- 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 .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/m31clustrs
- Title:
- M 31 Globular Cluster Candidates Catalog
- Short Name:
- M31/GC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database table contains a list of 288 globular cluster candidates and 132 miscellaneous objects found in a 70 arcminute square field centered on the M 31 (Andromeda) Galaxy. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/globclust
- Title:
- Milky Way Globular Clusters Catalog (December 2010 Version)
- Short Name:
- GC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is the Catalog of Parameters for Milky Way Globular Clusters (December 2010 Version) that was compiled by William E. Harris of McMaster University. This is the first update since 2003 and the biggest single revision since the original version of the catalog published in 1996. The list now contains a total of 157 objects classified as globular clusters. Major upgrades have been made especially to the cluster coordinates, metallicities, and structural profile parameters, and the list of parameters now also includes the central velocity dispersion. This table contains basic parameters on distances, velocities, metallicities, luminosities, colors, and dynamical parameters for over 150 objects that are regarded as globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. Please acknowledge the use of this catalog in any published work you derive from it. The proper reference to the literature is the published paper (Harris, W.E. 1996, AJ, 112, 1487) which briefly describes the setup of the catalog. When you cite it in your text, please use "Harris 1996 (2010 edition)". The author would also greatly appreciate receiving any new information, in published or preprint form, which would help him to keep the list up to date (contact W. E. Harris at harris@physics.mcmaster.ca). A full discussion of the sources used in the creation of this catalog and of the parameters that it contains can be found in the file: <a href="http://physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.ref">http://physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.ref</a>. This table was originally ingested by the HEASARC circa 1995. It was last updated by the HEASARC in February 2014 based on an electronic version (dated December 2010) copied from the file <a href="http://physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.dat">http://physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.dat</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/mwsc
- Title:
- Milky Way Star Clusters Catalog
- Short Name:
- MWSC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Although they are the main constituents of the Galactic disk population, for half of the open clusters in the Milky Way reported in the literature nothing is known except the raw position and an approximate size. The main goal of this study is to determine a full set of uniform spatial, structural, kinematic, and astrophysical parameters for as many known open clusters as possible. On the basis of stellar data from PPMXL and 2MASS, the authors used a dedicated data-processing pipeline to determine kinematic and photometric membership probabilities for stars in a cluster region. For an input list of 3,784 targets from the literature, they confirm that 3,006 are real objects, the vast majority of them are open clusters, but associations and globular clusters are also present. For each confirmed object, the authors determined the exact position of the cluster center, the apparent size, proper motion, distance, color excess, and age. For about 1,500 clusters, these basic astrophysical parameters have been determined for the first time. For the bulk of the clusters the authors also derived the tidal radii. In addition, they estimated average radial velocities for more than 30% of the confirmed clusters. The present sample (called MWSC) reaches both the central parts of the Milky Way and its outer regions. It is almost complete up to 1.8 kpc from the Sun and also covers the neighboring spiral arms. However, for a small subset of the oldest open clusters (ages more than ~ 1 Gyr), the authors found some evidence of incompleteness within about 1 kpc from the Sun. This table contains the list of 3,006 Milky Way stellar clusters (MWSC) found in the 2MAst (2MASS with Astrometry) catalog presented in Paper II of this series (these clusters have source numbers below 4000), together with an additional 139 new open clusters (these clusters have source numbers between 5000 and 6000) found by the authors at high Galactic latitudes (|b_II_| > 18.5 degrees) which were presented in Paper III of the series, and an additional 63 new open clusters (these clusters have source numbers between 4000 and 5000) which were presented in Paper IV of the series. The target list in Paper II from which the 3,006 open clusters was contained was compiled on the basis of present-day lists of open, globular and candidate clusters. The list of new high-latitude open clusters in Paper III was obtained from a target list of 714 density enhancements found using the 2MASS Catalog. The list of new open clusters in Paper IV was obtained from an initial list of 692 compact cluster candidates which were found by the authors by conducting an almost global search of the sky (they excluded the portions of the sky with |b_II_| < 5 degrees) in the PPMXL and the UCAC4 proper-motion catalogs. For confirmed clusters, the authors determined a homogeneous set of astrophysical parameters such as membership, angular radii of the main morphological parts, mean cluster proper motions, distances, reddenings, ages, tidal parameters, and sometimes radial velocities. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2014 based on the list of open clusters given in <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/558/A53">CDS Catalog J/A+A/558/A53</a> files catalog.dat and notes.dat. It was updated in September 2014 with 139 additional star clusters from <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/568/A51">CDS Catalog J/A+A/568/A51</a> files catalog.dat and notes.dat. It was further updated in October 2015 with 63 additional star clusters from <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/581/A39">CDS Catalog J/A+A/581/A39</a> files catalog.dat and notes.dat. Note that this table does not include the information on candidates which turned out not to be open clusters which was also contained in these catalogs. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/m31stars2
- Title:
- MIT/Amsterdam M 31 Survey
- Short Name:
- M31Stars/deep
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The MIT/Amsterdam M 31 Survey, or the Extended Magnier et al. Catalog of Objects in the Field of M 31, is based on deep BVRI CCD photometry that was performed on a 1 square degree region of M 31. The observations were made between September 12 and September 27 1990, using the McGraw-Hill 1.3m telescope at the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT (MDM) observatory at Kitt Peak. The catalogue has typical completeness limits of 20.7 (Bmag), 21.7 (Vmag), 20.2 (Rmag) and 20.5 (Imag), although there is a large region in the inner disk for which the completeness limits are substantially deeper: 22.3 (Bmag), 22.2 (Vmag), 22.2 (Rmag), and 20.9 (Imag). The photometric accuracy is about 2% at Vmag = 19. The final astrometric calibrations take into account the systematic error discovered in the Berkhuijsen et al. (1988, A&AS, 76, 65) catalog by Magnier et al. (1993, A&A, 272, 695). They are in the J2000 system and are eventually tied to the HST Guide Star Catalog. The final photometric calibrations are tied via the NGC 206 region to photometry taken at the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT (MDM) 1.3m in September and October 1993. These are tied to the Landolt (1992, AJ, 104, 340) system of standard stars, and are in the Johnson-Kron-Cousins system (BVRcIc). This version of the MIT/Amsterdam M31 Survey Catalog was created at the HEASARC in March 1999 based on the CDS/ADC Catalogue II/208. The HEASARC revised this version in February 2001. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/m31rbcgc
- Title:
- M 31 Revised Bologna Clusters and Candidates Catalog (Version 5)
- Short Name:
- M31RBCGC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Revised Bologna Catalogue of M 31 globular clusters and candidates (RBC, V.5, August 2012) lists all the confirmed globular clusters (GCs), all the known candidates GCs, and also all the objects that were identified as candidate GCs in the past and were subsequently recognized not to be genuine clusters, each entry being properly classified (GC, candidate GC, foreground star, background galaxy, HII region, etc.). The latter entries are maintained in the catalog to avoid re-discoveries of objects that may look like M 31 GCs and have been already classified as non-GCs. Please take into account the classification flag(s) when you use the RBC. Please acknowledge the use of this catalog. The proper reference is: Galleti S., Federici L., Bellazzini M., Fusi Pecci F., Macrina S. "2MASS NIR photometry for 693 candidate globular clusters in M 31 and the Revised Bologna Catalogue (V.1.0)", Astron.&Astrophys., 2004, 416, 917 (2004A&A...416..917G) This table was created by the HEASARC in November 2014 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/V/143">CDS Catalog V/143</a> file rbc5.dat, Version 5 of the Revised Bologna Catalogue of M 31 globular clusters and candidates. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/openclust
- Title:
- New Optically Visible Open Clusters and Candidates Catalog
- Short Name:
- OpenCluster
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is a new catalog of open clusters in the Galaxy which updates the previous catalogs of Lynga (1987, <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/92">CDS Cat. VII/92</a>, the HEASARC Browse table now called LYNGACLUST) and of Mermilliod (1995, in Information and On-Line Data in Astronomy, ed. D. Egret & M. A. Albrecht (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 127) (included in the WEBDA database, <a href="http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/">http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/</a>). New objects and new data, in particular, data on kinematics (proper motions) that were not present in the old catalogs, have been included. Virtually all of the clusters presently known are included, which represents a large increase in the number of objects (almost 1,000) relative to the Lynga Catalog. In total, 99.7% of the objects have estimates of their apparent diameters, and 74.5% have distance, E(B-V) and age determinations. Concerning the data on kinematics, 54.7% have their mean proper motions listed, 25% their mean radial velocities, and 24.2% have both information simultaneously. Acknowledgments: Extensive use has been made by the authors of the SIMBAD and WEBDA databases. This project is supported by FAPESP (grant number 03/12813-4) and CAPES (CAPES-GRICES grant number 040/2008). This database table was originally created by the HEASARC in September 2002 based on the CDS version of the catalog. In March 2006, the HEASARC updated the table to use instead the following file obtained from the authors' web site: <a href="http://www.astro.iag.usp.br/ocdb/file/clusters.txt">http://www.astro.iag.usp.br/ocdb/file/clusters.txt</a>. In August 2017, the HEASARC reverted to using the CDS version of this catalog, available as the file clusters.dat at <a href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/B/ocl/">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/B/ocl/</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/nltt
- Title:
- NLTTCatalog&FirstSupplement
- Short Name:
- NLTT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This catalog (Luyten 1979, 1980) is a collection of stars on more than 800 Palomar Proper Motion Survey plates found to have relative annual proper motions exceeding 0.18 arcsec. The motions have been determined by Luyten and his coworkers by either hand blinking and measuring or with the automated- computerized scanner and measuring machine built by Control Data Corporation and located at the University of Minnesota. The new catalog replaces the LTT Catalogues (Luyten 1957, 1961, 1962), wherein stars in the Bruce Proper Motion Survey discovered to have motions exceeding 0.2 arcsec had been compiled. For further information on the NLTT Catalogue itself, including discussions of positional errors, estimation of magnitudes, star designations used in the catalog, completeness, and accuracy of the measured motions, the introduction to the published NLTT (see Volume I) should be consulted. The First Supplement to the NLTT Catalogue (Luyten and Hughes 1980) is the result of continued plate analysis and measurements during printing of the NLTT. The Supplement contains data for 398 stars having motions larger than 0.179 arcsec annually. Duplicate entries were removed from the HEASARC implementation of this catalog in June 2019. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/oriysoir
- Title:
- Orion Nebula YSO IR Properties
- Short Name:
- ORIYSOIR
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The origin and evolution of the X-ray emission in very young stellar objects (YSOs) are not yet well understood because it is very hard to observe YSOs in the protostellar phase. Using COUP data, the authors studied in their reference paper the X-ray properties of stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) in different evolutionary classes: luminosities, hydrogen column densities N<sub>H</sub>, effective plasma temperatures, and time variability were compared to understand if the interaction between the circumstellar material and the central object can influence the X-ray emission. They have assembled the deepest and most complete photometric catalog of objects in the ONC region from the UV to 8 microns (µm) using data from the HST Treasury Program; deep and almost simultaneous UBVI and JHK images taken, respectively, with WFI at ESO 2.2m and ISPI at CTIO 4m telescopes; and Spitzer IRAC imaging. They selected high-probability candidate Class 0-I protostars, a sample of "bona fide" Class II stars, and a set of Class III stars with IR emission consistent with normal photospheres. Their principal result is that Class 0-Ia objects are significantly less luminous in X-rays, in both the total and hard bands, than the more evolved Class II stars with mass larger than 0.5M_{sun}_; the latter show X-ray luminosities similar to those of Class 0-Ib stars. This table contains the JHK and IRAC data, as well as the protostar classifications, for 398 ONC YSOs. This online catalog was created by the HEASARC in October 2010 based on the machine-readable versions of Tables 2, 3, 4 and 5 from the reference paper which were obtained from the CDS (their catalog J/ApJ/677/401). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/dncvobcat
- Title:
- Outburst Catalog of Dwarf Novae-type and Other Cataclysmic Variables
- Short Name:
- DNCVOBCAT
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This outburst catalog contains a wide variety of observational properties for 722 dwarf nova-type (DN) cataclysmic variables (CVs) and 309 CVs of other types from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS). In particular, it includes the apparent outburst and quiescent V-band magnitudes, duty cycles, limits on the recurrence time, upper- and lower-limits on the distance and absolute quiescent magnitudes, color information, orbital parameters, and X-ray counterparts. These properties were determined by means of a classification script presented in the reference paper. The DNs in the catalog show a correlation between the outburst duty cycle and the orbital period (and outburst recurrence time), as well as between the quiescent absolute magnitude and the orbital period (and duty cycle). This is the largest sample of dwarf nova properties collected to date (2016). Besides serving as a useful reference for individual systems and a means of selecting objects for targeted studies, it will prove valuable for statistical studies that aim to shed light on the formation and evolution of cataclysmic variables. The CRTS identifies transients in the data from the Catalina Sky Survey (Larson et al. 1998, BAAS, 30, 1037; 2003, BAAS, 35, 982), a photometric survey that searches for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids and Near Earth Objects. Three sub-surveys constitute the Catalina Sky Survey, namely the original CSS (Catalina Schmidt Survey), the MLS (Mt Lemmon Survey) based in Arizona, and the SSS (Siding Spring Survey) in Australia, which ended on 2014 July 5. The field of view and typical limiting magnitude for each survey (at ~30 s integrations) are 8.2 degrees and V~19.5 mag for the CSS, 1.1 degrees and V~21.5 mag for the MLS, and 4 degrees and V~19 mag for the SSS. Together, these surveys cover 30, 000 deg<sup>2</sup> between -70 and +70 degrees Declination (see Drake et al. 2014, MNRAS, 441, 1186 for more details). The entire zone within 15 Degrees of the Galactic Plane is avoided due to overcrowding, as are the Magellanic Clouds. The properties of the cataclysmic variables in this catalog are derived from the long-term optical light curves from the CRTS, as well as magnitudes, fluxes and orbital parameters from the SDSS, 2MASS, UKIDSS, ROSAT, Chandra, XMM and WISE catalogs, and from the Catalog of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and Related Objects (RKCat: Ritter and Kolb 2003, A&A, 404, 301, available at the HEASARC as the RITTERCV, RITTERLMXB and RITTERRBIN tables). This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2017 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/456/4441">CDS catalog J/MNRAS/456/4441</a> file catalog.dat. . This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .