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 6, Issue 1
January 1997


CONTENTS

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                               INTRODUCTION

Welcome to our new subscribers, including those who signed up at the American
Astronomical Society meeting in Toronto, Ontario this month.  Thanks to all who
stopped by our booth this time.  Due to network problems at the meeting, many
of you didn't get to try our on-line services at the exhibit booth.  We
encourage you to stop by our home page at http://adc.astro.umd.edu/ and explore
our services for yourself.  We're interested in your suggestions on how to
improve our services to better meet your needs.

Speaking of services, you may want to try out our new hypertext index access 
to the ADC data collection.  Two indices, one based on author names, and one
based  on ADC subject keywords, are available.  See 
   
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_archive_access.html  
for links to these services. (See our "What's New" page at
   
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/whats_new.html 
for more information on the latest from the ADC.)

Most of you have received the announcement of the release of "Selected
Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 3".  Both the ASCII and FITS CD-ROMs are now
available.  More information on this new CD-ROM catalog collection is provided
in this issue.

The 1990's have seen the rise of a number of Internet services providing access
to astronomical literature and associated data.  Efforts are underway to better
link these services together.  The result will be easier access to related
electronically published papers and data tables.  The AAS is leading a
collaborative effort named Urania to accomplish this goal.  Dr. Peter Boyce 
describes this effort in an article in this issue.

- James E. Gass (Hughes STX), Editor


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                             New ADC Head Announced
                          (Reprinted from "NSSDC News")
                            Joseph H. King (NASA GSFC)

The Space Science Data Operations Office is pleased to announce that Dr.
Cynthia Cheung of the Astrophysics Data Facility has assumed the role of head
of the Astronomical Data Center from Dr. Nancy Roman (Hughes STX), who in turn
assumes the role of chief ADC acquisition scientist. Cynthia has also assumed
the role of ATR (Assistant Technical Representative) from Dr. David Leisawitz
in guiding the ADC services provided by SSDOO's on-site contractor (Hughes
STX). Cynthia's Internet address is cynthia.cheung@gsfc.nasa.gov.


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 Urania - the Universal Research Archive of Networked Information in Astronomy
                  Peter B. Boyce (American Astronomical Society) 

What is Urania?

Named for the muse of astronomy, the Urania resource is composed of electronic
astronomical scholarly journals, bibliographic information, electronic
archives of original data, electronic astronomical catalogs, electronic copies
of the historical scholarly literature for the last twenty years and a special
reference system archive organized by object in the sky.  Linked together
effectively by a mutual, standardized reference system, the separate resources
which make up Urania comprise a functioning digital library of astronomical
information, providing a power and utility which, until now, was only dreamed
of.

With the launching of Urania at the AAS meeting in Toronto,  the dream of a
digital library for astronomy and astrophysics on the researcher's desktop is
now a reality.  Within a year, over 90 percent of the world's scholarly
research literature in astronomy will be available on line and interlinked as
part of Urania.  An on-line presence of this magnitude has not been achieved
before.  With such a powerful array of information available globally, to
small institutions as well as large ones, the opportunity to participate in
forefront research will be opened to many more scientists. At the same time,
the ease of access and the effective, interlinked, electronic delivery of
information made possible by the Urania collaboration will be a major advance
for all researchers, even those at large institutions.

The new electronic journal articles as well as the historical literature are
all interlinked, both through the references as well as through the citations
to each article. If the full-featured electronic article is available in any
of the journals, the reader can link directly to the article. If not, the
abstract link via the NASA/ADS bibliographic database will lead to the page
images and to data tables, catalogs and other supplementary information.

The ADF provides the ability to search many catalogs of astronomical objects
at once, returning the objects of interest and eventually providing links
directly to the the other available on-line resources.

Users also may enter the system by looking up an object of interest in one of
the specialized databases, SIMBAD or NED, finding the basic data and all
references containing data on that object as well as images and other advanced
information.  As with the journal articles, links will bring you to the
literature where you can search for similar articles, follow references and
citations both forward and backward, and print out at your own printer the
page images of those articles you wish to keep.

The key to the ability to interlink so many distributed resources is the use
of a standard name for the journal articles and other items of digital
information.  For the last decade, the astronomical data centers have
pioneered the use of a standard "bibcode" to identify references.  All the
journals participating in Urania have agreed to adopt the same naming
convention.  The bibcode for journal articles can be computed automatically
and inserted into reference lists without human intervention.  Combined with
the use of name resolvers which direct the link request to the appropriate
distributed resource, the bibcodes provide the necessary integrated
functionality to make the Urania system work effectively, even though the
component parts are independently assembled and maintained.

What is Available via Urania?                              

At present, Urania is composed of the following components:

 Peer Reviewed Journals:
  The Astrophysical Journal (18,500 pages)
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplements (4,000 pages)
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2,500 pages)
  Astronomical Journal (6,000 pages - March  1997)
  Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplements (3,500 pages - expected shortly)
  Astronomy and Astrophysics (13,5000 pages - coming in 1997)
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1,500 pages -
  coming in 1997)

 Bibliographic Resources:
  NASA/Astrophysics Data System (searchable authors, titles, abstracts - links
   to articles and data)

 Data Centers:
  Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS)
  NASA/Astronomical Data Center  (ADC)
  NASA Extragalactic Data Center (NED)

 Object-indexed Data and Bibliographic Search Systems:
  NASA Extragalactic Database
  SIMBAD

 Historical Journal Archive:
  NASA/Astrophysics Data System (page images of all major journals since
   1980)

We expect more organizations to join the Urania resource and adopt the
necessary standards and protocols to allow full interlinked access to their
data and information.

Acknowledgments:     

Development of the Urania concept was supported at the AAS in part by a grant
from NSF and as part of a cooperative Agreement with the U.S. National
Institute of Standards and Technology.  The ADS, NED and ADC are supported by
the NASA. The CDS is supported by CNES (France).

For more information see:   http://www.aas.org/Urania

     or contact

Dr. Peter B. Boyce, Senior Associate
American Astronomical Society
Pboyce@aas.org
202 328-2010      
Fax: 202-234-2560

                                                  
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        Update on the "Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 3" CD-ROM
                      Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)

As announced on January 7, the CD-ROM "Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 
3" is now available from the ADC. At the time of the announcement, only the 
ASCII version was available for distribution, the FITS version has arrived 
and can now be ordered (see ordering information below).

During the 189th meeting of the AAS, held January 12-16 in Toronto, the  ADC
distributed or took orders for over 100 discs.  The ASCII version of Volume 3
was by far the most popular, but we also distributed a number of Volume 1 and 
2 discs. The NSSDC Request Coordination Office has received requests for over 
335 Volume 3 discs to date, this number includes the 79 Volume 3 discs that 
were distributed during the AAS meeting.   

If you have not yet ordered your copy of either Volumes 1 or 2 and want to 
know more about their contents, you can access this information through the 
WWW at 
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_other_media.html.

We have received our first error report on Volume 3 (please see my
article below for more information about the error).

Below is the Volume 3 CD-ROM contents list.  Please note that all of
the catalogs were extensively reviewed prior to CD-ROM processing.
In many cases, the ReadMe files were revisited or standardized and
catalogs were reformatted and or corrected. Many of the catalogs are
not included in my article "Newly Acquired and Updated Catalogs/Journal
Tables" and are also available through the WWW at 

http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_archive_access.html.


List of Catalogs on the Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 3 CD-ROM 

 Astrometric and Positional Data:

 ID    Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)

 1005  Proper Motions of 20843 Cape Zone Stars 1900 (Spencer Jones+ 1936)
 1098A NLTT Published Edition (Luyten 1979-80) [1]
 1113A General Cat. of 33342 Stars, 1950.0 (GC; Boss 1937, ADC 1992) [1]
 1147  Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue, La Palma (Copenhagen U. Obs.+ 1989)
 1170A Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue, La Palma (Copenhagen U. Obs.+ 1991)
 1189  Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, La Palma (Copenhagen U. Obs.+ 1992)
 1205  Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue, Vol. 7 (CMC7) (Copenhagen U. Obs.+ 1993)
 1209A Catalogue de 2700 Double Stars (Couteau, 1993)
 1211  Components of Double and Multiple Stars (CCDM) (Dommanget+ 1994)
 1213  Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue, Vol. 8 (CMC8) (Copenhagen U. Obs.+ 1994)
 1233  Orbital Elements of Minor Planets 1997 (Batrakov+ 1996)
 1237  Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1996.0 (Worley+ 1996) [1]
 1238  Yale Trigonometric Parallaxes, Fourth Edition (van Altena+ 1995) [1]

 Photometric Data:

 ID    Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)

 2084  13-Color Photometry of 1380 Bright Stars (Johnson, Mitchell 1975) [1]
 2116  Photoelectric Photometric Cat., Johnson UBVRI System (Lanz 1986) [1]
 2122B UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue (Mermilliod 1987)
 2143A Guide Star Photometric Catalog, Updated Version 1 (Lasker+ 1988,1996) [1]
 2158A uvby, beta Photoelectric Photometric Cat. (Hauck, Mermilliod 1990) [1]
 2172B Gen. Cat. of Variable Stars V1.1, Vol. IV (Durlevich+ 1996) [1] [2]
 2193  UBV Photoelectric Catalogue: Data 1986-1992 (Mermilliod 1994) [2]
 2209  Catalog of Infrared Observations (CIO; Gezari+ 1996) [1]

 Spectroscopic Data:
 
 ID    Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)
 
 3017B Early-Type Emission-Line Stars (Wackerling 1970) [1]
 3031B Michigan 2-D MK Types for the HD Stars 1 (Houk, Cowley 1975) [1]
 3039A Ultraviolet Bright Star Spectrophotometric Catalogue (Jamar+ 1976) [1]
 3051B Michigan 2-D MK Types for the HD Stars 2 (Houk 1978) [1]
 3067A Be Stars (Jaschek, Egret 1982) [1]
 3080  Michigan 2-D MK Types for the HD Stars 3 (Houk 1982) [1]
 3115  IUE Atlas of O-Type Stellar Spectra, 1200-1900 A (Walborn+ 1985) [1]
 3129  Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs 3 (McCook, Sion 1987) [1]
 3133  Michigan 2-D MK Types for the HD Stars 4 (Houk, Smith-Moore 1988) [1]
 3135  Henry Draper Catalogue and Extension (Cannon+ 1918-1924; ADC 1989) [1]
 3156  Cool Galactic Carbon Stars, 2nd Edition (Stephenson 1989) [1]
 3165  A Catalogue of [Fe/H] Determinations (Cayrel de Strobel+ 1991) [1] [2]
 3174  High Resolution Atlas of Symbiotic Stars (Van Winckel+ 1993, 1994)
 3188  IUE Atlas of B-Type Stellar Spectra (Walborn+ 1995)
 3189  General Catalogue of MK Classifications (Buscombe 1995)

 Cross Identification Data:

 ID    Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)

 4012  SAO-HD-GC-DM Cross Index (ADC 1983) [1]
 4019  CD-CPD Cross Index (Rappaport, Warren 1987)
 4021  Infrared Source Cross Index (Schmitz, Mead, Gezari 1987)

 Combined and Derived Data:

 ID    Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)

 5039  Fourth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars (Worley+ 1983) [1]
 5050  Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit, Warren 1991) [1]
 5053  Brightest Stars (Ochsenbein, Halbwachs 1987)
 5059  Cataclysmic Bin, Low-Mass X-Ray Bin, Related Obj. (Ritter 1990) [2]
 5061  Ptolemy's Star Catalogue (Almagest; Manitus 1913; Jaschek 1987)
 5070A Nearby Stars 3, Preliminary (Gliese, Jahreiss 1991) [1]
 5082  Cataclysmic Binaries (Ritter+ 1993)
 5085  Stellar Mass Catalogue (Belikov 1995)

 Miscellaneous Data:

 ID    Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)

 6016  Line Spectra of the Elements (Reader, Corliss 1980-1981)
 6025  POSS Plate Data (Natl. Geo. Soc., Palomar Obs. 1960) [1]
 6032  Bidelman-Parsons Spectroscopic/Bibliographic Cat. (Parsons+ 1980)
 6040  Revised Yale Isochrones and Luminosity Functions (Green+ 1986)
 6042  Identification of a Constellation from Position (Roman 1987)
 6063  Orbital, Precessional, and Insolation Quan for Earth (Laskar+ 1993) *
 6066  Moon and Planets, Precession Formulae and Mean Elements (Simon+ 1994) *
 6071  Revised Version of the ILLSS Catalogue (Coluzzi 1993)
 6079  Lunar Solution ELP 2000-82B (Chapront-Touze+ 1988)

 Non-Stellar and Extended Objects Data:
 
 ID    Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)

 7007A Dark Nebulae (Lynds 1962 updated) [1]
 7020  H II Regions (Sharpless 1959) [1]
 7026D Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC; Nilson 1973) [1]
 7034B ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas (Lauberts 1982) [1]
 7044B Star Clusters/Associations. II. Globular Clusters (Ruprecht+ 1981) [1]
 7054  Extragalactic Radio Source Identifications (Veron-Cetty+ 1983) [1]
 7062A Morphological Catalog of Galaxies (Vorontsov-Velyaminov+ 1962-68) [1]
 7092A Open Cluster Data, 5th Edition (Lynga 1987) [1]
 7100  Morphological Catalog of Galaxies, Vol. 5 (Kogoshvili 1987) [1]
 7113  Galaxies, Quasars Observed in the IRAS Survey, Ver. 2 (IPAC 1989) [1]
 7145  Nearby Galaxies Catalogue (NBG) (Tully 1988)
 7155  Third Reference Cat. of Bright Galaxies (RC3; de Vaucouleurs+ 1991) [2]
 7173  Catalogue of Seyfert Galaxies (Lipovetsky+ 1988)
 7188  Quasars and Active Nuclei, 7th Edition (Veron-Cetty+ 1996) [1] [2]
 7193  CfA Redshift Catalogue (Huchra+ 1995) [2]

 Radio Data:

 ID    Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)

 8004  Fourth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources (4C; Pilkington+ 1965-67) [1]
 8028  Bell Laboratories H I Survey (Stark+ 1992)**
 8039  Composite CO Survey of the Milky Way (Dame 1987)**


 [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.
   *  Catalogs 6063 and 6066 are in fact software packages. These are
      provided as ASCII files on both versions of this volume (Volume 3, 
      No. 1 and No. 2). No FITS version is provided.
  **  Data for catalogs 8028 and 8039 are in FITS image format - not FITS
      table format.


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the NSSDC distributes at URL 
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                      Errata for the ADC CD-ROM, Volume 3
                        Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)


The Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, Selected Astronomical Catalogs, 
Volume 3, has been publicly available since January 7, 1997.  An error
has been reported on this volume, the error has been verified by our
staff and our results are reported below (see Editor's Note).

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The IUE Atlas of O-type Stellar Spectra (catalogs/3115/spectra.dat)
Submitted by Jason Aufdenberg, Arizona State University
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Hi -


I have found an error on the ADC CD-ROM "Selected Astronomical
Catalogs, Vol. 3 - ASCII Version".  

An error in the "International Ultraviolet Explorer Atlas of 
O-type Spectra from 1200 to 1900 A", 

file: cdrom/CATALOGS/3115/SPECTRA.DAT

Byte-by-byte Description of file: spectra.dat                                   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Bytes Format  Units   Label     Explanations                                 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1- 10  A10    ---     ID       *HD/HDE or Sanduleak (Sk) number of star      
  13- 16  I4     0.1nm   lambda   *Wavelength of first flux/quality pair        
  18- 26  F9.5   ---     flux_1   *Normalized flux at wavelength=lambda         
  29- 32  F4.2   ---     qual_1   *Data quality flag associated with flux_1     
  34- 42  F9.5   ---     flux_2    Normalized flux at wavelength=lambda+0.025 nm
  45- 48  F4.2   ---     qual_2    Data quality flag associated with flux_2     
  50- 58  F9.5   ---     flux_3    Normalized flux at wavelength=lambda+0.050 nm
  61- 64  F4.2   ---     qual_3    Data quality flag associated with flux_3     
  66- 74  F9.5   ---     flux_4    Normalized flux at wavelength lambda+0.075 nm
  77- 80  F4.2   ---     qual_4    Data quality flag associated with flux_4     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The first 10 bytes are incorrect, the HDE/HDE or Sanduleak (Sk) number
is wrong.  For example, the first block of data, star 5005A, is
labeled 108.  As a result all the labels are off by one star in the
list (file: STARS.DAT).  To obtain the data for a particular star "X"
in the list, I must select the data labeled "X-1" in the list.  I
noticed this when I tried to retrieve data for star HD163758 and
compared it was the spectrum published in "O Stars and Wolf-Rayet
Stars: Monograph Series on Nonthermal Phenomena in Stellar Atmospheres
NASA SP497, Conti and Underhill" page 89, figure 2-1.  This spectrum
looked nothing like the one in the figure.  However, if I retrieve the
data labeled HD 162978, one block before the data labeled HD163758,
the spectrum looks exactly like the figure of HD163758.

I don't know if the data for star HD108 are missing from SPECTRA.DAT
(it doesn't appear in the list STARS.DAT), but the labels in file,
SPECTRA.DAT, are incorrect.

cheers,

Jason Aufdenberg
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Arizona State University

Editor's Note: The entry for star HD108 is missing from the file stars.dat on
Volume 3. However, a check of the spectral data contained in spectra.dat for
four stars: HD108, HD5005A, HD162978, and HD163758 against the plots in the
hardcopy version of Walborn et al. showed them all to agree.  That is, we did
not find evidence for the misidentification (label sequence shift) reported. 
A further check of the spectrum of HD163758 against the figure on page 89 of
Conti and Underhill showed them to be the same.  Thus all three renditions of
that spectrum are identical. Detailed features of the plots, such as details in
the Fe V, O IV, SiIV and C IV lines were used to match the spectra.


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               Newly Archived Catalogs and Journal Tables  
                    Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)

The following catalogs and journal tables are currently available from the
ADC through the WWW at 
http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_archive_access.html.
We would like to thank the CDS, AAS and individual authors for making
many of the listed catalogs and journal tables available for our archival.



                     NEW CATALOGS AND JOURNAL TABLES

I.    Astrometric and Positional Data

ID#            Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) 

1237    The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1996.0    (Worley+, 1996)
            Comment(s): previous version on ADC CD-ROM Vol. 1
                        supersedes catalog 1107A
1238    Yale Trigonometric Parallaxes, Fourth Edition  (van Altena+ 1995)
            Comment(s): previous version on ADC CD-ROM Vol. 1
                        supersedes catalog 1174


II.   Photometric Data

2207    Palomar-Green catalog UV-excess stellar objects  (Green+ 1986)
2209    Catalog of Infrared Observations, 3.5 Edition  (Gezari+ 1996)
            Comment(s): previous version on ADC CD-ROM Vol. 1
                        supersedes catalog 2184


III.  Spectroscopic Data

3169    Photometric Atlas of Procyon for 314-747 nm   (Griffin+ 1979)


V.    Combined and Derived Data

5090    Catalogue of X-Ray Binaries (van Paradijs 1995)


VII.   Non-Stellar and Extended Objects

7193    The CfA Redshift Catalogue, Version June 1995  (Huchra+ 1995)
            Comment(s): Previous version on ADC CD-ROM Vol. 2
                        supersedes catalog 7164

VIII.  Radio Data

8038    The Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85GHz (PMN) Surveys   (Griffith+ 1993-1996)
            Comment(s): supersedes catalog 8027 and journal table 
                        J/ApJS/97/347
8040    GB6 catalog of radio sources        (Gregory+ 1996)
8042    Texas Survey of radio sources at 365MHz   (Douglas+ 1996)


IX.    High-Energy Data

9011    ROSAT Source Catalog        (Voges+ 1994)
9012    The WGACAT version of ROSAT sources   (White+ 1995)


Astronomy and Astrophysics:

ID#            Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year) 

J/A+A/313/129  Positions and magnitudes of M30 blue stars (Burgarella+ 1996)
J/A+A/313/377  Near-IR photometry of 86 galaxies. IV. (de Jong 1996)
J/A+A/313/841  MACHO LMC No.1 microlensing event (Dominik+, 1996)
J/A+A/313/924  Relative fluxes in 11 type I PN (Costa+, 1996)
J/A+A/313/949  Solar chromospheric structures. II. (Bocchialini+, 1996)
J/A+A/313/1008 Slender flux tubes variational principle . I. (Achterberg 1996)
J/A+A/314/43   NGC 5548 Profile variability (Kollatschny+ 1996)
J/A+A/314/191  Atmospheric parameters in metal-poor stars. I (Gratton+, 1996)
J/A+A/314/312  Galilean satellites mutual events in 1997 (Arlot 1996)
J/A+A/314/448  UBV photometry of a blue straggler in NGC 2354 (Lapasset+, 1996)
J/A+A/314/491  HD 59435 radial velocity & Geneva photometry (Wade+ 1996)
J/A+A/314/541  Long period Cepheids  (Antonello+, 1996)
J/A+A/314/585  NaI/KI scattering in circumstellar envelopes (Guilain+ 1996)
J/A+A/314/615  Maps of the 36 GHz methanol emission (Liechti+, 1996)
J/A+A/314/846  Radial velocities of Gliese 692.1 (Duquennoy+ 1996)
J/A+A/314/871  V Hydrae (Kahane+ 1996)
J/A+A/314/896  IR fluxes and photometry of oxygen-rich stars (Le Sidaner+ 1996)


Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series:

J/A+AS/61/473  BV photometry in the LMC bar (Bernazzani+ 1985)
J/A+AS/102/451 Emission-line stars and PNe in the SMC (Meyssonnier+ 1993)
J/A+AS/104/529 IRAS galaxies with F60>#0.6Jy (Takata+ 1994)
J/A+AS/112/99  Calar Alto Obs. sky brightness (Leinert+, 1995)
J/A+AS/117/93  Spectra of 21 late-type stars   (Serote Roos+, 1996)
J/A+AS/117/127 Solar MgI lines Stark broadening (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)
J/A+AS/118/277 Proper motions in NGC 1647   (Geffer+ 1996)
J/A+AS/118/557 Near-IR photometry of 86 galaxies. II. (de Jong 1996)
J/A+AS/119/1   HD 45677 photometry (de Winter+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/37  EZ CMa UBV & VBLUW photometry (Duijsens+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/99  [Ni I] & [Ni II] transition probabilities (Quinet+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/111 Molecular abundances in dense interstellar clouds (Lee+ 1996)
J/A+AS/119/153 La Silla Observatory sky brightness 1978-1988 (Mattila+ 1996)
J/A+AS/119/191 CCD BVI photometry in NGC 5927 (Samus+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/221 UBVRI photometry of stars in Berkeley 86 (Deeg+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/265 High probability quasar candidates (Iovino+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/271 Be stars uvby{beta} photometry (Fabregat+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/281 UBV(RI)c photometry of active stars. (Cutispoto, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/307 Position in M15 (Le Campion+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/329 VR photometry in the Shapley Supercluster (Slezak+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/369 Stark broadening. XIV: Be III and B III (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)


Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series:

J/ApJS/82/117  UBV and H-beta in Sco-Cen association   (Slawson+, 1992)
J/ApJS/91/625  ROSAT survey of the Pleaides    (Stauffer+ 1994)
J/ApJS/93/187  UBV Photometry in NGC 7419  (Beauchamp+ 1994)
J/ApJS/97/141  Einstein sample multiparametric analysis. I. (Eskridge+ 1995)
J/ApJS/98/659  Galactic PNe statistical distance scale (Zhang 1995)
J/ApJS/99/637  Equivalent widths for 54 red giants (Norris+ 1995)
J/ApJS/101/287 H II Regions in Seyfert galaxies. I. (Tsvetanov+ 1995)
J/ApJS/103/235 Arcturus IR spectral atlas (Wallace+ 1996)
J/ApJS/103/433 Horizontal-branch and A-type star catalog. II (Beers+ 1996)
J/ApJS/104/71  UBV photometry of OB associations in LMC superbubbles (Oey 1996)
J/ApJS/104/101 Far-UV stellar photometry (Schmidt & Carruthers 1996)
J/ApJS/107/201 The Stromlo-APM Redshift Survey IV  (Loveday+ 1996)


Astronomical Journal:

J/AJ/106/1839  Metal-rich halo A stars (Rodgers+ 1993)
J/AJ/108/2299  ICCD speckle obs. of binary stars. XI.  (Hartkopf+ 1994)
J/AJ/109/663   BV photometry in Terzan 7 (Buonanno+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/874   Kinematics of MKW and AWM Poor Clusters    (Beers+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/1086  VI Photometry in M54 and Sgr Dwarf Galaxy (Sarajedini + 1995)
J/AJ/109/1131  JHK Photometry in Metal Rich Globulars. (Kuchinski+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/1154  JHK Photometry of Liller 1       (Frogel+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/1269  Streams and Disks in Binary Stars (Etzel+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/1308  H-alpha Emission Variations (Olson+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/1379  Praesepe & M 67 spectral standards (Allen+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/1608  Near-IR Surface Photometry in Virgo Spirals (Rauscher 1995)
J/AJ/109/1797  H-Alpha Measurements for Cool Giants (Eaton 1995)
J/AJ/109/2318  Extragalactic IRAS sources (Condon+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/2480  VI photometry of late-type stars in M31. I. (Brewer+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/275   IR spectra of standard stars (Cohen+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/463   Kinematics of the Shapley supercluster (Quintana+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/638   NGC 1866 BVI photometry (Walker 1995)
J/AJ/110/652   VI photometry in NGC 6352 (Fullton+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/880   Radio reference frame (Johnston+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/1141  Variables in the Sagittarius dSph (Mateo+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/1186  SX Phe stars in NGC 5053 (Nemec+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/1350  Beta Lyrae light curve changes (Van Hamme+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/1420  Nutation of the Earth (Williams 1995)
J/AJ/110/1649  VI photometry near the M33 nucleus (Mighell+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/1699  F-P observations of globular clusters (Gebhardt+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/1774  K giants in Baade's window (Terndrup+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/1959  VLA survey of Abell clusters. V. (Ledlow+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/1993  IRAS Bright Galaxy Survey. II (Sanders+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/2206  BV photometry of variables in Ru 106 (Kaluzny+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/2288  Kinematics of local RR Lyrae stars. II. (Layden 1995)
J/AJ/110/2319  Abundances in RR Lyr variables (Clementini+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/2400  BVI photometry of V728 Her (Nelson+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/2715  UBV photometry in NGC 6822, M31 and M33 (Massey+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/2739  H-alpha emitting regions in M33 (Calzetti+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/2788  JHK photometry for Galactic bulge stars (Tiede+ 1995)
J/AJ/110/2844  JHK photometry of globular clusters. III. (Kuchinski+ 1995)
J/AJ/111/370   Orbits of 37 close visual systems (Hartkopf+ 1996)
J/AJ/111/393   Speckle observations of binary stars. XII (Al-Shukri+ 1996)
J/AJ/111/439   Chromospheric emission in late-type stars. (Henry+ 1996)
J/AJ/111/645   Morphology of Quasars (Fabian+ 1996)
J/AJ/111/696   Rotation curves of Seyfert galaxies with companions (Keel 1996)
J/AJ/111/902   Short-period Cepheids (Henden 1996)
J/AJ/111/936   ICCD Speckle obs. of binary stars. XIII (Hartkopf+ 1996)
J/AJ/111/1128  UV-UBV photometry in NGC 595 (Malumuth+ 1996)
J/AJ/111/1193  Proper motion in M34 (Jones+ 1996)
J/AJ/111/1596  BV photometry in Fornax globulars (Smith+ 1996)


Astrophysical Journal:

J/ApJ/324/172  M 31 UBVR photometry (Hodge+, 1988)
J/ApJ/348/98   LMC AGB stars IRAS fluxes (Reid+ 1990)
J/ApJ/420/612  Proper motions & radial velocities in M22 (Peterson+ 1994)
J/ApJ/439/983  Radio & optical observation of UX Arietis (Elias+ 1995)
J/ApJ/441/307  Proper motions and brightness of Cas A (Anderson+ 1995)
J/ApJ/446/115  Gamma ray burst localizations (Vrba+ 1995)
J/ApJ/446/300  Classification of NIR spectra of A Stars (Weaver+ 1995)
J/ApJ/446/622  UV and optical imagery of LH 52 and LH 53 (Hill+ 1995)
J/ApJ/448/179  HST photometry in R136 (Hunter+ 1995)
J/ApJ/452/238  HST photometry of I Zw 18 massive stars (Hunter+ 1995)
J/ApJ/453/616  JHKL photometry of 12 micron galaxy sample (Spinoglio+ 1995)
J/ApJ/456/174  Intermediate-Mass Population in NGC 604 (Hunter+ 1996)
J/ApJ/457/102  Ly-Alpha Forest spectra simulation analysis. I. (Dobrzycki+ 1996)
J/ApJ/459/110  Line strengths and gradients in S0 galaxies (Fisher+ 1996)
J/ApJ/459/278  Photometry of HD 3831 (Matthews+ 1996)
J/ApJ/462/1    PNe in the Coma I region    (Jacoby+ 1996)
J/ApJ/462/241  Ca abundance for Omega Cen red giants (Norris+ 1996)


Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society:

J/MNRAS/235/1313 Metric wave Extragalactic Variability   (Slee+ 1988)
J/MNRAS/236/207  Galaxy redshift catalogue  (Metcalfe+, 1989)
J/MNRAS/246/433  CCD photometry & APM parameters for galaxies (Maddox+ 1990)
J/MNRAS/264/273  CCD photometry of NGC 1261   (Ferraro+ 1993)
J/MNRAS/269/849  Pulsar glitches (Alpar+ 1994)
J/MNRAS/277/125  Visual search for galaxies in the Galactic Plane (Hau+ 1995)

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: 

J/PASP/108/313  Empirical stellar flux scales (Hall 1996)
J/PASP/108/332  Photometric analysis of contact binaries (Lapasset+ 1996)
J/PASP/108/338  UBV obs. of the contact binary BF Pavonis (Gonzalez+ 1996)


                UPDATED CATALOGS AND JOURNAL TABLES 


I.    Astrometric and Positional data 

1080  Catalog of 5268 Standard Stars, Normal System N30 (Morgan 1952)
          Comment(s): ReadMe revisited and modified remarks.dat 

1096  Astrographic Catalogue, +01 to +31 Degrees (Fresneau 1983)
          Comment(s): ReadMe revisited
 
II.   Photometric data

2040  Hydrogen-Line Absorption in Early-Type Stars (Bappu+ 1962)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

2139B General Catalog of Variable Stars, 4th Ed. (GCVS4)  (Kholopov+ 1988)
          Comment(s): catalog updated 

2143A HST Guide Star Photometric Catalog, Version 2 (Lasker+ 1988,1996)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized      
 
III.  Spectroscopic Data

3083  IUE Low-Dispersion Spectra Ref Atlas I, Normal Stars (Heck+ 1984)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized

3097A Bib Radial Velocities for Stars in Open Clusters (Mermilliod 1984)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

3105  Radial Velocities of Southern Stars with CORAVEL (Andersen+ 1985)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized

3113  Deep Objective-Prism Survey for LMC Members (Sanduleak 1969)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

3114  Spectra of Late-Type Standards, 2.0-2.5 Microns (Kleinmann+ 1986)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

3127  Radial Velocities of Bright Southern Stars (Andersen+ 1983-1985)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

3134  Radial Velocities of Bright Population II F Stars (Andersen+ 1985)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

3136  Optical Spectrophotometry Wolf-Rayet C and O Stars (Torres+ 1987)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

3174  High Resolution Atlas of Symbiotic Stars (Van Winckel+ 1993,1994)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized

IV.   Cross Identifications

4018  WDS-DM-HD-ADS Cross Index (Roman 1987)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized  


V.    Combined and Derived Data

5019  Masses and Ages of Stars in 68 Open Clusters (Piskunov 1980)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized and data reformatted  

5082  Cataclysmic binaries (Ritter+ 1993)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized
 

VI.   Miscellaneous
 
6016  Line Spectra of the Elements (Reader, Corliss 1980-1981)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized, data reformatted 
                      and errors corrected

6054  Horizontal Branch Stellar Model Calculations (Dorman 1992)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

 
VII.  Nonstellar and Extended Objects

7028  Southern Groups and Clusters of Galaxies (Duus, Newell 1977)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized  

7047  Seyfert Galaxies (Weedman 1977-1978)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized

7055  X-Ray Source Pos More Accurate than 4U or 2A, 2nd ed. (Dolan 1983)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized 

7057  List of Globules (Wesselius 1979)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized

7086A Groups of Galaxies. I. Nearby Groups (Huchra, Geller 1982)
          Comment(s): documentation standardized

7089B Compact groups of compact galaxies  (Shakhbazian+ 1973-1979)
          Comment(s): catalog updated


Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series:

J/A+AS/102/451  Emission-line stars and PNe in the SMC (Meyssonnier+ 1993)
          Comment(s): ReadMe and notes revisited

J/A+AS/105/243  Stark broadening of Be I spectral lines (Dimitrijevic 1994)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/A+AS/105/245  Stark broadening of spectral lines of multic (Dimitrijevic 1994)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/A+AS/107/349  Stark broadening X. (Dimitrijevic+, 1994)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/A+AS/109/551  Stark broadening. XII. OIV & OV (Dimitrijevic+, 1995)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/A+AS/115/351  Stark broadening. XIII. C V and P V   (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/A+AS/116/359  Xe II lines Stark broadening (Popovic+, 1996)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/A+AS/117/127  Solar MgI lines Stark broadening (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/A+AS/118/239  Yunnan Observatory photoelectric astrolabe catalogue (Hu+ 1996)
          Comment(s): error corrected in table1


Astronomical Journal:

J/AJ/106/352    ICCD speckle observations of binary stars. VIII. (Hartkopf 1993)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/AJ/106/591    Early-type stars in orthogonal halo fields. I. An (Rodgers 1993)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/AJ/106/637    ICCD speckle observations. IX (Mason+, 1993)
          Comment(s): added see also

J/AJ/108/1016   Kinematics of local RR lyrae stars. I. (Layden, 1994)
          Comment(s): ReadMe revisited

J/AJ/108/2299   ICCD speckle obs. of binary stars. XI.  (Hartkopf+ 1994)
          Comment(s): added see also


Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series:

J/ApJS/90/83    Binaries in NGC 3201 (Cote+, 1994)
          Comment(s): added table3

                                                  
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