Volume 6, Issue 3
July 1997
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INTRODUCTION
The ADC staff welcomes a student volunteer from the U.K. this month. Aron
Rachamim joins us for a four-week long stint. He is writing an educational
document on astronomical data for distribution on our new "ADC for Students
and Educators" page.
In the last issue we told you that we were re-designing the ADC Web site.
The new design replaced the old on July 3rd. See the article in this issue
for more details - and be sure to check out the new pages!
At the last Astrophysics Data Facility Science Steering Committee meeting,
Dr. Jaylee Mead, the person most responsible for the founding of the ADC,
gave a presentation on the early history of the Astronomical Data Center.
She has kindly turned that presentation into an article for this newsletter.
As was true for the last two years, the ADC is on track to release another
CD-ROM in the series "Selected Astronomical Catalogs" by the end of this year.
This will be Volume 4 of the series. See Gail Schneider's article in this
issue for more information, including the preliminary list of contents.
- James E. Gass (Hughes STX), Editor
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New ADC Web Site Design Goes Public
James E. Gass (Hughes STX)
Our subscribers who have experience in creating World Wide Web sites know
that properly maintaining them can be a big job. As the capabilities of the
Web expand, the expectations of its users change. Sometimes web pages need an
aesthetic update. At other times, the information behind the pages changes,
or the shortcomings of the current web site design are found to be hindering
its effective use. When these motivations for updates reach a certain point,
it's time to revamp the site. The ADC's web site has just undergone a major
redesign. While efforts were made to make it more visually appealing, the
main goal was to further simplify navigation for the first time user. Also,
new pages were added to better serve particular groups of users.
For newcomers to the site, there is a new visitor's page featuring a web site
tour. The new design also includes pages especially for amateur astronomers
and others for students and educators. Access to the ADC's public data is
consolidated on the new "Catalog & Journal Table Collections" page
(http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/adc_collections.html). The revised "Software
Tools for ADC Users" page presents the programs available from ADC in a table
organized by application and operating system. The new "Inside ADC" page
contains an "ADC Reference Shelf", "Behind the Scenes" information on the
workings of the ADC, information on what's "On the Drawing Board" for future
ADC products and services, and a hyperlinked chart of where ADC fits in the
NASA organizational structure.
As new services and products are developed, we'll be linking them in to this
new collection of web pages. Check our "What's New" page and future issues of
this newsletter for updates. Finally, don't be shy about using our on-line
feedback form (http://adc.astro.umd.edu/adc/questions_feedback.html#feedback)
to share your thoughts on our services and how to improve them. While you're
at it, tell us how you like the new design.
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The Early History of the ADC
Jaylee Mead (AAS)
Goddard Space Flight Center's Astronomical Data Center was built on
developments made by astronomers who were forward-looking in anticipating the
future needs of the field, particularly considering the requirements of space
astronomy. As early as 1959, when I joined NASA, the agency was working with
the Naval Research Laboratory to develop a computerized approach to the
calibration of the Minitrack System for use in tracking the earliest
satellites. This involved devising a method for computerized plate reductions
using star catalog coverage of the entire sky. At that time only 14 small
star catalogs were machine-readable. Astronomers at the US Naval Observatory
and Yale Observatory were cooperating in key-punching of positional data for
250,000 additional stars from the Yale Zone and AGK2 catalogs. At Goddard we
put this data on 9-track magnetic tape and wrote the software to provide
automated plate reductions. Sixteen 12-inch tapes were required to load in
all the stellar data!
This experience in the 1960's provided a logical basis for applications needed
by upcoming space missions, such as the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, the
Goddard Experiment Package (which failed to reach orbit), and IUE. Additional
astronomical catalogs were made machine-readable for use in these and later
missions, primarily for planning observations, preparation of finding charts,
telescope pointing requirements and later identification of field stars.
By the early 1970's astronomers in other countries were also foreseeing the
need for computerized stellar and galactic databases. The French government
was among the most farsighted when they announced in 1970 plans to establish
the Strasbourg Stellar Data Center. The Goddard ADC has had strong
cooperative ties with the French center since that time, when we exchanged
copies of all of our machine-readable catalogs, a practice which continues
today.
Many people contributed to the ADC in the early years. Among those who made
the most significant inputs through hands-on efforts, funding, advice or other
encouragement are William Cahill, Ray and Julie Duncombe, Dorrit Hoffleit,
Theresa Nagy, Wayne Warren, Carlos Jaschek, Nancy Roman, Anne Underhill, Al
Boggess, Gart Westerhout, and Jim Vette.
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ADC CD-ROM, Volume 4 Planned for December Release
Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)
The ADC has begun the preparation of a new CD-ROM, "Selected Astronomical
Catalogs - Volume 4". The new disc will contain a mix of catalogs which have
been updated since Volumes 1, 2 and 3 and popular catalogs not published on
the first three Volumes. We plan to only produce ASCII Table discs, software
will be provided to allow users to create FITS table versions if they need
them.
We are aiming to have Volume 4 ready for distribution by the end of this
year and will notify our subscribers by Email when the new disc is available.
Please do not submit requests for Volume 4 until you receive our announcement
of its release. Queries concerning the new CD-ROM may be sent to
adc@adc.astro.umd.edu.
Below is our preliminary list of contents, this list is still subject to
change.
Cat # Abbreviated Title
1061B AGK3 Catalogue (Dieckvoss, Heckmann 1975)
1079 Lowell Proper Motion Survey 8991 Stars Northern Hem (Giclas 1971)
1131A SAO Star Catalog J2000 (SAO Staff 1966; USNO, ADC 1990)
1141 Yale Zone Catalogues Integrated (Yale Univ 1939-1983; ADC 1989)
1143 Fourth Fundamental Cat and Suppl (FK4, FK4S; Fricke, Kopff 1963)
1149A Fifth Fundamental Catalogue, Basic Fund Stars (FK5; Fricke+ 1988)
1171 Astrographic Catalog Reference Stars (Corbin, Urban 1991)
1172 International Reference Stars (Corbin 1991)
1218 New Reference Frame defined by Extragalactic Radio Source (IAU WG, 1995)
2002B Two-Micron Sky Survey (TMS; Neugebauer, Leighton 1969)
2118 UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars, Celestial Equator (Landolt 1983)
2124A UBV Phot and MK Spectral Types in Open Clusters (Mermilliod 1986)
2125 IRAS Catalog of Point Sources, Version 2.0 (IPAC 1986)
2156A IRAS Faint Source Catalog, |b| > 10, Version 2.0 (Moshir+ 1989)
2168 Homogeneous Means in the UBV System (Mermilliod 1991)
TBD General Catalog of Variable Stars (Kholopov+ 1997)
2206 Stellar Polarization Bibliography (Belous, 1996)
2212 A Finding List of Faint UV-Bright Stars (Lanning+, 1995)
3063B Revised Cat Stellar Rotational Velocities (Uesugi, Fukuda 1982)
3083 IUE Low-Dispersion Spectra Ref Atlas I, Normal Stars (Heck+ 1984)
3088 Stellar Spectrophotometric Atlas 3130-10800 A (Gunn, Stryker 1983)
3116 Spectrophotometric Standards (Massey+ 1988)
3168 General Catalog of S Stars, second edition (Stephenson 1984)
3182 HDE Charts: positions, proper motions (Nesterov+ 1995)
3184 3rd Bibliog. Cat. of Stellar Radial Vel. (Barbier-Brossat+, 1994)
3189A General Catalogue of MK Classifications (Buscombe 1997)
3190A WEB Catalog Radial Velocities (Duflot+ 1995)
3198 Palomar/MSU nearby star spectroscopic survey (Hawley+ 1997)
4022 FK5 - SAO - HD - Common Name Cross Index (Smith 1996)
5036B A Supplement to the Bright Star Catalogue (Hoffleit+ 1983)
5064 Eighth Orbital Elements of Spectroscopic Binaries (Batten+ 1989)
5084 Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker+, 1992)
5090 Catalogue of X-Ray Binaries (van Paradijs 1995)
5094 Catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables (Downes+ 1997)
5095 SKY2000 - Master Star Catalog (Myers+ 1997)
6049 Catalogue of Constellation Boundary Data (Davenhall+ 1989)
6069 Atomic Spectral Line List (Hirata+ 1995)
6086 Bibliography of Atomic Line Identification Lists (Adelman 1996)
7001B Rev New Gen Cat of Nonstellar Objects (RNGC; Sulentic, Tifft 1973)
7004A Catalogue of Abell and Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1974)
7005A Star Clusters and Associations, Selected Data (Alter+ 1970)
7009 Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (Lynds 1965)
7021 Catalogue of Reflection Nebulae (van den Bergh 1966)
7051 A Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies (Sandage+ 1981)
7108B Asteroids II Machine-Readable Data Base (Lagerkvist 1988)
7110A A Catalogue of Rich Clusters of Galaxies (Abell, Corwin, Olowin 1989)
7118 NGC 2000.0 (Sky Publishing 1988, ed. Sinnott)
7172 First Byurakan Survey (FBS) (Markarian+ 1989)
7190 Zwicky Galaxy Catalog (Zwicky+ 1968)
7202 Globular Clusters in the Milky Way (Harris, 1996)
8038 The Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85GHz (PMN) Surveys (Griffith+ 1993-1996)
8040 GB6 catalog of radio sources (Gregory+ 1996)
J/MNRAS/278/1025 The APM Bright Galaxy Catalogue (Loveday 1996)
J/PASP/106/967 Standards: Thuan-Gunn; Johnson-Kron-Cousins (Joergensen 1994)
J/AJ/109/1498 Large Bright Quasar Survey VI (LBQS) (Hewett+, 1995)
J/AJ/110/1993 IRAS Bright Galaxy Survey. II (Sanders+ 1995)
J/ApJS/96/39 The Catalog of Southern Ringed Galaxies. (Buta 1995)
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Update on the ADC's Catalog & Journal Table Holdings
Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)
Currently, the ADC archives hold more than 2100 catalogs and tables. The
catalogs are grouped into nine categories of data and the journal tables have
been published in astronomical periodicals. Recently we have added several
additional astronomical periodicals to our collection of journal tables, such
as the South African Astronomical Observatory, Circulars.
As reported in our April issue, the holdings lists have been modified to
indicate which data sets have been superseded, and by what catalogs. Also,
we have recently added hyperlinks to catalogs contained in our Selected
Astronomical Catalogs CD-ROM collection. These links will take you directly
to our CD-ROM page containing a brief description of each CD-ROM and
additional links to contents listings and ordering information.
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New External Category
Gail L. Schneider (Hughes STX)
A new category called "external" has been added to our internet services. It
is divided into subdirectories just like the "catalogs" directory, including
astrometric, photometric, spectroscopic, etc. We have included some very
large catalogs, many of them ADC cannot archive because of resource
constraints. Each subdirectory has external catalog numbered directories
with distinctive ReadMe files, each containing brief descriptions and pointers
to the external on-line services.
This allows the external services to be included as results provided by the
CNIDR free-text search engine with the rest of the ADC catalogs. Now, one
query returns the catalog, journal table, superseded and external short
titles.
The URL is ftp://adc.astro.umd.edu/pub/adc/archives/external.
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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. In addition to our major journals, we now have publications
from other journals.
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.
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
I. Astrometric and Positional Data
ID# Abbreviated Title (First Author, Year)
1239 The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)
III. Spectroscopic Data
3196 Near-IR stellar spectra from 1.428 to 2.5 um (Lancon+ 1996)
3198 Palomar/MSU nearby star spectroscopic survey (Hawley+ 1997)
3199 Observed Periods of Ap and Bp stars (Catalano+ 1997)
V. Combined and Derived Data
5080 Low-Mass Stars' Membership in OC Alpha Persei (Prosser 1992)
5095 SKY2000 - Master Star Catalog (Myers+ 1997)
VII. Non-Stellar and Extended Objects
7190 Zwicky Galaxy Catalog (Zwicky+ 1968)
7202 Globular Clusters in the Milky Way (Harris, 1997)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
J/A+A/85/329 4.85GHz extragalactic sources (Pauliny-Toth+ 1980)
J/A+A/235/185 OT 1809+31 quiescent candidates UBVR photometry (Motch+ 1990)
J/A+A/296/643 Low Surface Brightness galaxies in Coma (Karachentsev+ 1995)
J/A+A/305/74 NGC 4565, 4656 & 5907 ROSAT observations (Vogler+ 1996)
J/A+A/315/578 Monoceros OB1 region CO survey (Oliver+ 1997)
J/A+A/318/111 ROSAT Galactic Plane Survey (Motch+ 1997)
J/A+A/319/18 X-ray sources <1 degree from Seyfert galaxies (Radecke 1997)
J/A+A/320/74 Radial velocities of Pleiades members (Mermilliod+ 1997)
J/A+A/320/79 Mass-luminosity relation of low-mass stars (Malkov+ 1997)
J/A+A/320/185 T Tauri UBVRIcJHKL photometry (Wichmann+ 1997)
J/A+A/320/652 Mass of (11) Parthenope (Viateau+ 1997)
J/A+A/320/405 NGC 5548 continuum light curve (Sergeev+ 1997)
J/A+A/320/631 Meteor streams detected among 502TV (Jopek+ 1997)
J/A+A/320/757 M 3 stars CCD photometry (Ferraro+ 1997)
J/A+A/321/L9 Barium stars in the HR diagram (Bergeat+ 1997)
J/A+A/321/29 Star cluster evolution (Olofsson 1997)
J/A+A/321/L33 Terrestrial impact cratering rate (Jetsu 1997)
J/A+A/321/123 Optical variability of QSOs (Cristiani+ 1997)
J/A+A/321/236 Reddening and fluxes of carbon stars (Knapik+ 1997)
J/A+A/321/293 SiO production in interstellar shocks (Schilke+ 1997)
J/A+A/321/363 NGC 4736 H II regions properties (Martin+ 1997)
J/A+A/321/531 Quantitative analysis of HD 93129A (Taresch+ 1997)
J/A+A/322/460 NGC 3680 photometry and radial velocities (Nordstrom+ 1997)
J/A+A/323/71 Line spectra of Liners (Contini 1997)
J/A+A/323/113 YY Her photometric history over 1890-1996 (Munari+ 1997)
J/A+A/323/139 K magnitude of Pleiades low-mass binaries (Bouvier+ 1997)
J/A+A/323/337 Abell 851 morphological segregation (Andreon+ 1997)
J/A+A/323/469 Optical spectra of post-AGB stars (Bakker+ 1997)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/65/349 Markarian galaxies & Zwicky clusters relations (Petrosian+ 1986)
J/A+AS/70/95 Warm IRAS sources. I. AGN candidates (de Grijp+ 1987)
J/A+AS/73/37 LMC faint stars BV photometry (Linde+ 1988)
J/A+AS/82/41 Spectral index for B3 radio sources (Kulkarni+ 1990)
J/A+AS/100/243 Proper motions in M 67 (Zhao+ 1993)
J/A+AS/110/81 Methanol masers towards IRAS sources (van der Walt+ 1995)
J/A+AS/110/107 Lunar occultations (Meyer+ 1995)
J/A+AS/122/51 B to G stars calibration in Geneva photometry (Kunzli+, 1997)
J/A+AS/122/201 ROSAT Galactic Plane Survey observations (Motch+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/235 ROSAT active galaxies identifications (Laurent-Muehleisen+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/249 uvby photometry of 4 CP stars (Adelman, 1997)
J/A+AS/122/271 mm-monitoring of radio sources IV. (Reuter+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/285 VCS Stark broadening tables for hydrogen (Lemke, 1997)
J/A+AS/122/399 K and evolutionary corrections (Poggianti, 1997)
J/A+AS/122/409 Photometric catalogue of Coma (Lobo+, 1997)
J/A+AS/122/415 Long period variable UBVRIc photometry (de Laverny+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/463 Carbon stars in Magellanic Clouds (Kunkel+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/471 Variables in Omega Cen Fields 5139D-F (Kaluzny+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/483 Terzan 6 NTT VI photometry (Barbuy+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/489 New infrared carbon stars in IRAS PSC (Guglielmo+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/507 Kinematics of SMC carbon stars (Hatzidimitriou+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/515 HL Aur light curves and minima (Zhang+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/521 Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. I. (Simien+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/529 Radio stars for linking celestial reference frames (Walker+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/533 Stark broadening of P IV spectral lines (Dimitrijevic+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/559 uvby-beta CCD photometry secondary standard (Clausen+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/1 uvbyBeta photometry of ZZ UMa (Clement+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/59 uvby photometry of BH Vir (Clement+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/63 NGC 6530 multiwavelength photometry (van den Ancker+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/93 Lambda Boo stars consolidated catalogue (Paunzen+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/115 Variables stars in Palomar-Groningen field 3 (Ng+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/119 The supercluster-void network. I. (Einasto+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/135 Spectral classifications of 180 IR stars (Ginestet+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/159 IRON Project. XXII. C and O radiative rates (Galavis+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/209 Radial velocity curve of Sigma Gem (Duemmler+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/219 The B3-VLA Quasar Sample (Vigotti+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/273 Illumination in binaries (Hameury+, 1997)
J/A+AS/123/305 Yields of intermediate mass stars (van den Hoek+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/329 New weak-line T Tauri stars in Lupus (Krautter+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/353 Mean magnetic field modulus of Ap stars (Mathys, 1997)
J/A+AS/123/445 uvby photometry of metallic & Hg-Mn stars (Adelman 1997)
J/A+AS/123/455 LH 47 UVBRI photometry (Will+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/473 Late-type star spectra (Montes+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/487 CCD measurements of double and multiple stars (Popovic+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/507 New variables in Sagittarius (Terzan+ 1997)
J/A+AS/123/575 IRON Project XXIII. Fe XXII excitation rate (Zhang+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/1 The Centaurus Cluster Catalogue (Jerjen+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/13 UBVRI photometry of the cluster Collinder 272 (Vazquez+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/33 BN Ori UBV photometry & equivalent width (Shevchenko+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/55 Photometry of irregular variables (Cieslinski+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/61 Stellar Rotation in SB0s (Bettoni+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/75 Multiple star catalogue (MSC) (Tokovinin 1997)
J/A+AS/124/85 OH emission from IRAS sources (Slysh+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/123 Atlas of the Crab pulsar pulse profiles (Massaro+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/143 Light curves of O and C-rich LPV's (Mennessier+ 1997)
J/A+AS/124/157 Hipparcos stars proper motions (Geffert+ 1997)
Astronomical Journal
J/AJ/83/1549 A study of field galaxies. I. (Kirshner+ 1978)
J/AJ/88/1285 A deep survey of galaxies (Kirshner+ 1983)
J/AJ/95/1629 [O III] emission in 2 field-galaxy surveys (Moody+ 1988)
J/AJ/96/1632 CCD BV photometry in M 55 (Schade+ 1988)
J/AJ/96/1884 BVRJHK photometry of M31 red supergiants (Humphreys+ 1988)
J/AJ/97/1360 BV photometry of Palomar 12 (Steton+ 1989)
J/AJ/98/2086 CCD photometry of NGC 2257 RR Lyrae (Walker 1989)
J/AJ/99/784 IR photometry of LMC long-period variables (Hughes+ 1990)
J/AJ/99/1831 M 68 BVRI photometry (Alcaino+ 1990)
J/AJ/109/960 Young star clusters in The Antennae (Whitmore+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/1352 Stellar occultation candidates (McDonald+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/1903 Membership to cluster IC 4756 (Missana+ 1995)
J/AJ/109/2503 Synthesis model in HII regions. II. (Mayya 1995)
J/AJ/110/1032 APM elliptical galaxies radial velocities (Muriel+ 1995)
J/AJ/111/1205 Proper-Motion Membership of Open Cluster NGC 1
J/AJ/112/36 Velocities in Abell 3266 (Quintana+ 1996)
J/AJ/112/1335 Hubble Deep Field observations (Williams+ 1996)
J/AJ/112/2004 CCD photometry of SMC cluster Kron 3 (Alcaino+ 1996)
J/AJ/112/2319 Asteroid masses (Hilton+ 1996)
J/AJ/112/2786 1985-1995 lunar occultations at TIRGO (Richichi+ 1996)
J/AJ/112/2862 The MSX Infrared Astrometric Catalog (Egan 1996)
J/AJ/113/950 Kinematic Profiles of S0 Galaxies (Fisher 1997)
Astrophysical Journal
J/ApJ/336/780 gr photometry of NGC 5053 blue stragglers (Nemec+ 1989)
J/ApJ/424/599 Abundances in barred spiral galaxies (Martin+ 1994)
J/ApJ/448/683 Hyades RASS observations (Stern+ 1995)
J/ApJ/449/527 Galactic anticenter region large-scale structures (Lu+ 1995)
J/ApJ/449/592 NGC 5128 PN. III. (Hui+ 1995)
J/ApJ/452/210 UBV photometry in LH 47/48 (Oey+ 1995)
J/ApJ/459/606 Distance of planetary nebulae (Schneider+ 1996)
J/ApJ/459/686 Energy Deposition in Interstellar Dust Grains (Dwek+ 1996)
J/ApJ/466/191 Low-Density Warm Ionized Medium (Heiles+ 1996)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/69/99 NGC 6334 centers of star formation JHK photometry (Straw+ 1989)
J/ApJS/73/661 H II regions in M 101 (Hodge+ 1990)
J/ApJS/88/423 NGC 5128 PN. II. (Hui+ 1993)
J/ApJS/91/659 Ultracompact HII regions radio images (Kurtz+ 1994)
J/ApJS/93/549 Arecibo 1612 MHz survey supplement (Lewis 1994)
J/ApJS/94/221 New multiplet table for FeI (Nave+, 1994)
J/ApJS/95/345 Second Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. I. (Taylor+ 1994)
J/ApJS/95/387 Universidad Complutense de Madrid list 1 (Zamorano+ 1994)
J/ApJS/95/419 Molecular clouds in Cygnus. I. (Dobashi+ 1994)
J/ApJS/95/457 IRAS images of nearby dark clouds (Wood+ 1994)
J/ApJS/97/1 HST Quasar Absorption Line Key Project. X. (Lockman+ 1995)
J/ApJS/98/1 First Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. I. (Polatidis+ 1995)
J/ApJS/98/33 First Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. II. (Thakkar+ 1995)
J/ApJS/98/595 OB associations in M31 (Hill+ 1995)
J/ApJS/99/297 First Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. III (Xu+ 1995)
J/ApJS/100/1 Second Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. II. (Henstock+ 1995)
J/ApJS/102/29 Extragalactic globular clusters (Huchra+ 1996)
J/ApJS/104/199 Minislice at the North Galactic Pole. II. (Willmer+ 1996)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
J/MNRAS/211/637 Abell 85 CCD observations (Murphy 1984)
J/MNRAS/238/709 NPG stars VIJHK photometry (Stobie+ 1989)
J/MNRAS/254/655 Interferometer phase calibration sources. I (Patnaik+ 1992)
J/MNRAS/268/305 Variability of optically selected quasars (Hook+ 1994)
J/MNRAS/279/595 Blue compact dwarf galaxies in Virgo (Drinkwater+ 1996)
J/MNRAS/284/265 Rotational Velocities of 373 OB stars (Howarth+ 1997)
J/MNRAS/286/500 Classification of Late Type Stars (Malyuto V. 1997)
South African Astronomical Observatory, Circulars
J/other/SAAOC/14.11 UBVRI photometry of GSPC stars (Kilkenny+ 1990)
J/other/SAAOC/15.30 DDO photometry of E-region stars (Cousins 1993)
J/other/SAAOC/15.40 Southern reddened luminous stars. I. (Kilkenny+ 1993)
J/other/SAAOC/15.53 Southern reddened luminous stars. II. (Kilkenny 1993)
J/other/SAAOC/15.65 Southern reddened luminous stars. III. (Kilkenny+ 1993)
J/other/SAAOC/15.73 Southern reddened luminous stars. IV. (Spencer Jones+ 1993)
J/other/SAAOC/15.78 UBV photometry of HD stars (Kilkenny+ 1993)
Publications of the Astrophysical Letters
J/other/ApL/30.1 Southern catalogue of isolated pairs extension (Reduzzi+ 1995)
Publications of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory
J/other/PBeiO/17.105 Third preliminary catalogue of stars (PPCP3; Lu 1990)
J/other/PBeiO/17.120 Fourth preliminary catalogue of stars (PPCP4; Wang+ 1991)
Publications of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
J/other/PNAOJ/2.561 Binaries speckle observations. IV. (Miura+ 1992)
Peremennye Zvezdy (variable stars)
J/other/PZ/23.141 Flare stars in Pleiades (Kazarovets 1993)
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia
J/other/PASAu/10.310 Parkes-Tidbinbilla radio sources (Duncan+ 1993)
Astrofizicheskie Issledovaniya.
Izvestiya Spetsial'noj Astrofizicheskoj Observatorii
J/other/AISAO/32.31 BVr photometry in SA68, SA 5 and M 82 (Afanasiev+ 1990)
UPDATED CATALOGS AND JOURNAL TABLES
Standard documentation has been added to the following catalogs:
I. Astrometric and Positional Data
1034 Second Greenwich Catalog of Stars for 1925.0 (London 1935)
1062C Perth 70 B: Positions 24900 Stars (Hog, von der Heide 1976)
1079 Lowell Proper Motion Survey 8991 Stars Northern Hem (Giclas 1971)
1143 Fourth Fundamental Cat and Suppl (FK4, FK4S; Fricke, Kopff 1963)
1180 General Catalogue of Stars (GCPA; 1992)
II. Photometric Data
2002B Two-Micron Sky Survey (TMSS; Neugebauer, Leighton 1969)
2085 Absolute Calibration of Stellar Spectrophotometry (Johnson 1980)
2118 UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars, Celestial Equator (Landolt 1983)
2173 A Reference Catalogue of Galactic Novae (Duerbeck 1988)
III. Spectroscopic Data
3044 Atlas of Stellar Spectra (Johnson 1977-1978)
3140 Cool Carbon Stars Found with Baldone Schmidt Tel (Alksne+ 1987)
IV. Cross Identifications
4006 Catalogue of Correspondences CSI/ADS/IDS (Jung+ 1973)
V. Combined and Derived Data
5032A Stars within 25 pc of the Sun (Woolley+ 1970)
5036B Supplement to the Bright Star Catalogue (Hoffleit+ 1983)
5075 Cat of Astrophysical Parameters of Binary Systems (Malkov 1993)
VI. Miscellaneous Data
6039 Model Atmospheres for G,F,A,B,O Stars (Kurucz 1979)
6049 Constellation Boundary Data (Davenhall+ 1989)
VII. Non-Stellar and Extended Objects
7024A Strasbourg Catalog of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker+ 1980)
7072 Stellar Velocity Dispersions. I. Std Galaxies (Whitmore+ 1985)
7082A Isolated Galaxies (Karachentseva+ 1973)
7103 Galactic Globular Clusters (Monella 1985)
7162 Flat Galaxy Catalogue (Karachentsev+ 1993)
7165 Cat of Measured Redshifts of Abell Clusters of Gal (Andernach 1991)
7169 Optical Identifications of IRAS Point Sources (Wang+ 1986,87,91)
7182 Cat of High-Redshift Quasars, z >= 2.2, in SGP and F401 (Warren+ 1991)
Data reformated or corrected:
VI. Miscellaneous Data
6032 Bidelman-Parsons Spectroscopic/Bibliographic Cat (Parsons+ 1980)
ReadMe file revisited:
I. Astrometric and Positional Data
1167 Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1986 (Yoshizawa+ 1989)
II. Photometric Data
2066 Observations in H-Alpha (Ducati 1981)
2080 Homogeneous Photometry Bright Stars on DDO System (McClure+ 1981)
Added see also to ReadMe file:
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/102/611 Millimeter continuum measurements of extragalactic (STEPPE 1993)
J/A+AS/105/245 Stark broadening of spectral lines of multic (DIMITRIJEVIC 1994)
J/A+AS/107/349 Stark broadening X. (Dimitrijevic+, 1994)
J/A+AS/109/551 Stark broadening. XII. OIV & OV (Dimitrijevic+, 1995)
J/A+AS/115/351 Stark broadening. XIII. C V and P V (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)
J/A+AS/116/359 Xe II lines Stark broadening (Popovic+, 1996)
J/A+AS/117/127 Solar MgI lines Stark broadening (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/369 Stark broadening. XIV: Be III and B III (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)
J/A+AS/119/529 Stark broadening : Sr I (Dimitrijevic+, 1996)
J/A+AS/120/139 Variables in Omega Cen Fields 5139A-C (Kaluzny+ 1996)
J/A+AS/120/373 Sc II, Y II & Zr II Stark width (Popovic+ 1996)
J/A+AS/122/163 Ba I & Ba II Stark broadening (Dimitrijevic+ 1997)
Data reformated or corrected:
Astronomy and Astrophysics
J/A+A/278/379 X-ray Emission from Abell Clusters of Galaxies (Briel+ 1993)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
J/A+AS/85/915 Walraven photometry of nearby southern OB assoc (DE GEUS 1990)
J/A+AS/121/321 SMC catalogue of radiosources (Filipovic+ 1997)
J/A+AS/122/521 Kinematical data on early-type galaxies. I. (Simien+ 1997)
Astronomical Journal
J/AJ/112/2769 Behlen Observatory Survey. IV. (Schmidt+ 1996)
Astrophysical Journal
J/ApJ/473/822 A Minnesota APS Catalog of Galaxies (Hoffman+ 1996)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/104/101 Far-UV stellar photometry (Schmidt & Carruthers 1996)
J/ApJS/104/199 Minislice at the North Galactic Pole. II. (Willmer+ 1996)
ReadMe file revisited:
Astronomical Journal
J/AJ/107/751 EUV Explorer bright sources list (Malina+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1022 UBVRI Photometry of SN 1993J in M81 (Richmond+ 1994)
J/AJ/107/1054 30 Dor region UBV photometry (Malumuth+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1381 Sampling of globular clusters (Tello, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1433 Cygnus OB2 polarimetry (Kobulnicky+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1453 Light curves of SN 1993J (Benson+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1556 Late B-type stars classification (Garrison+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1577 Halo red giants reddening (Anthony-Twarog+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1629 Hercules region galaxies structures (Tarenghi+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1745 HST UVI photometry of M15. II. (Yanny+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1764 RR Lyrae and CMD of NGC 6388 (Silbermann+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1814 Chiron occultations (Bus+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/1868 Cyclic period variability in SW Cyg (Berrington+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/2067 Fabry-Perot measurements of M15 (Gebhardt+, 1994)
J/AJ/107/2093 DL Cas (Gieren+ 1994)
J/AJ/107/2240 Proper motion stars survey. XII. (Carney+, 1994)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
J/PASP/106/949 Multicolor Polarimetry of Be Stars (McDavid 1994)
J/PASP/106/1120 delta Scuti Variables II: DY Her (Milone+ 1994)
Astrophysical Journal
J/ApJ/408/484 Far-UV photometry of a field in Monoceros (Schmidt+ 1993)
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
J/ApJS/89/259 Far-UV photometry in Ori (Schmidt+ 1993)
J/ApJS/93/211 IUE survey of H I Ly{alpha} absorption. I. (Diplas+ 1994)
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