The command bib handles the bibliography from 1969 to the present day created from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. The following example presents a typical interactive session; it corresponds also to the interrogation started from the main menu.
> bib
The first request searches the 1988 bibliography for references concerning the lithium, the second one searches the 1987 bibliography for the same topics, and the third one explores the bibliography of 1987 again, but for references about the Coma Ber cluster.
This interrogation allows you to handle only one year and one subject at a time, which is limiting. Therefore, several options have been introduced to improve the efficiency. The option "-eq" permits to select one year and up to three different subjects simultaneously while the options "-i -lt -gt" allow to work within two limiting years. They also accept up to three keywords.
> bib -i 84 88 Hyades Pleiades lithium
display all references concerning the
problem of lithium abundances in the Hyades and the Pleiades clusters
published from 1984 to 1988.
> bib -eq 86 752 lithium displays the references relating to the lithium abundance in NGC 752 published in the year 1986.
> bib -gt 86 752 lithium display the references published in 1986 and later
> bib -lt 75 Tr16 display the references published between 1969 and 1975 for Trumpler 16
> bib -n Claria -eq 88 list the references published in 1988 by Clariá.
> bib -k display the keywords which may be used. Cluster names are not listed in this file, but you can include all NGC and IC numbers as keywords. Generally "NGC" and IC" are not necessary. The names of anon clusters are spelled as in the anon directory, with the difference that the first character is upper case and there is no left padding with zeros.
> bib -km cluster display a list of the keywords which contains the string "cluster" (many keywords are composite).
> bib -ki stellar list all keywords beginning with the word "stellar".
> bib -ke mass list all keywords ending with "mass".
> bib -t 93 count the number of references for the year 1993
> bib -c 93 give access to the keyword list of the references listed by the previous search. This command should therefore be issued after a successful search only