The following document lists the file abbrev.txt
from catalogue B/gcvs.
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THE CATALOGS ABBREVIATIONS
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BAY Bayer - Greek and Roman letters in the Bayer Atlas.
FLM Flamsteed - Baily, F. 1835, "Association of J.Flamsteed, British
Catalogue of Stars".
BS/HR Hoffleit, D. (with the collaboration of Jaschek, C.) 1982, "The
Bright Stars Catalogue" (New Haven: Yale University Observatory)
(HR numbers are adopted from Pickering, E. C., 1908, "Harvard
Revised Photometry", Ann. Astron. Obs. Harvard College 50).
HD Cannon, A. J. and Pickering, E. C. 1918-1924, "The Henry Draper
Catalogue", Ann. Astron. Obs. Harvard College 91-99.
BD Argelander, F. 1859-62, "Bonner Sternverzeichniss. Erste bis
dritte Sektion", Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte
der Koeniglichen Rhein. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet zu Bonn,
Bande 3-5. Revision of Argelander's first edition: Schoenfeld,
E. 1886, "Bonner Sternverzeichniss", Vierte Sektion,
Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte der Koeniglichen
Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet zu Bonn 8, Part IV
(Bonn: Adolph Marcus); Kuestner, F. 1903, "Bonner Durchmusterung
des Noerdlichen Himmels, zweite berichtigte Auflage", Bonn
Universitaets-Sternwarte.
CoD/CD Thome, J. M. 1892-1932, "Cordoba Durchmusterung, Resultados del
Observatorio Nacional Argentino" 16 (1892, Part I: -22 to -32
Degrees), 17 (1894, Part II: -32 to -42 Degrees), 18 (1900, Part
III: -42 to -52 Degrees), 21 (Part I) (1914, Part IV, -52 to -62
Degrees), 21 (Part II) (1932, Part V: -61 to -90 Degrees).
CPD Gill, D. and Kapteyn, J. C. 1895-1900, "Cape Photographic
Durchmusterung", Ann. Cape Obs. 3 (1895, Part I: zones -18 to
-37); 4 (1897, Part II: zones -38 to -52); 5 (1900, Part III:
zones -53 to -89).
GSC Lasker, B. M., et al. 1990, "The Guide Star Catalog. I.
Astronomical Foundations and Image Processing", A. J. 99, 2019;
The Space Telescope Science Institute 1992, "The Guide Star
Catalog Version 1.1 (An all-sky astrometric and photometric
catalog to support the operation of the Hubble Space Telescope)"
on two CD-ROMs.
HIP European Space Agency 1997, "The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues",
SP-1200, Vols. 1-17.
SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Staff 1966, "Star Catalog.
Positions and Proper Motions of 258,997 Stars for the Epoch and
Equinox of 1950.0", Publ. of the Smithsonian Institution of
Washington, D.C., No. 4652.
ADS Aitken, R. G. 1932, "New General Catalogue of Double Stars within
120 Degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of
Washington, Publ. no. 417 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie
Institution of Washington).
IDS Jefers, H. M., Van den Bos, W. H., Greeby, F. M. 1963, "Index
Catalogue of Visual Double Stars", Publ. Lick Obs. 21.
BDS Burnham, S. W. 1906, "A General Catalogue of Double Stars within
120 Degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of
Washington, Publ. No. 5 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution
of Washington).
CCDM Dommanget, J., Nys, O. 1994, "The Catalogue of Components of
Double and Multiple Stars", Comm. Obs. R. de Belg., Serie A
No.115 (catalog CDS I/211).
IRC Neugebauer, G. and Leighton, R. B. 1969, "Two-Micron Sky Survey, A
Preliminary Catalog", NASA SP-3047 (Washington, D.C.: National
Aeronautics and Space Adminstration).
AFGL/ Walker, R. G., Price, S. D. 1975, "Air Force Cambridge Research
RAFGL/ Laboratory Infrared Sky Survey", U.S. Air Force Report No.
CRL AFCRL-TR-0373; Price, S. D., Walker, R. G. 1976
"The AFGL Four Color Infrared Sky Survey", AFGL-TR-0208, and 1977
"The AFGL Four Color Infrared Sky Survey Supplement",
AFGL-TR-0160.
IRAS The Joint IRAS Science Working Group 1988, "Infrared Astronomical
Satellite (IRAS) catalogs and atlases" 2-6, NASA RP-1190
(Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space
Adminstration).
MWC Merrill, P. W., Sunford, R. F., Burwell, C. G. 1933-1949, "Mount
Wilson Catalogue of stars of classes B and A whose spectra have
bright hydrogen lines", P.A.S.P. 45, 306; P.A.S.P 54, 107; Ap.
J. 78, 87; Ap. J. 98, 153; Ap. J. 110, 387.
AS Merrill, P. W., Burwell, C. G. 1950, "Additional stars whose
spectra have a bright H Alpha line", Ap. J. 112, 72.
LkHa Herbig, G. H., et al. 1954-1974, Lists of emission-line stars.
MHa Mount Wilson H Alpha-emission line stars, see references for MWC and
AS.
He-3 Henize, K. G. 1976, "Observations of Southern Emission-Line Stars",
Ap.J. Suppl. 30, 491.
HRC/HBC Herbig, G. H., Robbin Bell, K. 1988, "Third Catalog of
Emission-Line Stars of the Orion Population", Lick Obs. Bull
No.1111.
Wray Wray, J. D. 1966, "A study of H Alpha-emission objects in the
Southern Milky Way", Table XV-XIX, Univ. Microfilm Inc., Ann
Arbor, Michigan.
LS Hardorp, J., et al. 1959-1971, "Luminous Stars in the Northern
Milky Way" I-VI, Hamburger Sternwarte - Warner and Swasey Obs.,
Hamburg-Bergedorf.
LSS Stephenson, C. B., Sanduleak, N. 1971, "Luminous Stars in the
Southern Milky Way", Publ. Warner and Swasey Obs. 1, No.1.
CCS Stephenson, C. B. 1973, "A General Catalogue of Cool Carbon
Stars", Publ. Warner and Swasey Obs. 1, No.4.
Hen Unpublished list of C-stars by K.G.Henize (given in CCS).
CSS Stephenson, C. B. 1976, "A General Catalogue of S Stars", Publ.
Warner and Swasey Obs. 2, No.2.
CSS2 Stephenson, C. B. 1984, "General Catalog of S Stars, second
edition", Publ. Warner and Swasey Obs. 3, No. 1.
WR Van der Hucht, K. A., et al. 1981, "The Sixth Catalogue of
Galactic Wolf-Rayer Stars", Space Sci. Rev. 28, 227.
PG Green, R. F., et al. 1986, "Cataclysmic Variable Candidates from
the Palomar Green Survey", Ap. J. Suppl. 61, 305.
WD McCook, G. P., Sion, E. M. 1987, "A Catalogue of Spectroscopically
Identified White Dwarfs", Ap. J. Suppl. 65, 603.
G Giclas, H. L., et al. 1971-1979, "Lowell Proper Motion Survey"
(red dwarfs), Lowell Obs. Bull., Flagstaff, Arizona.
GD Giclas, H. L., et al. 1980, "Lowell Proper Motion Survey" (white
dwarfs), Lowell Obs. Bull. 8, 157.
EgGr/EG Eggen, O. J., Greenstein, J. L. 1965-1977, "Spectra, Colors,
Luminosities and Motions of the White Dwarfs", Ap. J. 141, 83;
Ap. J. 142, 925; Ap. J. 150, 927; Ap. J. 158, 281; Ap. J.
162, L55; Ap. J. 189, L131; Ap. J. 196, L117; Ap. J. 207,
L119; Ap. J. 218, L21.
Gl Gliese, W. 1969, "Catalogue of Nearby Stars", Veroeff. Astron.
Rechen-Inst. Heidelberg Nr.22; Gliese, W., Jahreiss, H. 1979,
"Nearby star data published 1969-1978", Astron. Astrophys.
Suppl. 38, 423.
He-2 Henize, K. J. 1964, An extended list of southern planetary
nebulae; see PK Nomenclature.
PK Perek, L., Kohoutek, L. 1967, "Catalogue of Galactic Planetary
Nebulae", Academia Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy
of Sciences.
NGC Dreyer, J. L. E. 1888, "New General Catalogue of Nebulae and
Clusters of Stars", Mem. Roy. Astron. Soc. 49, Part I
(reprinted 1962, London: Royal Astronomical Society); Sulentic,
J. W. and Tifft, W. G. 1973, "The Revised New General Catalogue
of Nonstellar Astronomical Objects" (Tucson: The University of
Arizona Press).
PPM Roeser S., Bastian U.et al.,1988, "Position and Proper Motion- North"
Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 74, 449; 1991, Astron. Astrophys.
Suppl. Ser. 87, 159;
"Positions and Proper Motions - South", 1992, Publ. Astr. Rechen
-Institut, Heidelberg, Spektrum Akademischer Vrlag, 1;
"Bright Stars Supplement to PPM", 1993, Astronomisches Rechen-
Institut, Heidelberg;
"The 90000 stars Supplement to the PPM Catalogue", 1994, Astron.
Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 105, 301.
LHS Luyten, W. J. 1976, "A Catalog of Stars with Proper Motion
exceeding 0".5 annually", Publ. of Univ. of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Luyten, W. J., Albers, H. 1979, "An
Atlas of Identification Chart for LHS Stars", Publ. of Univ. of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
LTT Luyten, W. J. 1957, "Catalogue of 9867 Stars in the Southern
Hemisphere with Proper Motion exceeding 0".2 annually"; Luyten,
W. J. 1961, "Catalogue of 7127 Stars in the Northern Hemisphere
with Proper Motion exceeding 0".2 annually", The Lund Press,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
LFT Luyten, W. J. 1955, "A Catalog of 1849 Stars with Proper Motion
exceeding 0.5" annually", The Lund Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
L Luyten, W. J. 1941, "Proper Motion Survey with the fourty-eight
inch Schmidt Telescope", XXI, XXV, XXIX, Publ. of Univ. of
Minnesota.
LP Luyten, W. J. 1963-1981, "Proper Motion Survey with the 48 inch
Schmidt Telescope", Publ. of Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
fasc. 1-57.
LDS Luyten, W. J. 1943, "Catalogue of 832 Double Stars with Common
Proper Motion in the Southern Hemisphere", Publ. Astron. Obs.
Univ. Minnesota 3, No. 3, 33.
BPM Luyten, W. J. 1963, "Bruce Proper Motion Survey. The general
catalogue. Vol. I, II", Publ. of Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Ross Ross, F. E. 1925-1939, "New Proper Motion Stars", eleven
successive lists, A. J. Vol. 36 to 48.
Vys Vyssotsky, A. N., et al. 1943-1958, "Dwarf M Stars Found
Spectrophotometrically", A. J. 61, 201; A. J. 63, 211; Ap. J.
97, 381; Ap. J. 104, 234; Ap. J. 116, 117.
Wolf Wolf, M. 1919, "Katalog von 1053 starken bewegten Fixsternen",
Veroeff. Sternwarte zu Heidelberg 7, No. 10, 195; and numerous
lists in Astron. Nachr. 209 to 236, 1919 to 1929.
OH OH sources designated by their galactic co-ordinates.
HII Hertzsprung, E. 1947, "Catalogue de 3259 Etoiles dans les
Pleiades", Ann. Sterrewacht Leiden 19, part 1A.
Par Parenago, P. P. 1954, "A List of Star in the Region of the Orion
Nebula", Trudy Sternberg Astron. Inst. Vol. 25.
AN Preliminary designations of variables announced at the
"Astronomische Nachrichten".
HV Preliminary designations of variables discovered at Harvard
Observatory.
NSV Kholopov, P. N. (ed.) 1982, "New Catalogue of Suspected Variable
Stars", M.: Nauka.
Prag Prager, R. 1934, "Katalog von 2428 als veraenderlich
angezeigten Sternen". Ergaenzungsh. Astron. Nachr., Bd. 9,
Nr. 3; Prager, R. 1937, "Katalog von 3401 als veraenderlich
angezeigten Sternen". Ergaenzungsh. Astron. Nachr., Bd. 10, Nr. 1.
S Preliminary designations of variables discovered at Sonneberg
Observatory.
SVS Soviet variable stars (preliminary designations of Soviet-
-discovered variables).
VV Preliminary designations of variables discovered at Vatican.
VES Lists of the Vatican H Alpha-emission line stars.
Wr Preliminary designations of variable stars discovered by R. Weber.
Zi Zinner, E. 1929, "Verzeichnis von 2191 verdaechtigen Sternen".
Ergaenzungsh. Astron. Nachr., Bd. 8, Nr. 1.
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