M31Stars: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
M 31 Field Brightest Stars Catalog

Short name: M31Stars IVOA Identifier: ivo://nasa.heasarc/m31starsPublisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID] More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/m31stars.html VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2025 Mar 07 00:00:00Z
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Description

Thie database table is a catalog of 11438 stars in the field of M31 and 8778 stars in 2 nearby "foreground" fields. It is based on a set of Tautenburg Schmidt plates in U, B, V, and R taken by van den Bergh. The range of visual magnitudes of stars is 11.5 < V < 20. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARCivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID]

Creator: Berkhuijsen, Humphreys, Ghigo, Zumach Contributor:

Contact Information:

X NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk
Email:

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 apparently provides only public data

Relevant dates for this Resource:

Representative: 2025 Mar 07

This resource was registered on: 2025 Mar 07 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2025 Mar 07 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: Star This service provides data from: facility: STAR CATALOG
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/m31stars.html	Literature Reference: 1988A&AS...76...65B
Related Resources: Services that provide access to data in this resource: HEASARC TAP ivo://nasa.heasarc/services/xamin [Res. ID]

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Reference Coordinate System: UTC-ICRS-TOPOXXivo://STClib/CoordSys#UTC-ICRS-TOPO[Res. ID] Sky Coverage: Regions covered: All-sky: The data from this resource is distributed over the entire sky. Typical Size Scale (Region of Regard): , 0.0166666666666667 deg Wavebands covered: Optical

Available Service Interfaces

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.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=m31stars&

Maximum search radius accepted: 180 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 99999

This service supports the VERB input parameter:: Use VERB=1 to minimize the returned columns or VERB=3 to maximize.

	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: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap

	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: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/getvotable.pl?name=m31stars

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:

Interactive web page: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_m31stars&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1