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591. Pulkovo Catalogue of Reference Stars around GRS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/326
Title:
Pulkovo Catalogue of Reference Stars around GRS
Short Name:
I/326
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Pulkovo catalogue of reference stars inside 78 fields around galactic radio stars (Pul GRS) of northern sky from H.G. Walter's list (1990A&AS...86..357W) was created. The coordinates of 12495 stars was obtained from the photographic plates of Pulkovo Normal Astrograph (NA, 33/346), which was photographed in 1994-1999 years. Size of worked fields (radius about 20-40 angular seconds) was determined from the resolved problem and having technical resources: modern dimensions of CCD-detector. Precise astronometric coordinates of stars were intending for optical control beyond the positions of radio sources (GRS) by means of CCD-observation. The galactic radio stars can be the frames at the definition of connection between the existed ground and cosmic astronometric reference coordinate sets. Coordinate calculation was realization with used reference stars from catalogue Tycho-2 (ICRF, J2000.0). Error of a unit of weight from reduction coordinates was resulted nearly 0.12"-0.27" (at a number of reference stars were from 12 to 50). Internal precision of catalogue was obtained from 0.02 to 0.20 arcseconds at the both coordinates.
592. Pulkovo catalogue of 58483 stars (Pul-3)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/290
Title:
Pulkovo catalogue of 58483 stars (Pul-3)
Short Name:
I/290
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A catalogue of positions and proper motions of 58483 stars (Pul-3) has been constructed at the Pulkovo observatory. The Pul-3 is based on the results of measurements of the photographic plates ((x,y)-data) with galaxies (Deutsch's plan). The observations were made with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph (F=3467mm, D=330mm) during the periods from 1935 till 1960 (the first epoch) and from 1969 till 1986 (the second epoch). The radius of working field was 50 arcmin for all plates. The exposure times were 1 hour. All plates were taken near the meridian. The measurements of the plates were made at the Pulkovo observatory in 1970-s and in 1980-s with ASCORECORD measuring machine. Photographic magnitudes of these stars have been determined at the Pulkovo observatory. The Pulkovo plates contain stars mainly 12-16.5 magnitudes in 146 field in declination zone from -5 to +85 degrees. The maximal density of stars in the Pulkovo plates is 500 stars per square degree. The Tycho-2 catalogue (Cat. <I/259>) has been used as a reference catalogue for astrometric reductions of the photographic plates. The great stars density of the Tycho-2 provides 40-65 reference stars in working field of the Pulkovo plates. Only approximate equatorial coordinates of the optical centers of all plates had been known in initial stage of construction of the Pul-3 catalogue and thus recalculation of ones has been done. A six-parameter plate model has been used for the astrometric reduction of the plates. The residuals of the tangential coordinates of reference stars have been analysed to investigate residual systematic errors. The coma parameters have been determined and coma-dependent systematic errors have been excluded. The magnitude-dependent systematic errors and color-dependent ones were investigated. The most significant corrections for magnitude equation have been obtained for stars brighter than 9 magnitude and fainter than 14 magnitude. The most significant color corrections have been obtained in equatorial zone for declinations of stars. The corrected coordinates of all stars have been determined. On the whole, recalculation of the plates optical centers and taking into account of all revealed systematic errors provide improvement of the accuracy of coordinates of stars on 64mas and 51mas for right ascension and declination correspondingly. The new proper motions have been determined for all stars. The mean position has been calculated at the mean epoch of observations of each star using it proper motion. The mean epoch of the Pul-3 is 1963.25. The internal positional accuracy of the Pul-3 catalogue at the mean epoch of observations is 80mas. The internal accuracy of the proper motions is 5mas/yr. Comparisons of the Pul-3 with Tycho-2 and ARIHIP have been done. The Pul-3 external positional accuracy relative to Tycho-2 is 150mas at the mean epoch of the Pulovo plates. The Pul-3 catalogue successfully represents the Tycho-2 system for more than 50000 stars which are fainter than 12 magnitude in 146 fields. The stars from the Pul-3 catalogue may be used as reference stars for reductions of the positional CCD-observations of the extragalactic radio sources and small bodies of the Solar system. The 40-years difference between Pul-3 observational epoch and modern epoch will allow to determine high precision proper motions of the faint stars of the Pul-3 catalogue (about 2mas/yr-3mas/yr). Proper motions of stars from Pul-3 catalogue may be used for stellar kinematics investigations. There are two data files for user's convenience: - the file pul3.dat represents the Pul-3 catalogue; - the file centers.dat contains the equatorial coordinates of centers of the Pulkovo fields (RA, DE).
593. Pulkovo SMP Photographic Catalogue
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/321
Title:
Pulkovo SMP Photographic Catalogue
Short Name:
I/321
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The results of new reduction of 1545 photographic observations of 14 selected asteroids' obtained with Normal Astrograph of Pulkovo observatory from 1948 to 1990 years presented. Photographic plates, stored in observatory's archive, was digitized using consumer flatbed scanner with special designed technique. The accuracy of measured photoplates was performed. The UCAC3 was used as reference catalog. The analysis of instrumental systematic effects, revealing in common distortion and magnitude equation, was performed and taken into account. The equatorial coordinates of 1378 single observations of selected asteroids was obtained and was made their comparison with results of reduction of this material obtained earlier. 1475 positions of stars with large proper motions from LSPM catalog was measured among background objects.
594. Quasar-galaxy associations
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/78/675
Title:
Quasar-galaxy associations
Short Name:
J/AZh/78/675
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A new catalog of 8382 close quasar-galaxy pairs is presented. The catalog was composed using published catalogued quasars and active galactic nuclei containing 11358 objects, as well as the LEDA catalog of galaxies, which contains on the order of 100000 objects.
595. Radial velocities in 14 rich clusters
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/95/284
Title:
Radial velocities in 14 rich clusters
Short Name:
J/AJ/95/284
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Heliocentric radial velocities accurate to <~50km/s are given for 1267 galaxies in the fields of 14 rich clusters from the Dressler (1980, Cat. <VII/174>) catalog (instead of 1268 velocities in 15 clusters as indicated in the title).
596. Radial Velocities of Galaxies
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/99
Title:
Radial Velocities of Galaxies
Short Name:
VII/99
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This catalog lists coordinates, names, and radial velocities for 8250 galaxies scattered over the whole sky. Both optical and radio measures are included. The individual values are given as published, with a reference to each, but no unpublished data are included. An attempt was made to obtain the most accurate coordinates for each object rather than relying on the source papers. In addition to the positions and heliocentric velocities, the catalog contains a name of the galaxy, whether the observation is made by radio or optically, the mean error of the velocity, a correction for the galactic motion of the Sun, and comments. This electronic version is a slightly improved version compared to the published one, and contains more names. References and notes are not included, and the user must refer to the printed version to get them.
597. Radial Velocities of the local universe
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/102/57
Title:
Radial Velocities of the local universe
Short Name:
J/A+AS/102/57
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This paper is the second one in a series dedicated to the study of the kinematics of the local universe. It gives 361 new optical and radio redshifts measured at ESO, OHP and Nancay Observatories.
598. Radio-optical reference frame link
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/325
Title:
Radio-optical reference frame link
Short Name:
I/325
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Between 1997 and 2004 several observing runs were conducted mainly with the CTIO 0.9m to image ICRF counterparts (mostly QSOs) in order to determine accurate optical positions. Contemporary to these deep CCD images the same fields were observed with the USNO astrograph in the same bandpass. These provide accurate positions on the Hipparcos/Tycho-2 system for stars in the 10 to 16 magnitude range used as reference stars for the deep CCD imaging data. Here we present final optical position results of 413 sources based on astrograph data reductions using UCAC2 and UCAC4 type reference stars. These optical positions are compared to radio VLBI positions. The current optical system is not perfectly aligned to the ICRF radio system with rigid body rotation angles of 3 to 5 mas (3{sigma}) found between them for all 3 axes. Furthermore, statistically, the optical-radio position differences are found to exceed the total, combined, known errors in the observations. Systematic errors in the optical reference stars as well as physical offsets between the centers of optical and radio emissions are both identified as likely causes. A detrimental, astrophysical, random noise (DARN) component is postulated to be on about the 10mas level. If confirmed by future observations, this could severely limit the Gaia to ICRF reference frame alignment accuracy to an error of about 0.5mas per coordinate axis with the current number of sources envisioned to provide the link. A list of 36 ICRF sources without the detection of an optical counterpart to a limiting magnitude of about R=22 is provided as well.
599. Radio source selection for the ICRF
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/493/317
Title:
Radio source selection for the ICRF
Short Name:
J/A+A/493/317
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The most accurate realization of a quasi inertial reference frame, the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF), is made of 212 defining extragalactic radio sources whose coordinates are determined using VLBI observations. Recent studies demonstrated however that using other sets of sources could improve the frame stability. This study examines a simple radio source selection scheme to define celestial reference frame axes more stable than the ones as currently defined by the ICRF. After having derived source coordinate time series from 26 years of VLBI observations, we select the most suitable sources on the basis of their positional variability (rms and slope), and observational history. We determine the axis stability of the frame defined by the selection, as well as its suitability for global geodetic VLBI analyses, i.e., determination of Earth orientation parameters and source and station coordinates.
600. RASS: clusters of galaxies around SGP
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/140/239
Title:
RASS: clusters of galaxies around SGP
Short Name:
J/ApJS/140/239
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A field of 1.013sr in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS), centered on the south Galactic pole (SGP), has been searched in a systematic, objective manner for clusters of galaxies. The procedure relied on a correlation of the X-ray positions and properties of ROSAT sources in the field with the distribution of galaxies in the COSMOS digitized database, which was obtained from scanning the plates of the UK Schmidt IIIa-J optical survey of the southern sky. The study used the second ROSAT survey database (RASS-2) and included several optical observing campaigns to measure cluster redshifts. The search, which is a precursor to the larger REFLEX survey encompassing the whole southern sky, reached the detection limits of both the RASS and the COSMOS data and yielded a catalog of 186 clusters in which the lowest flux is 1.5x10-12ergs/cm^2^/s in the 0.1-2.4keV band. Of these 157 have measured redshifts. Using a flux limit of 3.0x10-12ergs/cm^2^/s a complete subset of 112 clusters was obtained, of which 110 have measured redshifts. The spatial distribution of the X-ray clusters out to a redshift of 0.15 shows an extension of the Local Supercluster to the Pisces-Cetus supercluster (z<0.07), and an orthogonal structure at higher redshift (0.07<z<0.15). This result is consistent with large-scale structure suggested by optical surveys.

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