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 5, Issue 3
July 1996
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
The ADC staff would like to welcome Dr. Cynthia Y. Cheung as the new NASA
Technical Representative for the ADC. Dr. Cheung replaces Dr. David Leisawitz
in that role. Our thanks to Dr. Leisawitz for his support and guidance over
the last two years.
A poster paper on the ADC was presented at the June meeting of the AAS in
Madison, Wisconsin by Nancy Roman. She reports that there was a great deal of
interest from those who were unfamiliar with our services and many compliments
from those who had used them. Nancy also participated in the the recent IAU
Colloquium on "International cooperation in the dissemination of astronomical
data" held in St. Petersburg, Russia. See her article on the highlights from
that meeting in this issue to learn more about it.
Many thanks to those who responded to last issue's questionnaire. We present
a summary of your responses in this issue.
Julie Anne Watko somehow found the time to develop a new version of her Quick
Basic catalog search tool FIND.BAS, while making a major dent in our backlog
of document standardization work. She reports on its new features in an
article below.
By the time of our next issue of this newsletter, Julie Anne will have begun
her graduate school career in physics at Johns Hopkins University. The staff
of the ADC would like to take this opportunity to thank her for all her hard
work, and to wish her the best of luck in her graduate schooling. We know
that her organization, drive, and intelligence will serve her well in the
demanding world of the physics graduate student.
- James E. Gass (Hughes STX), Editor
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Notes from the IAU Colloquium "International cooperation in the
dissemination of astronomical data"
Nancy G. Roman (Hughes STX)
The IAU Colloquium was held at the Pulkovo Observatory in Russia. Of the
approximately 100 participants in the colloquium, 34 represented 11 countries
in addition to the members of the FSU. The three days of talks covered the
various Astronomical Data Centers (China, France, Japan, Russia, and the USA),
electronic publishing, archives and data bases, and catalogs. There were many
opportunities for the participants to exchange information informally and to
get to know each other better.
Taking advantage of their presence in Pulkovo, the representatives of the five
Astronomical Data Centers held two meetings. A major portion of these meetings
covered details of standard documentation and a possible new ADC keyword list.
The Moscow center announced that they will henceforth automatically document
and archive major tables from the Russian Astronomical Zhurnal. These will be
on-line at the data centers in a new subdirectory /J/AZh/. They are hoping to
produce a CD-ROM of catalogs from the FSU. The representatives prepared a
resolution to be submitted to the IAU urging that the cost of archiving be
included in all major projects and in the planning by editors of astronomical
journals.
The representatives of Russia, Japan, and China agreed to watch the literature
in their areas for extensive tables which they think should be in the data
centers.
Extensive discussions on VizieR took place between CDS and the ADC. VizieR is
a data base system that allows the user to select the desired information from
specific records in one or more catalogs. For example, a user could ask for
the magnitudes and spectral types for a list of stars identified by their DM
number in several selected catalogs. At present, the system is still under
development.
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Results of the Questionnaire on Service Enhancements, Future CD-ROMS, etc.
James E. Gass (Hughes STX)
The response to the questionnaire in the last issue was rather light. Those
responding gave interesting, thoughtful answers. To summarize, the
respondents were generous with their praise for the ADC's ftp-accessible
archive and want to see more of the same. They expressed a strong desire for
a way to look into catalogs to search for records of interest.
The responses to the questions concerning CD-ROMs differed for users with and
without easy access to CD-ROM drives. There was considerable support for the
CD-ROMs proposed, but not at the expense of work on complete or improved
documentation for the catalogs in the archives. While some respondents
preferred networked services over CD-ROMs, the transatlantic users preferred
the CD-ROMS.
There were split responses on interest in future editions of the "Astronomical
Catalog Desk Reference". Some users still like paper, some prefer network
access to the same information, while still others would like a CD-ROM with
on-disc search capabilities. In general, those answering the questionnaire
liked the suggestion of easy access to the source publication abstract, and to
the full paper even more so. (Note that the ADC would seek to leverage the
work of the ADS and others to provide such services, rather than duplicating
that work.) Interestingly, no respondents reported ever using ADC data sets as
educational tools.
If you'd like another chance to answer this questionnaire, you can access it
at http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_enews/apr96.enews.html#survey. Please
address your responses to adc@adc.astro.umd.edu.
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Announcing the Release of FIND.BAS, Version 2
Julie Anne Watko (Hughes STX)
Announcing the completion of the new and improved version 2 of FIND.BAS!
&42;&42;&42;Applause!&42;&42;*42;
Improved how, you ask? That's simple. The entire user interface has been
reworked. Instructions and explanations are provided where people will
actually read them: on the screen while the program is running. Step-by-step
instructions guide the user through all necessary steps, while allowing
greater flexibility in the order of parameter entry. There's even a handy
option to exit without searching, allowing you the freedom to search or not to
search.
Were you tired out by the older version of FIND? All that typing just to
change a few parameters. Well, the relief you have waited for is finally
here. All search parameters remain the same until You, the User, make a
change.
Think that default tables are just too much hassle? Not anymore. The default
tables have been moved to the top of the code, so finding them is a snap!
Better still, the default filenames are displayed in front of the user's very
eyes!
Ever wish you could search for a range of numeric values? Your lucky day has
finally arrived. FIND.BAS version 2 makes range searching possible, while
still providing the string searching capabilities you've enjoyed in version 1.
But, that's not all! FIND also allows a feature which will display the text
of a ReadMe or other document without exiting the program!
How much does it cost, you inquire? Why it's absolutely FREE!
Where can I find this amazing new program? It's at
ftp://adc.astro.umd.edu/pub/adc/software/dos/find
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Newly Acquired and Updated Catalogs/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_archives_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)
1100A Results of obs with the 6-inch transit circle (Hammond+ 1927-1982)
1202 The FK5 Extension of the FK4 System (Lattanzi+ 1993)
1230 Southern Hemisphere Catalogue of Bordeaux (Rousseau+ 1996)
1231 Uccle AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
1232 Toulouse AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
II. Photometric Data
2205 GCVS, Vol. V.: Extragalactic Variable Stars (Artyukhina+ 1996)
2206 Stellar Polarization Bibliography (Belous, 1996)
III. Spectroscopic Data
3137 Spectroscopically Identified Hot Subdwarf Stars (Kilkenny+ 1988)
3151 UBV K Stars South Galactic Pole (Kuijken+ 1989)
3192 Radial Velocities measured at PPO by Fehrenbach (Fehrenbach+ 1996)
VI. Miscellaneous
6084 UVILLSS Catalogue (Coluzzi 1996)
VII. Non-Stellar and Extended Objects
7168 Double Galaxies in SGP region (Zou+, 1989)
VIII. Radio Sources
8035 Radio Sources observed with Culgoora Circular Array (Slee 1995)
8039 Composite CO Survey of the Milky Way (Dame+ 1987)
Astronomy and Astrophysics:
ID# Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)
J/A+A/291/121 Study of star V9 in 47 Tuc (Storm+ 1994)
J/A+A/298/115 ROSAT study of Praesepe (Randish+, 1995)
J/A+A/298/375 Jet-disk symbiosis II (Falcke+ 1995)
J/A+A/298/461 Main sequence of NGC 6171 (Ferraro+, 1995)
J/A+A/307/869 Nature of the peculiar supergiant HD 101584 (Bakker+, 1996)
J/A+A/308/481 Metallic line doubling phenomenon in RR Lyrae (Chadid+, 1996)
J/A+A/308/573 Ammonia on YSOs IRAS sources (Molinari+ 1996)
J/A+A/308/733 NTT VI photometry in Terzan 5 (Ortolani+ 1996)
J/A+A/309/446 The spiral structure of M51 (Petit+, 1996)
J/A+A/309/521 55 UMa spect. orbit (Horn+, 1996)
J/A+A/309/581 CO observations of clouds in IC 1396 region (Weikard +, 1996)
J/A+A/309/655 Solar chromospheric activity (He I 10830A) (Shcherbakov+, 1996)
J/A+A/309/749 Fundamental plane of early type galaxies (Prugniel 1996)
J/A+A/309/787 DX Eri variability (Stefl+, 1996)
J/A+A/310/8 The ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey I. (Katgert+, 1996)
J/A+A/310/31 The ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey. II. (Mazure+ 1996)
J/A+A/310/143 Variability of classical T Tauri stars (Fernandez+, 1996)
J/A+A/310/164 Line profile variations in eta Ori (De Mey+, 1996)
J/A+A/310/173 TY Pyx IUE FES observations (Neff+, 1996)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series:
J/A+AS/99/591 LMC galactic foreground stars UBV photometry (Gochermann+ 1993)
J/A+AS/110/19 Kinematical observations of pairs of galaxies (Davoust+ 1995)
J/A+AS/111/229 CCD meas. of visual binaries (Abad+, 1995)
J/A+AS/111/237 OH detections from circumstellar shells (Lewis+, 1995)
J/A+AS/111/275 BVRI CCD photometry of NGC 5460 (Barrado+, 1995)
J/A+AS/111/311 Radio continuum study of the MC (Filipovic+, 1995)
J/A+AS/112/291 VRI photometry of wide double stars (Sinachopoulos+ 1995)
J/A+AS/113/539 A survey of carbon stars in the SMC (Morgan+, 1995)
J/A+AS/115/235 The Hamburg/ESO survey for bright QSOs. II. (Reimers+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/283 A catalogue of high velocity molecular outflows (Wu+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/285 Catalogue of massive young stellar objects (Chan+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/295 Astrometry of outer Jovian satellites (Hernius+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/297 The Central Field of Omega Centauri (Lynga+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/315 Light curves of the B-type system V539 Arae (Clausen+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/325 UBV photometry in the cluster NGC 7510 (Barbon+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/339 Stellar models VI. (Charbonnel+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/345 Radio sources in fields near G160.9+2.6 (HB9) (Leahy+, 1996)
J/A+AS/115/351 Stark broadening. XIII. C V and P V (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/1 UBV photometry of MWC560 (Tomov+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/15 Observation of 57 spirals (Kamphuis+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/21 CrA & Lupus star counts (Andreazza+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/43 Emission-line galaxies nearby voids. (Popescu+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/75 Region of the open cluster TR 14 (Vazquez+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/95 Magellanic Clouds PNe line intensities (Leisy+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/157 SEST obs. of extragalactic radiosources (Nilsson+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/193 CO survey of spirals in Coma supercluster (Casoli+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/203 The redshift catalogue for galaxy clusters (Stein+, 1996)
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