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II/139B ==OBSOLETE version of Catalogue==
05-Nov-1998: (by Francois Ochsenbein) See II/214A
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Beginning of ReadMe :II/139B General Catalog of Variable Stars, 4th Ed. (GCVS4) (Kholopov+ 1988)
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General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4th Edition, Volumes I-III
Kholopov, P.N., Samus', N.N., Frolov, M.S., Goranskij, V.P.,
Gorynya, N.A., Kireeva, N.N., Kukarkina, N.P., Kurochkin, N.E.,
Medvedeva, G.I., Perova, N.B., and Shugarov, S. Yu.
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, variable
Description:
This data set is the machine-readable version of the fourth edition of
the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Kholopov et al. 1985-1988).
The machine version contains the same data as in the first three
volumes of the printed catalog, but only the data tables without the
textual material (introduction, bibliography, remarks) are included.
Modifications to the format of the machine version have been made at
the Astronomical Data Center in order to effect a completely
homogeneous record structure suitable for full machine processing and
sorting.
The fourth edition of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars
supersedes the third edition (Kukarkin et al. 1969-1970), three
supplements (Kukarkin et al. 1971, 1974, 1976) containing data for
5401 new variable stars and improved data for many earlier designated
variables, and five namelists (62-66) published in the Information
Bulletin of Variable Stars (Kukarkin et al. 1976; Kholopov et al.
1978, 1979, 1981a, 1981b), which included only cross identifications
for 2619 new variables. This new edition contains data for 28484
individual objects discovered and named by 1982 and located mainly in
the Milky Way galaxy. These data are contained in the first three
published volumes. The fourth volume of the fourth edition, published
in 1990, contains a table of all variables ordered by right ascension
and declination (B1950), a table of variables listed by variability
type, and an extensive series of cross-identification tables to
alternate designations (see II/172). The fifth and final volume will
contain data for all presently known variables in external galaxies
(including the Magellanic Clouds), extragalactic supernovae, and
optically variable quasistellar objects and galactic nuclei
(see II/205).
Data contained in the catalog include star identifier, equatorial
position (B1950), annual precession, galactic coordinates, type of
variability, maximum and minimum magnitudes, epoch of maximum, period,
and spectral type.
Since extensive modifications have been made to the record structure
of the machine version, users are encouraged to carefully study the
brief descriptions given in the document.
The list of errors published by Durlevich et al. (1994) has been
incorporated in this version