Release Date: 23-Mar-2024 Contents of /pub/cats (Public Astronomical Catalogues and Lists) ================================================================================ The subdirectories I, II ... IX contain catalogues for public access. Each of these subdirectories is itself a subdirectory containing individual catalogues. The definition of the categories is: ------------------------------------------------------ I Astrometric Data II Photometric Data III Spectroscopic Data IV Cross-Identifications V Combined Data VI Miscellaneous VII Non-stellar Objects VIII Radio and far-IR data IX High-energy data ------------------------------------------------------ B Catalogues used in data-bases (regularly updated) ------------------------------------------------------ J Published data ordered by Journal in subdirectories Abbr/Volume/First_Page where Abbr takes the values: A+A = Astron. Astrophys. A+AS = Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. AJ = Astron. J. ApJ = Astrophys. J. ApJS = Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. IAUS = IAU Symposium MNRAS = Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. PASP = Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific ------------------------------------------------------ Other files are included in this directory: cdsclient.tar.gz : ==== Version (2.7) === a lightweight set of scripts which can be used to query astronomical catalogues available at CDS from any Unix/Linux platform, and get the result in ascii, FITS, XML ot TSV. Get details from http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/vizier/doc/cdsclient.htx adc.sty: style file required to process LaTeX documents prepared at ADC (Astronomical Data Center, NASA/Greenbelt) cats.ps : a Postscript document describing the standards adopted for the Documentation of Catalogues cats.dvi: same as above in DVI format cats.bib : a list of catalogues available at CDS, in "bibUnix" format cats.lis : a short list of catalogues available at CDS, in printable form cats.all : a full list of catalogues available at CDS cats.tex : a full list of catalogues available at CDS (to be processed by LaTeX) For requests of catalogues which are not publicly available, comments, suggestions, etc ... mail or email to the following addresses: ================================================================================ CDS, Observatoire Astronomique 11, rue de l'Universite 67000 STRASBOURG, France Email: question@simbad.u-strasbg.fr ================================================================================