List of astronomical catalogues
An astronomical catalogue is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery. Astronomical catalogs are usually the result of an astronomical survey of some kind.
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0–9
- 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0[1]
- 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the Ariel V satellite[2]
- 1C — First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
- 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey[1][3]
- 1FGL, 2FGL[4] — Lists of gamma-ray sources from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- 1RXH — ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations
- 1RXS — ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue, ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog
- 1SWASP — SuperWASP
- 2A — see 1A
- 2C — Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
- 2E — The Einstein Observatory Soft X-ray Source List
- 2MASS — Two Micron All Sky Survey
- 2MASP — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Prototype
- 2MASSI — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Incremental release
- 2MASSW — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Working database
- 2MUCD — Ultracool Dwarfs from the 2MASS Catalog
- 2MASX — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Extended source catalogue
- 3A — see 1A
- 3C (and 3CR) — Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (and revised)
- 4C — Fourth Cambridge Survey of celestial radio sources
- 5C — Fifth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources
- 6C — Sixth Cambridge Survey of radio sources
- 7C — Seventh Cambridge Survey
- 8C — Eighth Cambridge Survey
- 8pc — 8 parsec listing, all stars within 8 parsec
- 9C — Ninth Cambridge survey at 15GHz
A
- Abell — Abell catalogue
- AC — Astrographic Catalogue
- ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue
- AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
- ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars[5]
- APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine
- Arp — Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
- ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001)
B
- B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae
- BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
- BAY — Uranometria (Bayer designation)
- BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
- BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
- BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue
- Be — Berkeley open cluster list (104 items)
- BEN — Jack Bennett Catalog
- BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)
- BRI — Bj, R, I survey
C
- C — Caldwell catalogue
- CCDM — Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars
- CCO — Catalogue of Cometary Orbits
- CCS — General Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars
- CCS2 — General Catalog of S Stars, second edition
- CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
- CDIMP — Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets
- CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes[6]
- CGO — Catalogue of Galactic O Stars[7]
- CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars
- CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations
- CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
- Col — Collinder catalog
- CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue
- CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue
- CPC — Cape Photographic Catalogue[8]
- CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- CSI — Catalog of Stellar Identifications[9]
- CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables
- CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars
D
- DA — Dominion Observatory List A[10]
- DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds [11]
- DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey
- DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation
- DM — Durchmusterung
- BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
- CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
- CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- DO — Dearborn Observatory
- DoDz - Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili open clusters catalogue (11 items)
- Dolidze - Dolidze clusters list (57 items)
- DR - Downes and Rinehart microwave sources
E
- EC — Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey
- EGGR — Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star
- EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets
- ESO — European Southern Observatory Catalog
F
- FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue
- FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue
- FK5 — Fifth Fundamental Catalogue
- FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica (Flamsteed designation)
- FSC — Faint Source Catalogue
G
- G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas)
- GD — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas dwarf)
- GR* — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas red star)
- HG — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas Hyades)
- GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
- GC (Boss) — Boss general catalogue of 33342 stars
- GCRV — General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities[12]
- GCTP — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes
- GCVS — General Catalog of Variable Stars
- Gl / GJ — Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue
- GOS — Galactic O Star Catalogue[13]
- GOSSS — Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey[13]
- GSC — Guide Star Catalog
- GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II
- GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog
- GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd
- Gum - Gum catalog of emission nebulae
H
- HD — Henry Draper Catalogue
- HCG — Hickson Compact Group
- HDE — Henry Draper Extension
- HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey
- Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
- HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue
- HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue
- HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey
- HR — Bright Star Catalogue (Harvard Revised Catalogue)
I
- IC — Index Catalogue
- IC I — Index Catalogue I
- IC II — Index Catalogue II
- IDS — Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars
- IGR — Integral Gamma-Ray source
- IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite
- IRS — International Reference Star
J
- J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations (see [3] for an article about it)
- JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.
K
- K2 - K2 (Kepler extended mission) catalog
- Kepler — Kepler catalog
- KIC — Kepler Input Catalog
- KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman
- KOI — Kepler Object of Interest
- KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object
L
- L / BPM — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)
- Lac — Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky (Lacaille)
- Lac I — Nebulae
- Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters
- Lac III — Nebulous Stars
- LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae
- LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae
- LDS — Luyten Double Star catalogue
- LEDA — Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
- LFT — Luyten Five-Tenths catalogue
- LHS — Luyten Half-Second catalogue
- LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey
- LPM — Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue
- LS — either of two "Luminous Stars" catalogues; see LSN and LSS, below
- LSN — Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way
- LSPM — LSPM catalog - Lépine-Shara Proper Motion catalog
- LSR — Lepine-Shara-Rich catalogue
- LSS — Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way
- LTT — Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue
M
- M — Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters (Messier object)
- MACHO — MACHO Project lensing events (Massive Compact Halo Object)
- MACHO-LMC — MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
- MACHO-SML — MACHO Project Small Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
- MAXI — Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image
- McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog
- MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies
- MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford[14]
- Mel - Melotte Catalogue of Deep Sky Objects
- MPC — Minor Planet Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets
- MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill - Catalog of Radio Sources
- MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, not in SIMBAD yet
N
- N30 — Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30[15]
- NGC — New General Catalogue
- NHICAT — Northern HIPASS Catalog
- NLTT — New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue
- NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) [4]
- NStars — Nearby Stars Database
- NSV — New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars
O
- NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) [5]
- OEC — Open Exoplanet Catalogue [6]
- OGLE — Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
- OSC — Open Supernova Catalog [7]
- OSS — Ohio Sky Survey
- OTC — Open TDE Catalog [8]
P
- PGC — Principal Galaxies Catalogue
- PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue[16]
- PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek)
- PLX — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes and Supplement (Jenkins, Yale University)
- PMC — Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog[17]
- PN — See PNG[18]
- PNG — Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae[19]
- PPM — Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogues
- PTFO — Palomar Transient Factory
Q
R
- RAFGL - Revised Air Force Geophysical Laboratory (four color infrared sky survey)
- RC — Reference Catalogue
- RC2 — Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition
- RC3 — Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition
- RCW — A catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way
- RECONS — Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
- RNGC — Revised New General Catalogue
- Ross — Ross Catalogue of New Proper Motion Stars
- ROT — Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars[20]
- RSA — Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue
- RST — Catalogue of southern double stars (Rossiter)
- RX — ROSAT observations
S
- SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago[21]
- SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
- SCM — Schwarz, Corradi, Melnick catalogue.[22][23]
- SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS
- SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- SDSSp — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, provisory
- 1SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 1st release
- 2SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
- 3SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
- Sh — Sharpless catalog (Sh 1 (1953) & Sh 2(1959))
- SIMP — Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre
- SIPS — Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey
- SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars
- SPF3 — Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue
- SPOCS — Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars
- SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog
- SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
- SSTc2d — Spitzer Space Telescope c2d Legacy Source
- STF — Struve the Father double star
- Stock — Stock open clusters (Stock 1 and 2 in,[24] Stock 3 to 23 in,[25] Stock 24 in [26])
T
- TAC — Twin Astrograph Catalog
- TD1 — Catalogue of stellar UV fluxes (TD1 satellite)
- TIC — Tycho Input Catalog
- TrES — Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
- TVLM — Tinney's Very Low Mass Catalogue
- TYC — Tycho Catalogue
- TYC2 — Tycho-2 Catalogue
- Trumpler — Robert Julius Trumpler's open cluster list, published in Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters
U
- UBV — Photoelectric Catalogue, magnitude and color of stars in UBV (Blanco et al. 1968)
- UBV M — UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue (Mermilliod 1987)
- UCAC — USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC1, UCAC2 and UCAC3)
- UGC — Uppsala General Catalogue
- USNO — US Naval Observatory
- uvby98 — uvbyβ photoelectric photometric catalogue, by B. Hauck, M. Mermilliod, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 129, 431-433 (1998)
V
- vB — Van Biesbroeck's star catalog, variant, "VB"
- VCC — Virgo Cluster Catalog
- VdB — Van den Bergh (catalogue of reflection nebulae)
W
- W - Radiosource (Westerhout)
- W20 — Washington 20 Catalog
- WASP — Wide Angle Search for Planets survey
- WASP0-TR — Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit
- WDS — Washington Double Star Catalog
- WISE — Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
- WISEP — ?
- WNC — Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars
- Wo — Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue
- Wolf — Catalogue of High Proper Motion Stars (Wolf)
- WR — Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars
X
- XBS — XMM-Newton, Bright Source
- XBSS — XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey
- XEST — XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular
- XTE — X-ray Timing Explorer
Y
Z
- Z — Fritz Zwicky, Catalogue of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies
See also
- List of astronomy acronyms
- List of common astronomy symbols
- Glossary of astronomy
- Modern constellations
Notes and references
- ^ a b See p. 20, X-ray sources in SIMBAD, J. M. Hameury, C. Motch, and M. Pakull, Bull. Inf. Centre Données Stellaires 47, pp. 19–20, Bibcode:1995BICDS..47...19H.
- ^ p. 19, X-ray sources in SIMBAD.
- ^ The Einstein Slew Survey, Martin Elvis, David Plummer, Jonathan Schachter, and G. Fabbiano, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 80, #1 (May 1992), pp. 257–303, Bibcode:1992ApJS...80..257E, doi:10.1086/191665.
- ^ See the Fermi Science Support Center at NASA, or directly the paper: Pat Nolan et al. (the Fermi LAT Collaboration) "Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog", Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 199, 31 (2012) doi:10.1088/0067-0049/199/2/31
- ^ Reed, B.C., Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 115, 271-276 (1998)
- ^ Celescope Catalog of Ultraviolet Stellar Observations. Magnetic Tape Version, R. J. Davis, W. A. Deutschman, K. L. Haramundanis, SAO Special Report #350 (1973), Bibcode:1973SAOSR.350....1D.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Cape Photographic Catalog 1950.0 (CPC) (Jackson+ 1954-1968), database, Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
- ^ See Microfiche Edition of CSI, F. Ochsenbein, M. Bischoff, and D. Egret, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 43 (February 1981), pp. 259–264, Bibcode:1981A&AS...43..259O, and S.I.M.B.A.D. Story: A Description of the Data Base of the Strasbourg Stellar Data Center, D. Egret, Bull. d'Inf. Cent. Données Stellaires 24 (March 1983), pp. 109–123, Bibcode:1983BICDS..24..109E.
- ^ J.A. Galt, J.E.D. Kennedy, Survey of radio sources observed in the continuum near 1420 MHz, declinations -5 to +70, Astron. J., 73, 135-151 (1968)
- ^ A catalogue of southern dark clouds, Hartley M., Manchester R.N., Smith R.M., Tritton S.B., Goss W.M., Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 63, 27 (1986), 1986A&AS...63...27H
- ^ General catalogue of stellar radial velocities, Ralph Elmer Wilson, Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1953, Bibcode:1953GCRV..C......0W.
- ^ a b [2]
- ^ W.W. Morgan, A.D. Code, A.E. Whitford, Studies in galactic structure. II. Luminosity classification for 1270 blue giants stars. Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 2, 41-74 (1955)
- ^ H. R. Morgan, Astron. Papers Amer. Ephemeris 13, Part III (1952). CDS ID I/80.
- ^ Faint Blue Stars in the Region near the South Galactic Pole, G. Haro and W. J. Luyten, Boletín de los Observatorios de Tonantzintla y Tacubaya 3 (1962), pp. 37–117, Bibcode:1962BOTT....3...37H; CDS ID III/74.
- ^ CDS IDs I/186, I/167, I/187, I/188, I/198, and I/248.
- ^ http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/nebula-catalog/plnebulae.html
- ^ CDS IDs V/84
- ^ Catalogue of rotational velocities of the stars, Akira Uesugi and Ichiro Fukuda, Contributions from the Institute of Astrophysics and Kwasan Observatory, University of Kyoto, Kyoto: University, Kwasan Observatory, Institute of Astrophysics, 1970, Bibcode:1970crvs.book.....U.
- ^ F. Noel, Second astrolabe catalogue of Santiago, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 106, 441-450 (1994)
- ^ http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?SCM
- ^ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992A%26AS...96...23S
- ^ Stock, J (1956). "Magnitudes and Colors for Stars in Two New Galactic Clusters". Astrophysical Journal. 123: 258–265. Bibcode:1956ApJ...123..258S. doi:10.1086/146158.
- ^ Alter, G., J. Ruprecht, V. Vanysek. 1958. Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. Prague: Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
- ^ Alter, G., B. Balazs, and J. Ruprecht. 1970. Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiado