- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/pg
- Title:
- Palomar-Green Catalog of UV-Excess Stellar Objects
- Short Name:
- PG
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Palomar-Green Catalog of UV-Excess Stellar Objects provides positions (the original_ra and original_dec parameters) accurate to about 8 arcsec in each coordinate, photographic B-magnitudes accurate to 0.29 mag, spectral types, some cross-references, and photoelectric broad-band, multichannel, and Stroemgren colors when available. Of the 1874 objects in the catalog as published in 1986 (1878 in this version), 1715 comprise a statistically complete sample covering 10714 square degrees from 266 fields taken on the Palomar 18-inch Schmidt telescope. Limiting magnitudes vary from field to field, ranging from 15.49 to 16.67. The overall completeness is estimated to be 84%, but that figure and the relative contributions of magnitude, color, and accidental errors vary depending on the magnitude and color distribution of the spectroscopic subsample. The dominant population in this catalog is that of the hot, hydrogen-atmosphere subdwarfs, the sdB stars, which comprise nearly 40 per cent of the sample. The hot white dwarfs of spectral types DA, DB, and DO account for 21, 2.8, and 1.0 per cent of the sample, respectively, while cooler DC or DZ white dwarfs add another 1.2 per cent. Cataclysmic variables and composite-spectrum binaries account for 5 per cent, although many other spectra dominated by a hot star showed evidence for a cool companion at red wavelengths. Planetary nebulae central stars account for another 0.5 per cent. Extragalactic objects comprise about 9 per cent of the complete sample, with QSOs representing 5.4 per cent. Only 0.3 per cent (6 objects) remain with totally unsatisfactory or unknown spectral classes. (Notice that all of these percentage estimates are based on the published version of this catalog, and that the values in the current online version may be slightly different, as the latter includes a small number of updates and additions). In 2009, an additional data resource was added to this catalog by CDS, namely a file containing more accurate (sub-arcsecond) positions and V magnitudes (the skiff_vmag parameter), and also additional comments (the skiff_comments parameter). This new material has now been included in the HEASARC version of the PG Catalog. A full discussion of this addition can be found at <a href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/II/207A/pg_2009.txt">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/II/207A/pg_2009.txt</a>. This database was initially made available at the HEASARC in June 1998 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/207A">CDS catalog II/207A</a> file catalog.dat which had been last updated on Oct 17 1997. In 2017, the HEASARC re-ingested this CDS catalog as it had been updated several times in the interim, notably in 2009 when an additional file (pg_pos.dat) with precise coordinates and comments provided by Brian Skiff was added. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/pmsucat
- Title:
- Palomar/MSU Nearby Star Survey
- Short Name:
- PMSU
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Palomar/Michigan State University Catalogue contains basic data for 1971 stars confirmed by the authors to be late K or M main-sequence stars with absolute visual magnitudes of 8.0 or fainter taken from Tables 1A of papers I and II and Table 1D of paper I. Note that known degenerates have been excluded from this sample. All but 6 of these these star were selected from the Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Gliese & Jahreiss, "Preliminary Version of the Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars", CNS3), and most (88%) lie within 25 parsecs. This online catalog was created by the HEASARC in July 1999 based on tables obtained from the ADC/CDS data centers. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/pmpulsar
- Title:
- Parkes Multibeam Survey New Pulsar Catalog
- Short Name:
- Parkes
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Parkes Multibeam (PM) Pulsar Survey uses the 20 cm multibeam receiver system and multibeam filter banks, digitizer and data-acquisition system to survey a region within |b| < 5 degrees in the inner Galactic plane for pulsars, many of which will be young and/or short-period. This survey is a factor of 7 times more sensitive to young and distant pulsars than that of Johnston et al. (1992, MNRAS, 255, 401) which detected 100 pulsars. The present source list contains pulsars that have been newly discovered in the course of this survey. The PM Survey is specifically targeted for (i) obscured regions of the Galactic plane, (ii) young pulsars,and (iii) binary pulsars with massive companions. As of August 1999, analysis of about 50% of the total expected data to be collected has resulted in the confirmed detection of over 400 new pulsars (an increase of more than 50% of the known population). Here are some of the features of the PM Survey: <pre> Survey Area: -260 < l < 50 deg , -5 < b < 5 deg Center Frequency: 1374 MHz Bandwidth: 288 MHz (96 channels x 3 MHz per channel x 2 polarizations) Sampling Rate: 0.25 ms x 1 bit per channel Integration Time: 35 min per pointing (13 beams per pointing) Data Storage: DLT tape (about 35 GB per tape) Sensitivity: about 7 times better than previous 400 MHz surveys </pre> This database table was initially created by the HEASARC in December 2001 and revised in March 2002. The contents of the table are based on the file <a href="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/pmsurv/pmpsrs.db">http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/pmsurv/pmpsrs.db</a> on the authors' website. The HEASARC table will be updated on a weekly basis whenever the original table is updated. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ppm
- Title:
- Positions and Proper Motions Catalog
- Short Name:
- PPM
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The PPM database is the Catalog of Positions and Proper Motions. It combines the two catalogs for PPM North and PPM South, the Bright Stars Supplement to PPM, and the 90,000 Stars Supplement to the PPM. The PPM North list gives positions and proper motions of 181731 stars north of -2.5 degrees declination. PPM South gives positions and proper motions of 197179 stars south of about -2.5 degrees declination. The star density of PPM South is slightly higher than that of its northern counterpart and the accuracy of the present-epoch positions is roughly twice that in the north. A number of bright stars are missing from the PPM and PPM South Star Catalogs. The Bright Stars Supplement included here makes the PPM catalogs complete down to V=7.5 mag. For this purpose it adds all missing stars brighter than V=7.6 mag that could be found in published star lists. Their total number is 321. Only 5 of them are brighter than V=3.5 Since its appearance in 1966, the SAO Catalogue has been the primary source for stellar positions and proper motions. Typical values for the rms errors are 1 arcsec in the positions at epoch 1990, and 1.5 arcsec/century in the proper motions. The corresponding figures for the AGK3 Catalog in the northern hemisphere are 0.45 arcsec and 0.9 arcsec/century. Common to both of these catalogues is the fact that proper motions are derived from two observational epochs only, and that positions are nominally in the B1950/FK4 coordinate system. The PPM Star Catalogue (Roeser and Bastian, 1991, Bastian et al., 1993; for a short description see Roeser and Bastian, 1993) effectively replaced these catalogues by providing more precise astrometric data for more stars on the J2000/FK5 coordinate system. Compared to the SAO Catalogue the improvement in precision is about a factor of 3 on the northern and a factor of 6 to 10 on the southern hemisphere. In addition, the number of stars is increased by about 50 percent. Typical values for the rms errors on the northern hemisphere are 0.27 arcsec in the positions at epoch 1990, and 0.42 arcsec/century in the proper motions. On the southern hemisphere PPM is much better, the corresponding figures being 0.11 arcsec and 0.30 arcsec/century. The improvement over the SAO Catalogue was made possible by the advent of new big catalogues of position measurements and by the inclusion of the century-old Astrographic Catalogue (AC) into the derivation of proper motions. The AC contains roughly four million stars that are not included in PPM. For most of them no precise modern-epoch position measurements exist. Thus it is not yet possible to derive proper motions with PPM quality for all AC stars. But among the 4 million there is a subset of some 100,000 CPC-2 stars that are not included in PPM. These stars constitute the 90,000 Stars Supplement to PPM, and can be identified from their PPM Number having a value between 700001 and 789676. This database was updated by the HEASARC in October 1999 based on ADC/CDS catalogs I/146 (PPM - North), I/193 (PPM - South), I/206 (Bright Stars Supplement to PPM), and I/208 (90,000 Stars Supplement to PPM). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ppmxlbmd
- Title:
- PPM-XL Bright M Dwarfs Catalog
- Short Name:
- PPMXLBMD
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- Using the Position and Proper Motion Extended-L (PPMXL) catalog, the authors have used optical and near-infrared color cuts together with a reduced proper motion cut to find bright M dwarfs for future exoplanet transit studies. PPMXL's low proper-motion uncertainties allow them to probe down to smaller proper motions than previous similar studies. The authors have combined unique objects found with this method to that of previous work to produce 8,479 K < 9th magnitude M dwarfs. Low-resolution spectroscopy was obtained of a sample of the objects found using this selection method to gain statistics on their spectral type and physical properties. Results show a spectral-type range of K7 to M4V. This catalog is the most complete collection of K < 9 M dwarfs currently available and is made available herein. The PPMXL catalog (Roeser et al. 2010) represents a combination of the USNO-B1.0 and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) catalogs mapped on to the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF), which allows proper motions to be described in a quasi-absolute manner as opposed to relative. PPMXL now provides low uncertainties for both the proper motion and position for many of the objects within the two catalogs. Typical uncertainties for proper motions are 4 - 10 mas/yr. The NIR JHK magnitudes from 2MASS and the optical BVRI magnitudes from USNO-B1.0 also provide very useful color information about the objects and are used during the sample selection process. In this work, the authors classified 4,054 M dwarfs with magnitudes of K < 9 from the PPMXL catalog. By probing down to lower proper motions, this work has produced 1,193 new bright M dwarf candidates that were not included in previous catalogs. By combining these objects with M dwarfs from Lepine & Gaidos (2011, AJ, 142, 138) the authors obtained a final catalog with 8,479 K < 9 late K and M dwarfs suitable for future exoplanet transit studies. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2015 based on the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/435/2161">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/435/2161</a> file table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
56. Pulsar Catalog
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/pulsar
- Title:
- Pulsar Catalog
- Short Name:
- Taylor
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This database is based on the 1995 May 3 electronic version of the Taylor et al. Pulsar Catalog and contains data on 706 pulsars, i.e., it contains 25% more entries than the version published by Taylor et al. in 1993 ApJS. The HEASARC obtained this electronic version from the Princeton University FTP site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/revisedlhs
- Title:
- Revised Luyten Half-Second (LHS) Catalog
- Short Name:
- LuytenHS
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Revised Luyten Half-Second (LHS) Catalog contains refined coordinates and proper motion data for the high proper motion (HPM) stars listed in the Original Luyten Half-Second (LHS) catalog. The positional uncertainty in the Original LHS catalog is typically >10" and is often >30". The authors of the Revised LHS Catalog used the digital scans of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) I and POSS II plates to derive more accurate positions and proper motions for these objects. Out of the 4470 candidates in the LHS catalog, 4323 objects were manually re-identified in the POSS I and POSS II scans. A small fraction of the stars were not found due to the lack of finder charts and digitized POSS II scans. The uncertainties in the revised positions are typically ~2", but can be as high as ~8" in a few cases, which is a large improvement over the original data. Cross-correlation with the Tycho-2 and Hipparcos catalogs yielded 819 candidates (with red magnitude m_R <~12. For these brighter sources, the position and proper motion data were replaced with the more accurate Tycho/Hipparcos data. In total, there are revised proper motion measurements and coordinates for 4040 stars and revised coordinates for 4330 stars. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2002 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/279">CDS Catalog I/279</a> (the 24-May-2002 version of the file catalog.dat). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ritterrbin
- Title:
- Ritter Binaries Related to CVs Catalog (7.21 Edition)
- Short Name:
- Ritter/Bin
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This HEASARC database table contains information on the so-called "Related Objects" only, as taken from the Catalog of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-ray Binaries, and Related Objects (7th Edition, Release 7.21, March 2014) of Ritter & Kolb. The complete catalog lists coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, stellar parameters of the components, and other characteristic properties of 1166 cataclysmic binaries, 105 low-mass X-ray binaries, and 500 related objects with known or suspected orbital periods. The HEASARC has for simplicity split this catalog into three Browse database tables, one for each class of objects: the present table (RITTERRBIN) containing the related binaries' data, a second one (<a href="/W3Browse/star-catalog/rittercv.html">RITTERCV</a>) containing cataclysmic binaries' data, and a third one (<a href="/W3Browse/star-catalog/ritterlmxb.html">RITTERLMXB</a>) containing the low-mass X-ray binaries' data. The literature published before 1 January 2014 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. Related objects are detached binaries consisting of either a white dwarf or a white dwarf precursor primary and of a low-mass secondary. The secondary may also be a highly evolved star. This table was last updated by the HEASARC in April 2014 based on the pcbdata.dat file from the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/B/cb">CDS Catalog B/cb</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/rittercv
- Title:
- Ritter Cataclysmic Binaries Catalog (7.21 Edition)
- Short Name:
- Ritter/CV
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This HEASARC database table contains information on cataclysmic binaries only, as taken from the Catalog of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-ray Binaries, and Related Objects (7th Edition, Release 7.21, March 2014) of Ritter & Kolb. The complete catalog lists coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, stellar parameters of the components, and other characteristic properties of 1166 cataclysmic binaries, 105 low-mass X-ray binaries, and 500 related objects with known or suspected orbital periods. The HEASARC has for simplicity split this catalog into three Browse database tables, one for each class of objects: the present table (RITTERCV) containing the cataclysmic binaries' data, a second one (<a href="/W3Browse/star-catalog/ritterlmxb.html">RITTERLMXB</a>) containing the low-mass X-ray binaries' data, and a third one (<a href="/W3Browse/star-catalog/ritterrbin.html">RITTERRBIN</a>) containing the related binaries' data. The literature published before 1 January 2014 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. Cataclysmic binaries are semi-detached binaries consisting of a white dwarf (or a white dwarf precursor) primary and a low-mass secondary which is filling its critical Roche lobe. The secondary is not necessarily unevolved, it may even be a highly evolved star, as, for example, in the case of the AM CVn-type stars. This table was last updated by the HEASARC in April 2014 based on the cbdata.dat file from the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/B/cb">CDS Catalog B/cb</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/ritterlmxb
- Title:
- Ritter Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries Catalog (7.21 Edition)
- Short Name:
- Ritter/LMXB
- Date:
- 28 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- This HEASARC database table contains information on low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) only, as taken from the Catalog of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-ray Binaries, and Related Objects (7th Edition, Release 7.21, March 2014) of Ritter & Kolb. The complete catalog lists coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, stellar parameters of the components, and other characteristic properties of 1166 cataclysmic binaries, 105 low-mass X-ray binaries, and 500 related objects with known or suspected orbital periods. The HEASARC has for simplicity split this catalog into three Browse database tables, one for each class of objects: the present table (RITTERLMXB) containing the low-mass X-ray binaries' data, a second one (<a href="/W3Browse/star-catalog/rittercv.html">RITTERCV</a>) containing cataclysmic binaries' data, and a third one (<a href="/W3Browse/star-catalog/rittercv.html">RITTERRBIN</a>) containing the related binaries' data. The literature published before 1 January 2014 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. Low-mass X-ray binaries are semi-detached binaries consisting of either a neutron star or a black hole primary, and a low-mass secondary which is filling its critical Roche lobe. This table was last updated by the HEASARC in April 2014 based on the lmxbdata.dat file from the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/B/cb">CDS Catalog B/cb</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .