- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/wds
- Title:
- The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog
- Short Name:
- B/wds
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2022 08:05:57
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog (WDS) is the successor to the Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars, 1961.0 (IDS; Jeffers and van den Bos, Publ. Lick Obs. 21). Three earlier double star catalogs in XXth century, those by Burnham (BDS, 1906, "General Catalogue of Double Stars within 121 degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of Washington), Innes (SDS, 1927, "Southern Double Star Catalogue -19 to -90 degrees", Union Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa), and Aitken (ADS, 1932 "New General Catalogue of Double Stars within 121 degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of Washington), each covered only a portion of the sky. Both the IDS and the WDS cover the entire sky, and the WDS is intended to contain all known visual double stars for which at least one differential measure has been published. The WDS is continually updated as published data become available. Prior to this, three major updates have been published (Worley and Douglass 1984, "Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1984.0", U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington; Worley and Douglass 1997A&AS..125..523W, Cat. I/237; Mason, Wycoff, Hartkopf, Douglass and Worley 2001AJ....122.3466M; and Mason et al. 2006.5). The Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS) has seen numerous changes since the last major release of the catalog. The application of many techniques and considerable industry over the past few years has yielded significant gains in both the number of systems and the number of measures. Is is maintained by the US Naval Observatory, and represents the world's principal database of astrometric double and multiple star information. The WDS contains positions (J2000), discoverer designations, epochs, position angles, separations, magnitudes, spectral types, proper motions, and, when available, Durchmusterung numbers and notes for the components of the systems.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/237
- Title:
- The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1996.0
- Short Name:
- I/237
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1996.0 (WDS) is the successor to the catalog of the same name dated 1984 <I/107>. The WDS is intended to contain all known visual double stars for which at least one differential measure has been published through the end of 1995. It includes a discoverer code, the date of the first and last observations, the number of observations, the position angle and separation for the first and last observation, the magnitudes and spectral types of the components (when available) the proper motion of the system, Durchmusterung numbers of the components and notes for further information.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/14
- Title:
- The Wide-field VLBA Calibrator Survey (WFCS)
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/14
- Date:
- 09 Mar 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper presents the results of the largest very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) absolute astrometry campaign to date of 13645 radio source observations with the Very Long Baseline Array. Of these, 7220 have been detected, including 6755 target sources that have never been observed with VLBI before. This makes the present VLBI catalog the largest ever published. The positions of the target sources have been determined with the median uncertainty of 1.7mas, and 15542 images of 7171 sources have been generated. Unlike previous absolute radio astrometry campaigns, observations were made at 4.3 and 7.6GHz simultaneously using a single wide-band receiver. Because of the fine spectral and time resolutions, the field of view was 4'-8'-much greater than the 10"-20" in previous surveys. This made possible the use of input catalogs with low position accuracy and the detection of a compact component in extended sources. Unlike previous absolute astrometry campaigns, both steep- and flat-spectrum sources were observed. The observations were scheduled in the so-called filler mode to fill the gaps between other high-priority programs. This was achieved by the development of the totally automatic scheduling procedure.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/638/A46
- Title:
- The XXL Survey. XLI. GMRT XXL-N 610MHz
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/638/A46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the space density evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the 610MHz radio survey of the XXL-North field, performed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The survey covers an area of 30.4deg^2^, with a beamsize of 6.5arcsec. The survey is divided into two parts, one covering an area of 11.9deg^2^ with 1{sigma} rms noise of 200uJy/beam and the other spanning 18.5deg^2^ with rms noise of 45uJy/beam. We extracted the catalog of radio components above 7. The catalog was cross-matched with a multi-wavelength catalog of the XXL-North field (covering about 80% of the radio XXL-North field) using a likelihood ratio method, which determines the counterparts based on their positions and their optical properties. The multi-component sources were matched visually with the aid of a computer code: Multi-Catalog Visual Cross-Matching (MCVCM). A flux density cut above 1mJy selects AGN hosts with a high purity in terms of star formation contamination based on the available source counts. After crossmatching and elimination of observational biases arising from survey incompleteness, the number of remaining sources was 1150. We constructed the rest-frame 1.4GHz radio luminosity functions of these sources using the maximum volume method. This survey allows us to probe luminosities of 23<~log(L1.4GHz[W/Hz])<~28 up to redshifts of z~=2.1. Our results are consistent with the results from the literature in which AGN are comprised of two differently evolving populations, where the high luminosity end of the luminosity functions evolves more strongly than the low-luminosity end.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/1163
- Title:
- Third VLBA calibrator survey: VCS3
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/129/1163
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the third extension to the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey, containing 360 new sources not previously observed with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The survey, based on three 24 hour VLBA observing sessions, fills the areas on the sky above declination -45{deg} where the calibrator density is less than one source within a 4{deg} radius disk at any given direction. The positions were derived from astrometric analysis of the group delays determined at 2.3 and 8.6GHz frequency bands using the CALC/SOLVE software package. The VCS3 catalog of source positions, plots of correlated flux density versus length of projected baseline, and contour plots and FITS files of naturally weighted CLEAN images, as well as calibrated visibility function files, are available electronically from the Goddard Geodetic VLBI Group.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/553/A122
- Title:
- Time stability of the ICRF2 axes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/553/A122
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- I assess the astrometric stability of the 295 defining sources of the current best realization of the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS): the second realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF2), constructed and published in 2009 after the analysis of millions of VLBI observations at 2 and 8 GHz between 1979.6 and 2009.2. I also assess the time evolution of the ICRF2 axis stability. I derived coordinate time series of hundreds of quasars monitored by the regular geodetic VLBI program of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS). The axis stability was studied by constructing annual reference frames based on the ICRF2 defining sources. The time variable frame stability was obtained by computing the deformation parameters that lead from one frame to the next. I show that, although the astrometric stability of some of the ICRF2 defining sources has slightly degraded since 2009.2, the ensemble still constitutes a very stable reference frame. The current estimation of the axis stability over 1979.6-2013.1 remains at the same level as the one estimated over 1979.6-2009.2, i.e., on the order of 20uas for each axis.
637. TMGS star positions
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/491/L31
- Title:
- TMGS star positions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/491/L31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of the optical spectroscopy of 58 stars in the Galactic plane at l=27deg, where a prominent excess in the flux distribution and star counts have been observed in several spectral regions, in particular in the Two-Micron Galactic Survey (TMGS) catalog. The sources were selected from the TMGS to have a K magnitude brighter than +5mag and to be within 2deg of the Galactic plane. More than 60% of the spectra correspond to stars of luminosity class I, and a significant proportion of the remainder are very late and fast-evolving giants. This very high concentration of young sources points to the existence of a major star formation region in the Galactic plane, located just inside the assumed origin of the Scutum spiral arm. Such regions can form because of the concentrations of shocked gas where a galactic bar meets a spiral arm, as is observed at the ends of the bars of face-on external galaxies. Thus, the presence of a massive star formation region is very strong supporting evidence for the presence of a bar in our Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/258
- Title:
- 2007.5 to 2010.4 HST astrometry of HD 202206
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/153/258
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor astrometry and previously published radial velocity measures, we explore the exoplanetary system HD202206. Our modeling results in a parallax, {pi}_abs_=21.96+/-0.12 milliseconds of arc, a mass for HD202206B of M_B_=0.089_-0.006_^+0.007M_{Sun}_, and a mass for HD202206c of M_c_=17.9_-1.8_^+2.9^M_Jup_. HD202206 is a nearly face-on G + M binary orbited by a brown dwarf. The system architecture that we determine supports past assertions that stability requires a 5:1 mean motion resonance (we find a period ratio, P_c_/P_B_=4.92+/-0.04) and coplanarity (we find a mutual inclination, {Phi}=6{deg}+/-2{deg}).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/167
- Title:
- Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1986
- Short Name:
- I/167
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The second annual catalog of the Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle contains 3974 stars that were observed at least twice between 21 December 1985 and 31 December 1986. Specifically, it contains 1141 FK5 stars, 971 FK4 supplemental stars, 554 AGK3R stars, 403 OB stars, 421 NPZT stars, and 484 SAO stars. The positions are for the mean epoch of observation referred to the equinox and equator of J2000.0 and based on the FK5 system. The internal error of a single observation for the bright stars is 0.24" and 0.27" in right ascension and declination, respectively. The catalog contains, in addition to the positions, the catalog from which the star is taken and the number in that catalog, the mean epoch and number of observations of each component of the position and of the magnitude, the spectral type, the V magnitude, and the DM and AGK3 numbers. It also contains the residuals between the position in this catalog and that in the source catalog and mean errors for each component of the position and of the magnitude.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/248
- Title:
- Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 90-93
- Short Name:
- I/248
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The sixth annual catalog of the Tokyo PMC is presented for 6649 stars which were observed at least two times in January 1990 through March 1993. The mean positions of the stars observed in the above period are given in the catalog at the corresponding mean epochs of observations of individual stars. The coordinates of the catalog are based on the FK5 system, and referred to the equinox and equator of J2000.0. The mean local deviations of the observed positions from the FK5 catalog positions are constructed for the basic FK5 stars to compare with those of the Tokyo PMC Catalog 89 and preliminary Hipparcos results of H30. The catalog contains the positions of 1180 basic FK5 stars, 322 FK4 Suppl. stars, 3132 AGK3R stars, 141 OB stars, 252 NPZT stars, and 1601 SAO stars observed with the Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle in the 1990 to 1993 periods based on the FK5 system. The positions of the stars are given for the mean epoch of the observations of individual stars referring to the equinox and equator of J2000.0. The values of (O-C)s in the catalog are calculated by using the positions given in the source catalog, and by evaluating those at the mean epoch of observations of each star, with the equinox and equator at the mean epoch. The magnitudes of the stars given in the catalog can be transformed into the V-magnitude of the standard UBV system by the equation : V = V(TPMC) + 0.063(B-V) - 0.045.