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====> Contents of /pub/cats (Public Astronomical Catalogues and Lists)
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The subdirectories I, II ... IX contain catalogues for public access
ordered by the following categories:
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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 (far-UV, X, gamma)
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J Published data ordered by Journal (A&A, ApJ, etc)
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aliases provide links to catalogues from acronym
bincats contains some very large catalogues in binary format
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cats.* contain the list of the existing catalogues in various formats.
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drwxr-xr-x 11 cats archive 4096 May 1 2010 [Up]
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 1203 Sep 28 2005 .message
drwxr-xr-x 295 cats archive 4096 Apr 19 10:23 A&A
drwxr-xr-x 106 cats archive 4096 Apr 22 2011 A&AS
drwxr-xr-x 295 cats archive 4096 Apr 19 10:23 A+A
drwxr-xr-x 106 cats archive 4096 Apr 22 2011 A+AS
drwxr-xr-x 47 cats archive 4096 May 13 15:03 B
drwxr-xr-x 16 cats archive 4096 May 12 05:28 J
drwxr-xr-x 295 cats archive 4096 Apr 19 10:23 J_A+A
drwxr-xr-x 106 cats archive 4096 Apr 22 2011 J_A+AS
drwxr-xr-x 70 cats archive 4096 Mar 2 11:14 J_AJ
drwxr-xr-x 20 cats archive 4096 Jan 19 10:22 J_AN
drwxr-xr-x 21 cats archive 4096 Jan 27 2011 J_AZh
drwxr-xr-x 20 cats archive 4096 Apr 19 14:12 J_AcA
drwxr-xr-x 323 cats archive 4096 Apr 16 14:09 J_ApJ
drwxr-xr-x 152 cats archive 4096 Mar 21 14:18 J_ApJS
drwxr-xr-x 17 cats archive 4096 May 6 2011 J_BaltA
drwxr-xr-x 185 cats archive 4096 Apr 23 20:55 J_MNRAS
drwxr-xr-x 17 cats archive 4096 Apr 21 19:04 J_PASJ
drwxr-xr-x 33 cats archive 4096 Mar 8 2011 J_PASP
drwxr-xr-x 21 cats archive 4096 Feb 20 13:47 J_PAZh
drwxr-xr-x 50 cats archive 4096 May 8 22:48 J_other
drwxrwxr-x 2 cds archive 4096 May 17 08:20 META
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 2586 May 12 05:27 ReadMe
drwxr-xr-x 275 cats archive 4096 Apr 27 14:28 I
drwxr-xr-x 288 cats archive 4096 May 14 09:22 II
drwxr-xr-x 232 cats archive 4096 Apr 29 11:46 III
drwxr-xr-x 31 cats archive 4096 May 13 14:50 IV
drwxr-xr-x 124 cats archive 4096 May 14 17:19 V
drwxr-xr-x 119 cats archive 4096 May 14 17:19 VI
drwxr-xr-x 233 cats archive 4096 Mar 12 22:25 VII
drwxr-xr-x 91 cats archive 4096 May 6 09:15 VIII
drwxr-xr-x 35 cats archive 4096 Apr 8 10:52 IX
drwxr-xr-x 275 cats archive 4096 Apr 27 14:28 1
drwxr-xr-x 288 cats archive 4096 May 14 09:22 2
drwxr-xr-x 232 cats archive 4096 Apr 29 11:46 3
drwxr-xr-x 31 cats archive 4096 May 13 14:50 4
drwxr-xr-x 124 cats archive 4096 May 14 17:19 5
drwxr-xr-x 119 cats archive 4096 May 14 17:19 6
drwxr-xr-x 233 cats archive 4096 Mar 12 22:25 7
drwxr-xr-x 91 cats archive 4096 May 6 09:15 8
drwxr-xr-x 35 cats archive 4096 Apr 8 10:52 9
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 566 May 28 2008 --README.html
drwxr-xr-x 93 afoev archive 4096 May 9 09:26 afoev
drwxr-xr-x 28 cats archive 4096 May 12 05:28 aliases
drwxr-xr-x 7 cats archive 4096 May 6 09:15 bincats
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 88177 May 12 05:28 cats.ads.gz [Uncompressed]
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 7761577 May 12 05:28 cats.all
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 6161444 May 12 05:26 cats.bib
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 5945544 May 12 05:28 cats.dvi
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 2486968 May 12 05:27 cats.lis
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 53731 May 12 05:28 cats.new
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 3943413 May 12 05:28 cats.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 2568038 May 12 05:28 cats.ps.gz [Uncompressed]
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 1692301 May 12 05:27 cats.tar.gz [Uncompressed]
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 6111883 May 12 05:28 cats.tex
drwxr-xr-x 275 cats archive 4096 Apr 27 14:28 i
drwxr-xr-x 288 cats archive 4096 May 14 09:22 ii
drwxr-xr-x 232 cats archive 4096 Apr 29 11:46 iii
drwxr-xr-x 31 cats archive 4096 May 13 14:50 iv
drwxr-xr-x 35 cats archive 4096 Apr 8 10:52 ix
drwxr-xr-x 18 cats archive 4096 Nov 17 17:16 more
-rw-r--r-- 1 cats archive 16177 May 12 05:26 obsolete
drwxr-xr-x 124 cats archive 4096 May 14 17:19 v
drwxr-xr-x 119 cats archive 4096 May 14 17:19 vi
drwxr-xr-x 233 cats archive 4096 Mar 12 22:25 vii
drwxr-xr-x 91 cats archive 4096 May 6 09:15 viii
Beginning of ReadMe :
Release Date: 12-May-2012
Contents of /pub/cats (Public Astronomical Catalogues and Lists)
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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:
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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
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B Catalogues used in data-bases (regularly updated)
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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
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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:
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CDS, Observatoire Astronomique
11, rue de l'Universite
67000 STRASBOURG, France
Email:
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