- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/lmcclustrs
- Title:
- LMC Clusters Catalog
- Short Name:
- LMC/Cluster
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- A new catalogue of clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud has been constructed from searches of the IIIa-J component of the ESO/SERC Southern Sky Atlas. The catalogue contains coordinate and diameter measurements of 1762 clusters in a 25 deg x 25 deg area of sky centered on the LMC, but excluding the very crowded 3.5 square deg region around the Bar. The distribution of these clusters appears as two superimposed elliptical systems. The higher density inner system extends over about 8 deg; the lower density outer system can be represented by 13 deg X 10 deg disc inclined at 42 deg to the line of sight. There are suggestions of two weak "arms" in the latter. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/lyngaclust
- Title:
- Lynga Open Clusters Catalog
- Short Name:
- LyngaOpenCl
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is a catalog of open cluster data, as compiled by Gosta Lynga, Lund Observatory. The aim of this catalog is to give salient data for all known open star clusters in our galaxy. As far as possible only published data values have been quoted; for some of the parameters, these values have been slected from references which can be obtained from the HEASARC. This data in part results from the merging of the data resulting from a joint project between K. Janes, C. Duke and Lynga, herein refered to as JDL data. The aim of that project was to discuss properties of the open cluster system by using existing data and by taking their accuracy into proper regard. Thus the data were assessed, mostly by Janes, weight assigned and weighted mean values derived of reddenings, turn-off colors and distances. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/messier
- Title:
- Messier Nebulae
- Short Name:
- Messier
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Messier Catalog of bright, extended objects was compiled by the comet-hunter Charles Messier in the 18th century. It comprised a list of 110 objects which are mostly brighter than 10th magnitude and have angular sizes from 1 to 100 arcminutes. M 102 is now generally considered to be spurious, and the object so named was actually M 101. Hence this electronic version of the Messier Catalog contains only 109 objects. The objects in the Messier Catalog are predominantly star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy, with 29 of them being globular clusters, 27 open clusters; the rest are spiral galaxies (27), elliptical galaxies (11), diffuse and planetary nebulae (10), and miscellaneous objects (5). All of the objects in the Messier Catalog are north of -35 degrees declination. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- 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/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/ngc2000
- Title:
- NGC2000.0: Complete New General Catalog and Index Catalog
- Short Name:
- NGC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- NGC 2000.0 is a modern compilation of the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer (1888, 1895, 1908). The new compilation of these classical catalogs is intended to meet the needs of present-day observers by reporting positions at equinox 2000.0 and by incorporating the corrections reported by Dreyer himself and by a host of other astronomers who have worked with the data and compiled lists of errata. The object types given are those known to modern astronomy. This catalog is copyrighted by Sky Publishing Corporation, which has kindly deposited the machine-readble version in the data centers for permanent archiving and dissemination to astronomers for scientific research purposes only. The data should not be used for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of Sky Publishing Corporation. Information on how to contact Sky Publishing is available at <a href="http://www.shopatsky.com/contacts">http://www.shopatsky.com/contacts</a>. This HEASARC table was last updated in September 2022, based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/118">CDS catalog VII/118</a> file ngc2000.dat, in order to correct some truncated description fields. The previous update was in June 2005. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/smcclustrs
- Title:
- SMC&BridgeClustersCatalog
- Short Name:
- SMC/Clust
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This is the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and Inter-Magellanic Cloud ('Bridge') portion of the 'Revised and Extended Catalog of Magellanic System Clusters, Associations, and Emission Nebulae' (Table 2 of Bica and Schmitt 1995). A survey of extended objects in the SMC and Bridge was carried out on the ESO/SERC R and J Sky Survey Atlases and 1188 such objects were identified, including 544 classified as star clusters, 343 as emissionless associations, and 291 as emission nebulae. Only those objects which could be detected on the ESO/SERC Schmidt films as non-stellar (typically larger than 15 arcseconds) are included in this catalog, note. The catalog also includes cross-identifications with previous catalogs, and 284 newly identified objects. Accurate positions, classification, homogeneous sizes, and position angles are provided, as well as information on cluster pairs and hierarchical relations for superimposed objects. This database table was created by the HEASARC in February 1998 based on a computer readable version of the catalog that was obtained from the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/101/41">CDS catalog J/ApJS/101/41</a>. Additional information for the help documentation was obtained from the published version of this catalog (Bica and Schmitt 1995). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
