
A1209 A Catalogue de 2700 etoiles doubles (Couteau, P. 1993, Augstin
FRESNEL URA 1361, 2eme Edition)
4 files, 1.12 Mbytes
A1211 B Catalogue of the Components of Double and Multiple Stars (CCDM)
first edition (Dommanget, J. and Nys, O. 1994, Comm. Obs. R.
Belgique, Ser. A, N. 115)
3 files, 9.48 Mbytes
A1213 B Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue, Vol. 8 (CMC8) (Copenhagen U. Obs.,
Royal Greenwich Obs., and Real Inst. y Obs. de la Armada 1994)
Comment(s): Observations of positions of stars and planets made
from August 1992 to December 1993
6 files, 3.03 Mbytes
A1216 B Positions, Proper Motions, and Magnitudes in the Area of the Open
Cluster Tr10 (Stock, J. 1984, Rev. Mex. Astron. Astronfiz. 9, 127)
Comment(s): keypunched at CDS
2 files, 64.9 Kbytes
II. PHOTOMETRIC DATA
A2195 B The Computer-readable Namelists of Variable Stars Nos. 67-71
(Khopolov, P.N. et al. 1985, IAU Inform. Bull. Var. Stars, 2681,
1; Khopolov, P.N. et al. 1987, IAU Inform. Bull. Var. Stars, 3058,
1; Khopolov, P.N. et al. 1989, IAU Inform. Bull. Var. Stars, 3323,
1; Kazarovets, E.V. and Samus, N.N. 1990, IAU Inform. Bull. Var.
Stars, 3530, 1 Khopolov, P.N., Samus, N.N., and Goranskij, V.P.
1993, IAU Inform. Bull. Var. Stars, 3840, 1)
4 files, 908 Kbytes
A2196 B Interstellar Extinction in the Vicinity of the North America and
Pelican Nebulae (Straizys, V. et al. 1993, Baltic Astron. 2, 171)
18 files, 297 Kbytes
A2197 B Interstellar Extinction in the Direction of the Open Cluster IC
348 and the Per OB2 Association (Cernis K. 1993, Baltic Astron. 2,
214)
7 files, 165 Kbytes
A2199 A Radio Continuum Emission From Stars: A Catalogue Update
(Wendker, H.J. 1995, A&AS, 109, 177)
Comment(s): supersedes catalog 2147
4 files, 3.08 Mbytes
III. SPECTROSCOPIC DATA
A3177 B Survey Observations of Emission-line Stars in the Orion Region,
Parts I-IV (Wiramihardja, S.D. et al. 1989, Publ. Astron. Soc.
Japan 41, 155 (Part I); Kogure, T. et al. 1989, Publ. Astron. Soc.
Japan 41, 1195 (Part II); Wiramihardja, S.D. et al. 1991, Publ.
Astron. Soc. Japan 43, 27 (Part III); Wiramihardja, S.D. et al.
1993, Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 45, 643 (Part IV))
Comment(s): Part I. The Kiso Area A-0904; Part II. The Kiso Area
A-0903; Part III. The Kiso Area A-0975 and A-0976; Part IV. The
Kiso Area A-1047 and A-1048
2 files, 131 Kbytes
A3179 A An Alas of Southern MK Standards from 5800 to 10,200 Angstroms
(Danks, A.C., and Dennefeld, M. 1994, PASP, 106, 3820)
138 files, 1.14 Mbytes
A3180 B New H-alpha Emission Stars in Milky Way (Stephenson C.B., and
Sanduleak N. 1977, ApJS, 33, 459)
2 files, 55.3 Kbytes
A3181 A An Atlas of Low-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra of Normal Stars
(Torres-Dodgen, A.V., and Weaver, W.B. 1993, PASP, 105, 693)
64 files, 526 Kbytes
V. COMBINED AND DERIVED DATA
A5084 A Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker, A.
et al. 1992, European Southern Obs. -- ISBN 3-923524-41-2)
17 files, 1.37 Mbytes
VI. MISCELLANEOUS
A6061 A High Resolution Absorption Cross Sections in the Transmission Window
Region of the Schumann-Runge Bands and Herzberg Continuum of O2
(Yoshino, K. et al. 1992, Planetary Space Science, Vol. 40, No. 2/3,
pp. 185-192)
12 files, 2.25 Mbytes
A6075 A Merged Log of IUE Observations (IUE NASA/ESA/SERC Observatories
January 1978 - December 1992)
Comment(s) supersedes catalog 6027B
2 files, 11.6 Mbytes
A6076 A A Simulation Atlas of Tidal Features in Galaxies (Howard, S. et al.
1993, ApJ, 417, 502)
Comment(s): in a (UNIX) TAR container called "survey.tar". The
survey files have been compressed (*.z extension) using the GZIP
compress utility. The size of the TAR container is about 32
Mbytes.
2 files, 32 Mbytes
VII. NON-STELLAR AND EXTENDED OBJECTS
A7155 A Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (de Vaucouleurs, G. et
al. 1991, Springer-Verlag)
Comment(s): revised 1994 version, supersedes catalog 7137B
3 files, 7.99 Mbytes
A7185 A IRAS 1.2Jy Redshift Survey (Strauss, M.A. et al. 1990, ApJ, 361,
49; Strauss, M.A. et al. 1992, ApJS, 83, 29; Fisher, K.B. et al.
1995, ApJS, in press)
Comment(s): supersedes catalog 2174
4 files, 1.29 Mbytes
VIII. RADIO SOURCES
A8031 A A Revised Machine-readable Source List for the Rees 38-MHz Survey
(Hales, S.E.G. et al. 1995, MNRAS, submitted; Rees, N. 1990 MNRAS,
244, 233)
2 files, 335 Kbytes
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THE ADC ONLINE INFORMATION SYSTEM AND WORLD WIDE WEB ACCESS:
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