Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM: Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 2
N. P. M. Kuin (1), J. E. Gass (1), F. Ochsenbein (2), N. G. Roman (1),
G. L. Schneider (1), D. T. Leisawitz (3), and C.-C. J. Lyu (1)
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Astronomical Data Center (ADC)
Astrophysics Data Facility, Code 631
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, U.S.A.
December 1995
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(2) Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg, France
(3) Astrophysics Data Facility, NASA/GSFC, U.S.A.
Introduction
This is the second volume in a series of CD-ROMs that present a selection
of
astronomical catalogs from the Astronomical Data Center (ADC). The
catalogs
cover a variety of subjects and were selected because they are large or
frequently requested. For example, this CD-ROM contains the large
Durchmusterung
catalogs that did not fit on Volume 1 as well as some other large
catalogs like
the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogs. There are two versions of this CD-ROM,
one
in ASCII (Volume 2, No. 1) and one in FITS (Volume 2, No. 2). Only one of
these
versions is packaged with the booklet. Please refer to this CD-ROM as
Kuin,
N.P.M., Gass, J.E., Ochsenbein, F., Roman, N.G., Schneider, G.L.,
Leisawitz,
D.T., and Lyu, C.-C.J., "Selected Astronomical Catalogs" Vol. 2,
Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, NASA/GSFC, 1995.
The documentation of the catalogs follows the standard adopted by the
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/ADC and the Centre de Donnees
astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) in France. For each catalog a standard
documentation file called "readme" was created. By using this readme file
as
input and software from the CDS (anafile), each catalog was checked for
the
proper data format, units, allowed data ranges, and correct sorting of
the
data as specified in the readme. During the verification process errors
that
were found were corrected in both the data and the documentation. Some
catalog
data files were reformatted to enable their description in the byte-bybyte
tables in the standard readme documentation. This standard format was
used with
another CDS program (tofits) to convert the data, originally in flat
ASCII, to
the FITS format. The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is the data
exchange standard endorsed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
(See
ADC Contact Information). The body of the readme file is incorporated in
the
FITS primary and table extension headers.
In Volume 1 a great effort was made to have uniform column labels (FITS
keywords) across the whole CD-ROM catalog collection. The documentation
standard applied here assures uniformity in the labeling of positional
and
some other information. However, the column label syntax has been refined
to indicate in a uniform way certain relationships between table columns
such as
"reference to," "uncertainty flag of," "note to," "weights of," "mean
error of,"
etc. In addition, the standard documentation file may define NULL values
and
specify allowed data ranges and sorting order. The catalog documentation
standard, which is in the document directory requires that SI units be
used
and thus complies with the IAU recommendations.
Disk Organization and Format
The disk has a simple layout with, at the highest level, separate
directories
for the catalogs, software, and additional documentation. The CD-ROM is
formatted according to the ISO 9660 standard, and the file names have
been
restricted to eight characters with a three-character extension.
The data directory is organized like the ADC on-line FTP archive, with a
separate directory for each catalog. The data files are located in the
catalogs
directory. The ADC catalog identification numbers are used as
subdirectory
names. The software directory contains catalog browsing software. The
additional documentation directory contains a listing of catalogs
available
from the ADC as of November 1995, a brief overview of the ADC, and some
other
documents that may be useful.
The format of the data files are either ASCII text files (Volume 2, No.
1) or
FITS files (Volume 2, No. 2). The FITS files have an extension .fit, a
logical
record length of 2,880 bytes and no record terminators. ASCII text files
have extensions .dat for data, .doc for documentation, .tex for files
in LaTeX or plain TeX, .sty for the LaTeX style file, .f or .for for
Fortran code, .txt for text files, .hqx for binhex versions of the
Macintosh software files, .bas for QBasic code and .htm for html
formatted
files. The readme files are text files that have no extension. Each ASCII
text
file record is terminated by a carriage return (decimal value 13; hex 0D)
and a linefeed (decimal value 10; hex 0A). All the catalog data files
(with extension .dat) have been changed to fixed record length by padding
short records with blanks. Documentation files have a variable record
length. The software files are in several forms (see also page 7). The
FITS Table Browser (FTB) software appears in both compressed form in a
.zip file (use PKZIP to decompress), packaged in a UNIX .tar file and
in a compressed tar form. Included executables can be identified from
their file name extension (.exe). The Macintosh software are
HQX files and must be converted. All the other software files are in
flat ASCII format.
Table 1.
List of Catalogs on the CD-ROM
Astrometric and Positional Data:
ID
1108
1114
1119
1122
1146
1175
1193
1196
1197A
1199
1993)
Abbreviated Title
(First Author, Year)
Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD; Gill, Kapteyn 1895-1900)
Cordoba Durchmusterung (Thome 1892-1932)
Southern Durchmusterung (Schoenfeld 1886)
Bonner Durchmusterung (BD; Argelander 1859-1862, Kuestner 1903)
Positions and Proper Motions (Roeser, Bastian 1988)
Fifth Fundamental Catalogue, FK5 Extension (Fricke et al. 1991)
Positions and Proper Motions - South (Bastian et al. 1993)
Hipparcos Input Catalogue, Version 2 (Turon et al. 1993)
Tycho Input Catalogue (revised version) (Egret et al. 1992)
Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog (Klemola et al.
1200
Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Ref Gal (Klemola et al.
1993)
1204
Orbital Elements of 5566 Minor Planets (Batrakov, Shor 1993)
1206
Bright Stars Supplement, PPM and PPM South Star Catalog (Bastian
et al.
1993)
1208
90000 Stars Supplement to the PPM Star Catalog (Roeser et al.
1994)
1214
NPM1 Cross Index (Klemola et al. 1994)
Photometric Data:
2082
Galactic O-Type Stars (Garmany et al. 1982)
2155
Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini et al.
1988)
2167
General Catalogue of Photometric Data (Hauck et al. 1990)
2172
General Catalog of Variable Stars, 4th Edition (GCVS4; Kholopov
et al.
1990, 1992)
2179
Southern Spectrophotometric Standards. I + II (Hamuy et al. 1992,
1994)
2183
UBVRI Photometric Stars Mag Range 11.5 < V < 16.0 (Landolt 1992)
2190
IRAS Minor Planet Survey (IMPS; Tedesco et al. 1992)
2193
UBV Photoelectric Catalogue: Data 1986-1992 (Mermilliod 1994)
2201
Sternberg Supernovae Catalogue (Tsvetkov et al. 1995)
Spectroscopic Data:
3045
3165
1991)
3166
3167
3179
3181
Infrared Spectra for 32 Stars (Johnson et al. 1970)
A Catalogue of [Fe/H] Determinations (Cayrel de Strobel et al.
A New Library of Stellar Optical Spectra (Silva et al. 1992)
Atlas of UV Spectra of Starforming Galaxies (Kinney et al. 1993)
Southern MK Standards 5800-10200A (Danks, Dennefeld 1994)*
Near Infrared Spectra of Normal Stars (Torres-Dodgen et al. 1993)
Combined and Derived Data:
5042
Orb Elements, Masses, Lum of Close Binaries (Svechnikov et al.
1984)
5059
Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries, Related Obj
(Ritter
1988)
5073A
Third Catalog Em-Line Stars of the Orion Population (Herbig, Bell
1988)
5079
Catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables (Downes and Shara
1993)
Miscellaneous Data:
6072
6073
6074
Atomic Transition Probabilities, Sc-Ni (NIST 1993)
Atomic Spectral Lines Data OII, Mg, Al, S, Sc (NIST 1993)
Atomic Energy Level Data (NIST 1993)
Non-Stellar and Extended Objects Data:
7091
IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey 1.00 (IPAC 1986)
7140
Galaxies Behind Milky Way (Saito et al. 1991)
7141
Spectrophotometric Atlas of Galaxies (Kennicutt 1992)
7142
Southern Redshifts Catalogue, 5th Version (Fairall, Jones 1991)
7152
Einstein Observatory Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS;
Gioia et
al. 1990, Stocke et al. 1991)
7155
Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC3; de Vaucouleurs
et al.
1991)
7156
Catalog of 558 Pulsars (Taylor et al. 1993)
7158
Revised and Updated Catalog of QSOs (Hewitt, Burbidge 1993)
7163
Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (Green 1994)
7164
CfA Redshift Catalogue (Huchra et al. 1993)
7166
Quasars and Active Nuclei, 6th Edition (Veron-Cetty et al. 1993)
7179
Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-Excess Galaxies (Takase et al. 1993)
7185
IRAS 1.2 Jy Redshift Survey (Strauss et al. 1990, 1992, 1995)
Radio Data:
8015
1990)
8016
8017
8018
8021
8022
8023
8024
8025
8031
1995)
Parkes Radio Sources Catalogue, Version 1.01 (Wright, Otrupcek
Molonglo Reference Catalogue of Radio Sources (Large et al. 1991)
31524 1.4-GHz Sources (White, Becker 1992)
6C Survey of Radio Sources I (6CSRSI; Baldwin et al. 1985)
6C Survey of Radio Sources II (6CSRSII; Hales et al. 1988)
6C Survey of Radio Sources III (6CSRSIII; Hales et al. 1990)
6C Survey of Radio Sources IV (6CSRSIV; Hales et al. 1991)
6C Survey of Radio Sources V (6CSRSV; Hales et al. 1993)
6C Survey of Radio Sources VI (6CSRSVI; Hales et al. 1993)
Revised source list for the Rees 38-MHz survey (Hales et al.
*Volume 2, No. 1 contains ASCII text files for both documentation and
data;
Volume 2, No. 2 contains the documentation as ASCII text files and the
data
as FITS format. Catalog 3179 is available only in FITS format and thus
appears
only on disk Number 2.
Catalog Browsing Software
Included in this CD-ROM volume are software tools useful for browsing
and/or extracting data from the catalogs. The same five software packages
are included on both the ASCII version (Volume 2, No. 1) and the FITS
version
(Volume 2, No. 2) of this CD-ROM. BBEdit Lite and Browser are for the
Macintosh. FIND, Aurora, and the FITS Table Browser for IBM PC and
compatibles
with the DOS operating system. The FITS Table Browser will also work on
some
UNIX systems. They allow the user to edit large files, do catalog
specific
work, or access FITS files.
Please note that both freeware and shareware are on the disks. The user
is
obliged to comply with the shareware agreement outlined in the
documentation
accompanying the software. This applies to the Aurora and Browser
shareware.
BBEdit Lite is freeware, as explained in the documentation accompanying
it.
FIND and FTB are freeware and are distributed "as-is" with no guarantee
of
any kind.
For browsing the FITS files and extracting records of interest, L.
Brotzman's FITS Table Browser is useful. It is included in its
original form. The FITS Table Browser was primarily written to allow
owners of an IBM-PC under the MS-DOS operating system to access FITS
files. The Browser software will allow the user to access FITS files
on the Macintosh platform. Selected records may be extracted from
ASCII tables using the QBasic program FIND provided J.A. Watko. The
Aurora, and BBEdit Lite editors give access to large files such as those
on the CD-ROM. Aurora allows the editing of extremely large files (up to
1GB).
It is hoped that the FITS Table Browser Users' Guide, prepared by T. K.
Simmons
during his summer student internship at the ADC, will help new users of
the
browser to avoid some of the problems experienced by their predecessors.
The
Users' Guide describes how to locate and extract the desired records from
a
FITS table. The original FITS Table Browser was written specifically to
work
with the catalogs on Volume 1. The features that were designed to take
advantage of information given in the Volume 1 FITS header comments do
not
work with the comments in FITS header files in Volume 2, No. 2. The user
is cautioned to review the FITS headers separately and to give particular
attention to the specific notes on the fields, which in Volume 2, No. 2
can
only be viewed by reading the header comments or the readme file. In all
other
respects the FITS Table Browser works with the FITS formatted catalog
files.
Printed Durchmusterungen
Some printed versions of the Durchmusterungen catalogs are still
available from
the ADC. These are identical to the catalogs that appear on the CD-ROM.
To
obtain a copy, contact the Coordinated Request and User Support Office of
the
NSSDC at Code 633.4 of the NASA/Goddard Space Fight Center, U.S.A.
(Internet:
request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov; telephone: (301) 286-6695; FAX: (301) 2861635).
Acknowledgments
Funding for this work was provided by the NASA Office of Space Science
under
contract NAS5-30960. The ADC is overseen and receives guidance from the
Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF) at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
The
National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) provided support during the
editing
and premastering of the CD-ROM. We acknowledge the assistance provided by
Ms.
Miranda Robinson our technical editor, and the cheerful support of the
NSSDC's
Richard Chu during the making of the CD-Recordable premasters. The data
were
given to the international astronomical data centers (ADC and CDS) by
many
authors whose names are listed in the readme files. Usage of the data in
future publications should be acknowledged by citing the original
reference as
well as this CD-ROM as the delivery vehicle. Many people helped to
prepare the
data in the standard form and validate the results. We are grateful to
Francois
Ochsenbein of the Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS),
France
for having implemented the documentation standard in his catalog
preparation
software. We thank Lee Brotzman for his encouragement during the early
phases
of the project; Nancy Oliversen for her input during the startup phase;
Teheran
K. Simmons for his enthusiastic work on the FITS Table Browser
documentation;
and Julie Anne Watko for her work on the FIND program and its
documentation.
We thank the 113 respondents to an E-mail survey conducted in the fall of
1994
to solicit community input. The enthusiasm and encouragement that they
expressed in response to the survey kept us motivated.
Cover and disc designs by James Gass and Rob Kilgore.
Front cover art, "Tycho at Uraniborg", courtesy Yerkes Observatory.
Star photo courtesy Nancy Roman.
References
Brotzman, L. E., and Gessner, S. E., Selected Astronomical Catalogs,
Volume 1,
Astronomical Data Center/NSSDC/IAU, NASA/GSFC, 1992.
ADC Contact Information
The ADC maintains a World Wide Web site at URL http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
and
an ftp site at ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/. If errors are found to
exist
on the enclosed CD-ROM, they will be documented in the "errors"
subdirectory
of the ftp site. Information on the FITS standard and the NASA FITS
Support
Office can be found at URL
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/fits/fits_home.html.
GENERAL INQUIRIES DEALING WITH CATALOG REQUESTS:
Requesters WITHIN the United States:
NSSDC Coordinated Request and User Support Office
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 633.4
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, U.S.A.
Requesters OUTSIDE the United States:
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For all requesters:
Internet:
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GENERAL INQUIRIES ON ASTRONOMICAL CATALOGS, DATA SUBMISSION, DATA
AVAILABILITY,
AND THE ADC'S INTERNET SERVICES:
Astronomical Data Center
Code 631
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, U.S.A.
Gail L. Schneider
Internet:
gail.l.schneider@gsfc.nasa.gov or
help@adc.gsfc.nasa.gov
Telephone: (301) 286-8310; FAX: (301) 286-1771
Melissa C. Larkin
Internet:
larkin@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
Telephone: (301) 286-0679; FAX: (301) 286-1635
QUESTIONS ABOUT SCIENTIFIC CONTENT OF CATALOGS:
N. Paul M. Kuin
Internet:
kuin@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
Telephone:
(301) 286-0677; FAX: (301) 286-1771
Nancy G. Roman
Internet:
nancy.g.roman@gsfc.nasa.gov
Telephone:
(301) 286-4070; FAX: (301) 286-1771
GENERAL QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS ON ADC SERVICES AND SUPPORT:
Nancy G. Roman
Internet:
nancy.g.roman@gsfc.nasa.gov
Telephone:
(301) 286-4070; FAX: (301) 286-1771
David T. Leisawitz
Internet:
leisawitz@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov
Telephone:
(301) 286-0807; FAX: (310) 286-1771