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We present a catalog of Galactic star clusters, associations and candidates with 10978 entries. This multi-band catalog was constructed over 20 years, starting with visual inspections on the Digital Sky Survey and incremented with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-02 Eduardo Bica , Daniela B. Pavani , Charles J. Bonatto , Eliade F. Lima

Quasars are objects of high interest in extragalactic astrophysics, cosmology, and astrometry. One of their useful qualities is their potential radio loudness. However, the fraction of radio-loud vs. radio-quiet quasars is subject to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-26 Nestor Arsenov , Sandor Frey , András Kovács , Lyuba Slavcheva-Mihova

We are conducting an effort to catalog all sources detected in the digitized POSS-II (DPOSS). This is now becoming an international collaboration including Caltech and the Observatories of Rome and Naples (project CRONA). There are also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. de Carvalho , R. R. Gal , M. A. Pahre , R. Scaramella , G. Longo

The amount of data produced by large observational facilities and space missions has led to the archiving and on-line accessibility of much of this data, available to the entire astronomical community. This allows a much wider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 H. Andernach , R. J. Hanisch , F. Murtagh

The procedure of the construction of a sample of distant ($z>0.3$) radio galaxies using NED, SDSS, and CATS databases for further application in statistical tests is described. The sample is assumed to be cleaned from objects with quasar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 M. L. Khabibullina , O. V. Verkhodanov

We develop a software kit called "2MASS Catalog Server Kit" to easily construct a high-performance database server for the 2MASS Point Source Catalog (includes 470,992,970 objects) and several all-sky catalogs. Users can perform fast radial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Chisato Yamauchi

We present a high quality multiwavelength (from 0.3 to 8.0 micron) catalog of the large and deep area in the GOODS Southern Field covered by the deep near-IR observations obtained with the ESO VLT. The catalog is entirely based on public…

Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS) is a synoptic sky survey uses data streams from 3 wide-field telescopes in Arizona and Australia, covering the total area of ~30,000 deg2, down to the limiting magnitudes ~ 20 - 21 mag per…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-25 S. G. Djorgovski , A. J. Drake , A. A. Mahabal , M. J. Graham , C. Donalek , R. Williams , E. C. Beshore , S. M. Larson , J. Prieto , M. Catelan , E. Christensen , R. H. McNaught

SWEET-Cat (Stars With ExoplanETs Catalogue) was originally introduced in 2013, and since then, the number of confirmed exoplanets has increased significantly. A crucial step for a comprehensive understanding of these new worlds is the…

In preparation for the advent of the Allen Telescope Array, the SETI Institute has the need to greatly expand its former list of ~2000 targets compiled for Project Phoenix, a search for extraterrestrial technological signals. In this paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Margaret C. Turnbull , Jill C. Tarter

The radio spectral index is a powerful probe for classifying cosmic radio sources and understanding the origin of the radio emission. Combining data at 147 MHz and 1.4 GHz from the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS) and the NRAO VLA Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 F. de Gasperin , H. T. Intema , D. A. Frail

We present a catalogue of about 6 million unresolved photometric detections in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data Release classifying them into stars, galaxies and quasars. We use a machine learning classifier trained on a subset of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sheelu Abraham , Ninan Sajeeth Philip , Ajit Kembhavi , Yogesh G Wadadekar , Rita Sinha

URAT1 is an observational, astrometric catalog covering most of the Dec >= -15 deg area and a magnitude range of about R = 3 to 18.5. Accurate positions (typically 10 to 30 mas standard error) are given for over 228 million objects at a…

Data from observations of pulsars made by Murriyang, the CSIRO Parkes 64-metre radio-telescope over the last three decades are more accessible than ever before, largely due to their storage in expansive long-term archives. Containing nearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Lawrence Toomey , George Hobbs , James Dempsey , Shane Majewski , Shi Dai , John Reynolds

We present SpiderCat, a multiwavelength catalog of all publicly known compact binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic field. These systems, colloquially known as "spiders," consist of neutron stars in tight orbits with low-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Manuel Linares

The number of known pulsars has significantly increased over the previous few years. We have searched the literature to find papers announcing the discovery of pulsars or giving improved parameters for them. Data from the papers have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Hobbs , R. Manchester , A. Teoh , M. Hobbs

Chromospherically Active Binaries (CAB) catalogue have been revised and updated. With 203 new identifications, the number of CAB stars is increased to 409. Catalogue is available in electronic format where each system has various number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Eker , N. Filiz Ak , S. Bilir , D. Dogru , M. Tuysuz , E. Soydugan , H. Bakis , B. Ugras , F. Soydugan , A. Erdem , O. Demircan

We have compiled a new and complete catalog of the main properties of the 1509 pulsars for which published information currently exists. The catalog includes all spin-powered pulsars as well as anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 R N Manchester , G B Hobbs , A Teoh , M Hobbs

We present the Data Release 9 Quasar (DR9Q) catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. The catalog includes all BOSS objects that were targeted as quasar candidates during the…

Large digital sky surveys, over a broad range of wavelengths, both from the ground and from space observatories, are becoming a major source of astronomical data. Some examples include the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Digital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. George Djorgovski , Robert J. Brunner