Volume 8, Issue 2
April 1999
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INTRODUCTION
In response to feedback from you, the users of ADC's services, we have
developed a lengthy "to do" list for improvements to the ADC's table data
visualization tools. New ADC staffer Brian Thomas describes the latest
enhancements to these tools in his article in this issue.
As promised last time, this issue will bring you up to date on the recent
staff additions at the ADC. Regrettably, we also note one new departure.
Several ADC staffers will be presenting poster papers at the upcoming
meeting of the AAS in Chicago. This papers will describe the latest on the
R&D work of the ADC. Look for them in Session 44, "Computation and
Data Analysis", and Session 83, "Databases and Data Mining".
- James E. Gass (Raytheon ITSS), Editor
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ADC Data Visualization Suite Enhancements
Brian Thomas (Raytheon ITSS)
The ADC Web site includes a suite of data visualization tools, sometimes
referred to as VCI (Viewer - CatsEye - IMPReSS). These tools allow the user
to move from browsing ADC catalogs and journal tables to acquiring data on
specific objects in one continuous sequence. The ADC Viewer can select and
browse most holdings in the ADC, in which the user can cull, sort, and save
their desired tables. CatsEye plots columns from Viewer tables, allowing data
visualization. From CatsEye, selected catalog objects can be passed to
IMPReSS, which plots available observation "footprints" on the sky and links
directly to the archived data.
The VCI suite has undergone a number of improvements since the last
newsletter. with the bulk of the work resulting in improvements to the the
viewer.
Viewer changes include:
- Download of new formats. These include FITS and various
ASCII delimited tables (user may choose pipes, tabs, spaces,
or commas for delimiting characters).
- Upload of ASCII formatted tables to user workspace. This helps
the user to save work beyond the baseline time that the ADC
maintains user workspace data. It also allows the user to
upload new data which may be readily compared (via over-plotting)
to ADC holdings.
- Users may use regular expressions to cull.
- Users may use a circular region to cull coordinates. Because this
brings compatibility with the AstroBrowse standard this enables
greater interoperability with other data centers.
Other suite improvements include:
- Direct access to the user workspace from the top page.
- Improved instructions. Both a terse and descriptive set of
instructions have been made available.
- User may access CatsEye directly from the top page.
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Comings and Goings at the ADC
James E. Gass (Raytheon ITSS)
Nils Odegard and Tom Sodroski have joined the Astrophysics Data Facility to
support the ADC and the Facility's infrared and submillimeter data activities.
Nils comes to us from the NPOES project. Both he and Tom have previously
worked on the COBE project.
Brian Thomas has joined the ADC from the x-ray astronomy group here at NASA
Goddard. He has worked on various projects, including the Rossi X-ray Timing
Explorer mission.
Brian Holmes is the most recent addition to the ADC staff. Brian is an
experienced software developer, having worked for several companies that
contract with government agencies.
The new staff members will support the ADC in various areas, including
the Center's application of XML (the eXtensible Markup Language) technologies
to its astronomical catalogs and journal data tables.
Nancy Oliversen has recently said "goodby" to her colleagues at NASA Goddard.
Nancy had supported the ADC several years ago, and had recently renewed her
role with the ADC, after a number of years with the ultraviolet and optical
data group of the ADF. Nancy has worked in support of Goddard projects for
many years. She leaves Raytheon ITSS to join our friends on the staff of the
U.S. Naval Observatory.
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Newly Acquired and Updated Catalogs/Journal Tables
Gail L. Schneider (Raytheon ITSS)
The following catalogs and journal tables are currently available from the
ADC holdings. The ADC gratefully acknowledges the CDS, AAS, and individual
authors who have recently contributed to our holdings.
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.
NEW CATALOGS AND JOURNAL TABLES
ID# Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)
Photometric Data
2220 Polarization of Be stars (McDavid, 1986-1999)
Spectroscopic Data
3191 Radial Velocities of Nearby Stars (Tokovinin, 1992)
Combined and Derived Data
5102 SKY2000 - Master Star Catalog, Version 2 (Sande+ 1998)
Radio Sources
8054 Atlas of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen (Hartmann+, 1997)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
J/A+A/335/467 High galactic latitude RASS X-ray sources (Thomas+ 1998)
J/A+A/341/L79 Proper motions of faint ROSAT WTT stars (Terranegra+ 1999)
J/A+A/341/469 Geneva photometry of NGC 2451 and HR 2968 (Carrier+ 1999)
J/A+A/341/553 RY Tau in 1996 (Petrov+ 1999)
J/A+A/341/641 NTT SUSI Deep Field (Arnouts+, 1999)
J/A+A/341/709 Chemical spiral galaxies models (Lindner+ 1999)
J/A+A/341/818 s-Cepheid velocity curves (Kienzle+, 1999)
J/A+A/342/1 ESO Slice Project. VI. Groups of Galaxies. (Ramella+ 1999)
J/A+A/342/378 6 and 20cm flux densities of radio galaxies (Gurvits+ 1999)
J/A+A/342/671 Early-type spiral galaxies kinematics (Corsini+ 1999)
J/A+A/342/736 Pre-eclipse dip of Her X-1 (Stelzer+ 1999)
J/A+A/342/773 Hot carbon stars B-V colour excess (Bergeat+ 1999)
J/A+A/342/881 Uncertainties in r-abundance distribution (Goriely 1999)
J/A+A/343/86 Virgo cluster radio luminosity function. I. (Gavazzi+ 1999)
J/A+A/343/93 Local radio luminosity function of galaxies. II.(Gavazzi+ 1999)
J/A+A/343/446 VRI Cousins photometry of Am stars (Domingo+ 1999)
J/A+A/343/806 The trapezium system BD+00 1617 (Munari+ 1999)
J/A+A/343/841 Imaging of symbiotic stars (Corradi+ 1999)
J/A+A/343/894 RZ Tau UBVR photometry (Djurasevic+ 1999)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/134/53 uvby photometry of 4 CP stars (Adelman 1999)
J/A+AS/134/59 The central Fornax Cluster. I. Galaxy photometry (Hilker+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/75 Central Fornax Cluster. II. Galaxy spectroscopy (Hilker+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/87 Photographic observations of visual binaries (Jasinta+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/115 Medicina 6.7GH methanol masers survey (Slysh+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/241 Rotation in molecular clouds (Phillips 1999)
J/A+AS/134/287 EXMS catalog (Reynolds+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/301 NGC 2354 red giants (Claria+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/463 Themis Family (Florczak+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/483 The Hamburg Quasar Survey. III. (Hagen+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/489 Be stars in MC young clusters (Keller+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/523 Temperatures and [Fe/H] for evolved G and K stars (Taylor 1999)
J/A+AS/134/525 NGC 6611 compiled catalog (Belikov+ 1999)
J/A+AS/134/545 Double stars measurements 1995-1997 (Aristidi+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/29 New periods of variable stars in Cygnus (Hric+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/133 First DENIS I-band extragalactic catalog (Vauglin+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/159 IRON Project. XXXIII. (Mendoza+, 1999)
J/A+AS/135/231 Mining in the Hipparcos raw data (Falin+, 1999)
J/A+AS/135/273 408MHz obs. of GPS sources from JVAS survey (Marecki+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/319 ROSAT data of Nearby Stars (Huensch+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/347 IRON Project XXXV. Fe XXIV and Fe XXV (Nahar+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/359 HI and HeII fine structure components (Clegg+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/391 VI CCD photometry of NGC 6553 (Sagar+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/405 Grids of stellar models. VIII. (Charbonnel+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/437 AGNs with composite spectra. II. (Goncalves+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/493 V light curves of PN M2-54 (Handler 1999)
J/A+AS/135/499 Double star measurements (Salaman+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/503 Hipparcos southern B8-F2 stars radial velocities(Grenier+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/511 The Hamburg/SAO Survey for ELGs (Ugryumov+ 1999)
J/A+AS/135/555 Illuminated atmospheres limb-darkening coeff. 1.(Alencar+ 1999)
Astronomical Journal
J/AJ/77/405 Intense radio sources at 1400MHz (BDFL sample) (Bridle+, 1972)
J/AJ/115/1253 Deep X-Ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS). I. (Perlman+ 1998)
J/AJ/115/2397 Stars in the solar region (Eggen 1998)
J/AJ/115/2587 Einstein IPC database ultrasoft survey (Thompson+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/102 NGC 5548 BR photometry (Tyson+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/146 UGC 6456 HST photometry (Lynds+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/560 Cl J0023+0423 and Cl J1604+4304 spectroscopy (Postman+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/584 Cl J0023+0423 and Cl J1604+4304 morphology (Lubin+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/1094 MAPS-PP catalog of galaxies (Cabanela+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/1275 UBV photometry in 5 fields of the LMC (Dolphin+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/1529 cD clusters of galaxies. III. (Hill+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/1573 Redshift Survey Compact Groups (Barton+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/1757 M 30 UBV photometry (Guhathakurta+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/1775 BV photometry of M 53 (Rey+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/1816 JHKLMNOPQ photometry in Orion cluster (Hillenbrand+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/2081 Hubble Deep Field catalog of color-based redshift (Wang+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/2108 AWM 7 radial velocities (Koranyi+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/2341 Recent star formation in Sextans A (Van Dyk+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/2395 BV photometry in five SMC clusters (Mighell+, 1998)
J/AJ/116/2415 CCD UBVRI Photometry of M80 (Alcaino+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/2728 I photometry of early-type galaxies (Scodeggio+ 1998)
J/AJ/116/2738 Spectroscopy of early-type galaxies (Scodeggio+ 1998)
Astrophysical Journal
J/ApJ/317/102 Cancer cluster 1.4GHz continuum sources (Salpeter+, 1987)
J/ApJ/428/693 Rosette Nebula and Maddalena Cloud structures (Williams+ 1994)
J/ApJ/468/633 Photometry in the M31 OB association NGC 206 (Hunter+ 1998)
J/ApJ/498/195 Spectroscopic survey of CL 1358+62 (Fisher+ 1998)
J/ApJ/499/112 HST CFRS and LDSS redshift surveys. I. (Brinchmann+ 1998)
J/ApJ/500/714 Color-magnitude relation in CL 1358+62 (Van Dokkum+ 1998)
J/ApJ/501/153 VRB photometry of red supergiants (Massey 1998)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/13/65 Radio source flux densities at 750 & 1400MHz (Pauliny-Toth+ 1966)
J/ApJS/115/1 MX northern Abell cluster redshift survey (Slinglendy+ 1998)
J/ApJS/116/263 VI photometry of open clusters (Piatti+ 1998)
J/ApJS/119/277 -3.5<=DE<=8.5, 11.5<RA<13.5 redshift survey (Grogin+, 1998)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
J/MNRAS/301/1031 High res. spectra of VLM stars (Tinney+ 1998)
Astronomicheskij Zhurnal
J/AZh/74/42 RATAN-600 radio sources spectra (Bursov 1997)
J/AZh/74/63 Cluster analysis of pulsar parameters (Malov+, 1997)
J/AZh/74/812 102MHz radio source survey (Tyul'bashev 1997)
Pis'ma v Astronomicheskij Zhurnal
J/PAZh/20/693 Identification and coordinates in NGC 5272 (Evstigneeva+ 1994)
J/PAZh/21/509 Identification and coordinates in M5 (Evstigneeva,+ 1995)
J/PAZh/21/652 Optical variability in NGC 7469 (Lyuty+, 1995)
J/PAZh/22/269 Giant branch and variable stars in NGC 3201 (Samus+, 1996)
J/PAZh/22/764 Photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6139 (Samus+, 1996)
J/PAZh/22/847 Identification and coordinates in M4 (Shokin+, 1996)
J/PAZh/23/277 Optical variability of WW Vul (Zaitseva+, 1997)
J/PAZh/23/341 BVR observations of SS 433 (Irsmambetova 1997)
J/PAZh/23/409 Spectrophotometry of Mrk 509 (Chuvaev+, 1997)
J/PAZh/23/454 Identification and coordinates in M 53 (Evstigneeva+, 1997)
J/PAZh/23/626 UBVR photometry of binaries GG Ori and OS Ori (Zakirov 1997)
J/PAZh/24/868 The triple system ADS 9167 (Kiyaeva+, 1998)
J/PAZh/24/918 ADS 9731: a new sextuple system (Tokovinin+, 1998)
Publications of the Bull. Special Astrophys. Obs.
J/other/BSAO/38.152 Effective temperatures of CP stars (Glagolevskij 1994)
J/other/BSAO/40.5 RATAN-600 RC radio sources (Parijskij+ 1996)
Publications of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory
J/other/PBeiO/32.87 HIP and RSSJ95 position differences (Manrique+ 1998)
Australian J. Phys. Astrophys. Suppl.
J/other/AuJPA/14.77 408MHz galactic radios sources (Shaver+ 1970)
UPDATED CATALOGS AND JOURNAL TABLES
The catalogs are grouped in categories, as follows:
Standardized documentation added
ReadMe file revisited
The journal_tables are grouped according to journal title as follows:
Data reformatted or corrected
ReadMe file revisited
Standardized documentation added:
Photometric Data
2169 Geneva Photometric 4 (Rufener 1988)
ReadMe file revisited:
Non-Stellar and Extended Objects
7062A Morphological Catalog of Galaxies (Vorontsov-Velyaminov+ 1962-68)
Data reformatted or corrected:
Astronomy and Astrophysics
J/A+A/335/183 Pleiades low-mass stars rotational velocities (Queloz+ 1998)
J/A+A/342/773 Hot carbon stars B-V colour excess (Bergeat+ 1999)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/85/805 11 cm radio continuum survey. IV. (Fuerst+ 1990)
J/A+AS/109/375 Blue stragglers in open clusters (Ahumada+, 1995)
J/A+AS/128/131 UBV photometry of NGC 2323 (Claria+ 1998)
J/A+AS/133/403 Ionization balance for optically thin plasmas (Mazzotta+ 1998)
J/A+AS/134/523 Temperatures and [Fe/H] for evolved G and K stars (Taylor 1999)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/75/801 The Fourth MIT-Green Bank 5GHz Survey (Griffith+ 1991)
J/ApJS/116/1 Old Stellar Populations. VI. Absorption-Line (Trager+ 1998)
Astronomical Journal
J/AJ/105/1251 Pisces-Perseus supercluster. V. (Wenger+, 1993)
J/AJ/105/1271 Pisces-Perseus supercluster. VI (Giovanelli+, 1993)
J/AJ/110/1186 SX Phe stars in NGC 5053 (Nemec+ 1995)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Society
J/MNRAS/284/265 Rotational Velocities of 373 OB stars (Howarth+ 1997)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
J/PASP/104/1063 A BV Color-Magnitude Diagram for NGC 1851 (Walker+ 1992)
Acta Astronomica
J/other/AcA/48.35 All Sky Automated Survey variable stars (Pojmamski 1998)
ReadMe file revisited:
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/A+AS/104/379 Integrated photometry of open clusters (Battinelli+ 1994)
J/A+AS/106/303 Multifrequency observations of ROSAT sources (Neumann+ 1994)
Publications of the Bull. Special Astrophys. Obs
J/other/BSAO/40.128 RATAN-600 radio sources spectra (Bursov 1996)
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