- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hic
- Title:
- Hipparcos Input Catalog
- Short Name:
- HIC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database table contains the Hipparcos Input Main Cataloge of 118209 stars. The Hipparcos Input Catalogue was constructed as the observing program for the European Space Agency's Hipparcos astrometry mission. The requirements of the project in terms of completeness, sky coverage, astrometric and photometric accuracy, as well as the necessary optimization of the scientific impact, resulted in an extended effort to compile and homogenize existing data, to clarify sources and identifications, and, where needed, to collect new data matching the required accuracy. This has resulted in an unprecedented catalog of stellar data including up-to-date information of positions, proper motions, magnitudes and colors, and (wherever available) spectral types, radial velocities, multiplicity and variability information. The catalog is complete to well-defined magnitude limits and includes a substantial sampling of the most important stellar categories present in the solar neighborhood beyond these limits. The magnitudes vary from 7.3 to 9 mag as a function of galactic latitude and spectral type, and there are no stars fainter than about V=13 mag. The 118209 stars of the Hipparcos Input Catalogue were selected from some 214000 distinct candidates contained in some 214 observations programs. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hipparcos
- Title:
- Hipparcos Main Catalog
- Short Name:
- Hipparcos
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues are the primary products of the European Space Agency's astrometric mission, Hipparcos. The satellite, which operated for four years, returned high quality scientific data from November 1989 to March 1993. Each of the catalogues contains a large quantity of very high quality astrometric and photometric data. In addition there are associated annexes featuring variability and double/multiple star data, and solar system astrometric and photometric measurements. In the case of the Hipparcos Catalogue, the principal parts are provided in both printed and machine-readable form (on CDROM). In the case of the Tycho Catalogue, results are provided in machine-readable form only (on CDROM). Although in general only the final reduced and calibrated astrometric and photometric data are provided, some auxiliary files containing results from intermediate stages of the data processing, of relevance for the more-specialised user, have also been retained for publication. (Some, but not all, data files are available from the Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg.) The global data analysis tasks, proceeding from nearly 1000 Gbit of raw satellite data to the final catalogues, was a lengthy and complex process, and was undertaken by the NDAC and FAST Consortia, together responsible for the production of the Hipparcos Catalogue, and the Tycho Consortium, responsible for the production of the Tycho Catalogue. A fourth scientific consortium, the INCA Consortium, was responsible for the construction of the Hipparcos observing programme, compiling the best-available data for the selected stars before launch into the Hipparcos Input Catalogue. The production of the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues marks the formal end of the involvement in the mission by the European Space Agency and the four scientific consortia. For much more information about this catalog, such as fuller descriptions of the parameters, the user is urged to check the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogs website at <a href="https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/hipparcos/catalogues">https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/hipparcos/catalogues</a>. This database table was created by the HEASARC in April 2000 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/239">CDS Catalog I/239</a> file hip_main.dat.gz, the Hipparcos Main Catalog. It was updated in October 2002 to fix some entries which were missing coordinates. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/hipnewcat
- Title:
- Hipparcos New Astrometric Catalog
- Short Name:
- HIPNEWCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- A new reduction of the astrometric data as produced by the Hipparcos mission has been published, claiming accuracies for nearly all stars brighter than Hipparcos magnitude H_p = 8 to be better, by up to a factor 4, than in the original catalog. The new Hipparcos astrometric catalog has been checked for the quality of the data and the consistency of the formal errors as well as the possible presence of error correlations. The differences with the earlier publication of the Hipparcos Catalog are explained in the reference paper. The internal errors are followed through the reduction process, and the external errors are investigated on the basis of a comparison with radio observations of a small selection of stars, and the distribution of negative parallaxes. Error correlation levels are investigated and the reduction by more than a factor 10 as obtained in the new catalog is explained. The formal errors on the parallaxes for the new catalog are confirmed. The presence of a small amount of additional noise, though unlikely, cannot be ruled out. The new reduction of the Hipparcos astrometric data provides an improvement by a factor 2.2 in the total weight compared to the Hipparcos catalog published in 1997, and, according to the author, provides much improved data for a wide range of studies on stellar luminosities and local galactic kinematics. Note that this catalog version is slightly different from the one published in the book, as an error that sometimes affected the goodness of fit value for the solution was corrected. The first version of these data archived at the CDS (between June and 15 September 2008) also contained errors which were corrected after this date. This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2009 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/311">CDS Catalog I/311</a> file hip2.dat, "the Astrometric Catalogue". This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/intomcvs
- Title:
- INTEGRAL OMC First Catalog of Optically Variable Sources
- Short Name:
- INTOMCVS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) on board the high-energy INTEGRAL satellite provides photometry in the Johnson V-band within a 5 by 5 degree field of view. The OMC is able to detect optical sources brighter than around V ~ 18, from a previously selected list of potential targets of interest. After more than nine years of observations, the OMC database contains light curves for more than 70 000 sources (with more than 50 photometric points each). The objectives of the present work have been to characterize the potential variability of the objects monitored by OMC, to identify periodic sources and to compute their periods, taking advantage of the stability and long monitoring time of the OMC. The first catalog of variable sources observed by OMC has been developed with observations from October 2002 to February 2010. To detect potential variability, the authors have performed a chi-squared test, finding 5263 variable sources, for 1337 of which the periods have been determined, out of an initial sample of 6071 objects with good photometric quality and more than 300 data points each. They have studied the potential periodicity of these sources using a method based on the phase dispersion minimization technique, optimized to handle light curves with very different shapes. For each object in the catalog, the median of the visual magnitude, the magnitude at maximum and minimum brightness in the light curve during the window of observations and the period, when found, are provided. The types of variable objects in the catalogue include eclipsing binaries, pulsating stars, rotating stars, eruptive stars, extragalactic objects, X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables, Be stars and other objects with unknown kinds of variability. Links to charts for each object, including the DSS image around the target, the unfolded and folded light curves with the periods that the authors have derived and/or with the cataloged ones are provided in this database. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2013 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/548/A79">CDS Catalog J/A+A/548/A79</a> file omc-var.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/lspmnorth
- Title:
- Lepine and Shara Northern Stars Proper Motion (LSPM-North) Catalog
- Short Name:
- LSPMNORTH
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The LSPM catalog is a comprehensive list of 61,977 stars north of the J2000 celestial equator that have proper motions larger than 0.15" yr<sup>-1</sup> (local-background-stars frame). The catalog has been generated primarily as a result of the authors' systematic search for high-proper-motion stars in the Digitized Sky Surveys using their SUPERBLINK software (note that this catalog is consequently also sometimes referred to as the SUPERBLINK Catalog). At brighter magnitudes, the catalog incorporates stars and data from the Tycho-2 Catalog and also, to a lesser extent, from the All-Sky Compiled Catalogue of 2.5 million stars (ASCC-2.5: Kharchenko 2001). The LSPM catalog considerably expands over the old Luyten (Luyten Half-Second (LHS) and New Luyten Two-Tenths (NLTT) catalogs, superseding them for northern declinations. Positions are given with an accuracy of <~ 100 milliarcseconds (mas) at the 2000.0 epoch, and absolute proper motions are given with an accuracy of ~ 8 mas/yr. Corrections to the local-background-stars proper motions have been calculated, and absolute proper motions in the extragalactic frame are given. Whenever available, the authors also give optical B<sub>T</sub> and V<sub>T</sub> magnitudes (from Tycho-2, ASCC-2.5), photographic B<sub>J</sub>, R<sub>F</sub>, and I<sub>N</sub> magnitudes (from the USNO-B1 catalog), and infrared J, H, and K<sub>s</sub> magnitudes (from 2MASS). An estimated V magnitude and V-J color is also provided for nearly all catalog entries, which is useful for initial classification of the stars. The catalog is estimated to be over 99% complete at high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 15 degrees) and over 90% complete at low Galactic latitudes (|b| < 15 degrees), down to a magnitude of V = 19.0, and has a limiting magnitude V = 21.0. All the northern stars listed in the LHS and NLTT catalogs have been re-identified, and their positions, proper motions, and magnitudes reevaluated. The catalog also lists a large number of completely new objects, which promise to expand very significantly the census of red dwarfs, sub-dwarfs, and white dwarfs in the vicinity of the Sun. All of Luyten's NLTT stars north of the J2000 celestial equator that do NOT appear in the LSPM Catalog are listed in Table 3 of the published paper, together with the explanations as to why they were not included in the LSPM Catalog. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2013 based on an electronic version of Table 1 from the reference paper which was obtained from the CDS web site (their catalog I/298). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/lmxbcat
- Title:
- Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Catalog (4th Edition, 2007)
- Short Name:
- LMXB
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is the Fourth Edition of the Catalog of Low-mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. The catalog has a companion catalog of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) which is called HMXBCAT in the HEASARC database system). The catalog contains source name(s), coordinates, X-ray flux, system parameters, and stellar parameters of the components and other characteristic properties of 187 low-mass X-ray binaries, together with references to a comprehensive selection of the relevant literature. The aim of this catalog is to provide some basic information on the X-ray sources and their counterparts in other wavelength ranges (gamma-rays, UV, optical, IR, and radio). Some sources, however, are only tentatively identified as low-mass X-ray binaries on the basis of their X-ray properties being similar to the known low-mass X-ray binaries. Further identification in other wavelength bands is needed to finally determine the nature of these sources. In cases where there is some doubt about the low-mass nature of the X-ray binary, this is mentioned. Literature published before 1 October 2006 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. This online catalog was created by the HEASARC in September 2007 based on machine-readable tables obtained from the ADC/CDS data centers (their catalog J/A+A/469/807, tables lmxb.dat and lmxbnote.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/macs
- Title:
- Magellanic Catalog of Stars
- Short Name:
- MACS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars (MACS) is based on scans of ESO Schmidt plates and contains about 244,000 stars covering large areas around the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The positions refer to the FK5 system via the PPM Catalog. A comparison of positions from different plates shows internal errors at a level of 0.15 to o.23 arcseconds; the positional accuracy is estimated to be better than 0.5 arcseconds for 99% of the stars. The limiting blue magnitude of the MACS is less than 16.5 magnitudes, but the catalog is not complete to this level, as only those stars are included which are undisturbed by close neighbors as verified by visual (interactive) screening (in order to obtain a clean astrometric reference). This database table was created at the HEASARC in June 1998 based on the ADC/<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/221">CDS Catalog I/221</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/maghmxbcat
- Title:
- Magellanic Clouds High-Mass X-Ray Binaries Catalog
- Short Name:
- MCHMXRB
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database table contains a catalog of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC). The catalog lists source name(s), coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, and X-ray luminosities for 128 HMXBs, together with the stellar parameters of the components, other characteristic properties and a comprehensive selection of the relevant literature. The aim of this catalog is to provide easy access to the basic information on the X-ray sources and their counterparts in other wavelength ranges (UV, optical, IR, radio). Most of the sources have been identified as Be/X-ray binaries. Some sources, however, are only tentatively identified as HMXBs on the basis of a transient character and/or a hard X-ray spectrum. Further identification in other wavelength bands is needed to finally determine the nature of these sources. In cases where there is some doubt about the high-mass nature of the X-ray binary this is mentioned. Literature published before 1 May 2005 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. Information on the numbers used to code references is available at <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/442/1135/refs.dat">CDS</a>. Individual notes on each HMXB are also available for <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/442/1135/notes1.dat">SMC systems</a> and for <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/442/1135/notes2.dat">LMC systems</a> at the same site. This Browse table contains the combination of 92 HMXBs in the SMC and 36 HMXBs in the LMC which were listed in Tables 1 and 2, respectively, of the published version of this catalog. The HEASARC has added a parameter called cloud_id which can be used to identify which Magellanic Cloud any specified HMXB belongs to (the SMC or the LMC). This database was created by the HEASARC in December 2005 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/442/1135">CDS Catalog J/A+A/442/1135</a>, table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mcksion
- Title:
- McCook-Sion White Dwarf Catalog (Web Version)
- Short Name:
- WDw/MS
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Web Version of the McCook-Sion White Dwarf Catalog contains in excess of 500 more entries than the previous published version, the 4th Edition (1999) of the Villanova White Dwarf Catalog. It is a catalog of white dwarfs which have been identified spectroscopically. For each degenerate star, the following data entries with references are provided: (1) catalog coordinate designation or WD number, (2) the right ascension and declination, (3) the spectral type based upon the new system, (4) a catalog symbol denoting binary membership, (5) proper motion and position angle, (6) broad-band UBV Photometry, V, B-V, U-B, (7) multichannel spectrophotometry, V(MC), g-r, (8) Stromgren narrow-band photometry y, b-y, u-b, (9) an absolute visual magnitude based upon the best available color-magnitude calibration or trigonometric parallax, (10) the observed radial velocity uncorrected for gravitational redshift or solar motion, and (11) the trigonometric parallax, with mean error, when available. Note that finding charts for many of the white dwarfs present in this catalog can be found at the following URLs: <pre> <a href="http://procyon.lpl.arizona.edu/WD/charts/">http://procyon.lpl.arizona.edu/WD/charts/</a> <a href="http://deneb.astro.warwick.ac.uk/phsaap/wdcharts/">http://deneb.astro.warwick.ac.uk/phsaap/wdcharts/</a> </pre> The second URL contains the finding charts from T.R. Marsh. This is list with about 600 charts. The University of Arizona charts currently have about 2000 charts, but that list is a work in progress with the intent of eventually having all charts available. As discussed in more detail in the HEASARC_Implementation section, this HEASARC representation of the White Dwarf Catalog contains only a subset of the data presented in either the printed version or the version available at the Villanova website, but is intended to be suitable for cross-identification purposes with other catalogs, e.g., of X-ray sources. The original sources for this catalog should always be consulted for the full set of information that is available for these white dwarfs. This database table is based on the Web version of the Villanova White Dwarf Catalog. It was initially created by the HEASARC in May 2003. It is based on the files WD00-07.txt, WD08-15.txt, WD16-23.txt, and WDNewStars.txt obtained from <pre> <a href="ftp://astronomy.villanova.edu/mccook/Current%20Web%20Version%20of%20WD%20Catalog/">ftp://astronomy.villanova.edu/mccook/Current%20Web%20Version%20of%20WD%20Catalog/</a> </pre> It is automatically updated periodically whenever the catalog's authors update these files. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/m31stars
- Title:
- M 31 Field Brightest Stars Catalog
- Short Name:
- M31Stars
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- 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 .
