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Catalog Service:
AAVSO International Variable Star Index VSX

Short name: B/vsx IVOA Identifier: ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/vsx Bibcode: 2015yCat....102027W Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID] More Info: http://cdsarc.unistra.fr/cgi-bin/cat/B/vsx VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2013 Feb 10 06:31:38Z
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Description

This file contains Galactic stars known or suspected to be variable. It lists all stars that have an entry in the AAVSO International Variable Star Index (VSX; http://www.aavso.org/vsx). The database consisted initially of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) and the New Catalogue of Suspected Variables (NSV) and was then supplemented with a large number of variable star catalogues, as well as individual variable star discoveries or variables found in the literature. Effort has also been invested to update the entries with the latest information regarding position, type and period and to remove duplicates. The VSX database is being continually updated and maintained. For historical reasons some objects outside of the Galaxy have been included.

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

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

Creators:

Watson C.Henden A.A.Price A.

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: 2022 Mar 07 08:38:01Z
Created: 2013 Feb 10 06:31:38Z

This resource was registered on: 2013 Feb 10 06:31:38Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2022 Mar 07 08:38:01Z

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: Variable 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/vsx	Literature Reference: 2006SASS...25...47W
Related Resources: Other Related Resources TAP VizieR generic service(IsServedBy) ivo://CDS.VizieR/TAP [Res. ID] Conesearch service(IsServedBy) B/gcvs : General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2009) ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/gcvs [Res. ID]

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

	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: Interactive web page: http://vizier.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=B/vsx

	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/vsx

	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/vsx/vsx (Variable Star indeX, Version 2022-03-07)

Available endpoints for the standard interface:

http://vizier.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/B/vsx/vsx?

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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