Differences between UCAC3 and PPMXL in positions and proper
motions, on
an all-sky one-degree grid. At each gridpoint we give the
differences X(PPMXL)- X(UCAC3) averaged over all stars in
a sqrt(2)/2-degrees environment around the gridpoint given. The
corrections given here should bring UCAC3 based astrometry to the ICRS.
Differences between USNO-B and PPMXL in positions and proper
motions, on
an all-sky one-degree grid. At each gridpoint we give the
differences X(PPMXL)- X(USNO-B1.0) averaged over all stars in
a sqrt(2)/2-degrees environment around the gridpoint given. The
corrections given here should bring USNO-B based astrometry to the ICRS.
This is a deep optical mosaic of the Fornax cluster’s core, covering
1.6 square degrees. The data were acquired with ESO/MPG 2.2m/WFI,
using a transparent filter that nearly equals the no-filter throughput
and thus provides a high signal-to-noise ratio. Based on an
approximate conversion to V-band magnitudes, the unbinned and binned
mosaics (0.24 and 0.71 arcsec/pixel) reach a median depth of 26.6 and
27.8 mag/sq.arcsec, respectively.
Digitized First Byurakan Survey (DFBS) Spectra Query Service
Short Name:
DFBS SSAP
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:13
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
The First Byurakan Survey (FBS) is the largest and the first systematic
objective prism survey of the extragalactic sky. It covers 17,000 sq.deg.
in the Northern sky together with a high galactic latitudes region in the
Southern sky. The FBS has been carried out by B.E. Markarian, V.A.
Lipovetski and J.A. Stepanian in 1965-1980 with the Byurakan Observatory
102/132/213 cm (40"/52"/84") Schmidt telescope using 1.5 deg. prism. Each
FBS plate contains low-dispersion spectra of some 15,000-20,000 objects;
the whole survey consists of about 20,000,000 objects.
Estimated distances to 1.33 billion stars in Gaia DR2
Short Name:
gdr2dist scs
Date:
27 Dec 2024 08:31:05
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This catalogue provides distances estimates (and uncertainties therein)
for 1.33 billion stars over the whole sky brighter than about G=20.7.
These have been estimated using the parallaxes (and their uncertainties)
from Gaia DR2. A Bayesian procedure was used involving a prior
with a single parameter L(l,b), which varies smoothly with Galactic
longitude and latitude according to a Galaxy model. The posterior is
summarized with a point estimate (usually the mode) and a confidence
interval (usually the 68% highest density interval). The estimation
procedure is described in detail in the `accompanying paper`_,
which also analyses the catalogue content.
.. _accompanying paper: http://www.mpia.de/homes/calj/gdr2_distances.html
Spectra from the Flash and Heros Echelle spectrographs developed at
Landessternwarte Heidelberg and mounted at La Silla and various other
observatories. The data mostly contains spectra of OB stars. Heros was
the name of the instrument after Flash got a second channel in 1995.