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Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
Spectroscopically identified white dwarfs

Short name: B/wd
IVOA Identifier: ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/wd
Bibcode: 1999ApJS..121....1M
Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID]
More Info: http://cdsarc.unistra.fr/cgi-bin/cat/B/wd
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2016 Oct 19 13:54:11Z
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Description


This is an update of the Villanova catalog published in the ApJS paper, corresponding to the Web version of the catalog in Apr 2014 (see http://www.astronomy.villanova.edu/WDCatalog/index.html). The introduction to the 1999 catalog is in the file "preface.tex". This updated version lists 14294 unique white dwarfs for a total of 27975 rows (multiple observations).

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID]

Creators:
McCook G.P.Sion E.M.

Contact Information:
X CDS support team
Email: cds-question at unistra.fr
Address: CDS
Observatoire de Strasbourg
11 rue de l'Universite
F-67000 Strasbourg
France

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service provides only public data.
Relevant dates for this Resource:
  • Updated: 2018 Jan 05 08:57:19Z
  • Created: 2016 Oct 19 13:54:11Z

This resource was registered on: 2016 Oct 19 13:54:11Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2021 Oct 21 00:00:00Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Catalog
Subject keywords:
  • Astronomical reference materials
  • Stellar spectral types
  • White dwarf stars
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://cdsarc.unistra.fr/cgi-bin/cat/B/wd Literature Reference: 2016yCat....102035M

Related Resources:

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TAP VizieR generic service(IsServedBy) ivo://CDS.VizieR/TAP [Res. ID]
Conesearch service(IsServedBy)
J/MNRAS/455/3413 : New WD and subdwarf stars in SDSS DR12 (Kepler+, 2016) ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/455/3413 [Res. ID]

Data Coverage Information

This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time.

Wavebands covered:

  • Optical

Rights and Usage Information

This section describes the rights and usage information for this data.

Rights:

Available Service Interfaces

Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
  • URL-based interface: http://vizier.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=B/wd
Table Access Protocol - Auxiliary ServiceXX

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input an ADQL or PQL query and returns tabular data.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://tapvizier.u-strasbg.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:
Cone search capability for table B/wd/catalog (Data for the White Dwarfs)
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://vizier.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/B/wd/catalog?
Maximum search radius accepted: 180.0 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 50000
This service supports the VERB input parameter:
Use VERB=1 to minimize the returned columns or VERB=3 to maximize.


Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute

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