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We announce the second data release (DR2) of the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC), using 412,116 public images from CTIO-4m+DECam, the KPNO-4m+Mosaic3 and the Bok-2.3m+90Prime. NSC DR2 contains over 3.9 billion unique objects, 68 billion…

A new proper motion catalog is presented, combining the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with second epoch observations in the r band within a portion of the SDSS imaging footprint. The new observations were obtained with the 90prime camera…

An all-sky catalog of 18020 disc-like galaxies is presented. The galaxies are selected from the Extended Source Catalog of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (XSC 2MASS) basing on their 2MASS axial ratio a/b >= 3. The Catalog contains data on…

We describe the astrometric reduction of images obtained with the FORS2/VLT camera in the framework of an astrometric planet search around 20 M/L-transition dwarfs. We present the correction of systematic errors, the achieved astrometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 P. F. Lazorenko , J. Sahlmann , D. Segransan , E. L. Martin , M. Mayor , D. Queloz , S. Udry

The historic plates of the "Carte du Ciel", an international cooperative project launched in 1887, offer valuable first-epoch material for the determination of absolute proper motions. We present the CdC-SF, an astrometric catalogue of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Belen Vicente , Carlos Abad , Francisco Garzon , Terrence M. Girard

We describe technical aspects of an astrometric and photometric survey of the North Celestial Cap (NCC), from the Pole (DEC=90 deg) to DEC=80 deg, in support of the TAUVEX mission. This region, at galactic latitudes from ~ 17 deg to ~ 37…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Evgeny Gorbikov , Noah Brosch , Cristina Afonso

Absolute proper motions for $\sim$ 7.7 million objects were derived based on data from the South Galactic Cap u-band Sky Survey (SCUSS) and astrometric data derived from uncompressed Digitized Sky Surveys that the Space Telescope Science…

Using the USNO CCD Astrograph all-sky Catalog (UCAC2), we measure the mean proper motion of the two Magellanic Clouds. Appropriately selected LMC populations show a proper motion (<\mu RA>, <\mu DEC>) ~ (+0.84,+4.32) that is significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Momany , S. Zaggia

USNO-B1.0 and 2MASS are the most widely used full-sky surveys. However, 2MASS has no proper motions at all, and USNO-B1.0 published only relative, not absolute (i.e. on ICRS) proper motions. We performed a new determination of mean…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Siegfried Roeser , Markus Demleitner , Elena Schilbach

USNO Bright Star Catalog (UBSC) is a new astrometric catalog of 1423 brightest stars covering the entire sky, which is published online. It is nearly complete to $V=3$ mag except for three stellar systems. A combined astrometric solution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Norbert Zacharias , Valeri V. Makarov , Charles T. Finch , Hugh C. Harris , Jeffrey A. Munn , John P. Subasavage

We use data from the U.S. Naval Observatory fourth CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC4) in combination with photometry from the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) to identify stars within 25 pc of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Charlie Finch , Norbert Zacharias , John Subasavage , Todd Henry , Adric Riedel

Catalogue of star positions and B-magnitudes based on UkrVO Joint Digital Archive has been created in 60-degree declination zone of FONAK(FON) observational program as the first attempt to use the commercial scanners for astrometri c…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-18 V. N. Andruk , L. K. Pakuliak , V. V. Golovnya , G. O. Ivanov , O. M. Yizhakevych , Yu. I. Protsyuk , S. V. Shatokhina

We present a catalog of 345,000 stars with proper motions \mu > 20 mas/yr and magnitudes r' <20, drawn from the intersection of the SDSS Data Release One and USNO-B. We first use SDSS quasars to correct the proper motions in each of the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-01 Andrew Gould , Juna A. Kollmeier

The GSC-II is an all-sky database of objects derived from the uncompressed DSS that the STScI has created from the Palomar and UK Schmidt survey plates and made available to the community. Like its predecessor (GSC-I), the GSC-II was…

The 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) will observe over one-million galaxies and extended Galactic sources covering the entire sky at wavelengths between 1 and 2 microns. The survey catalog will have both high completeness and reliability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. H. Jarrett , T. Chester , R. Cutri , S. Schneider , M. Skrutskie , J. P. Huchra

We combine Gaia DR1, PS1, SDSS and 2MASS astrometry to measure proper motions for 350 million sources across three-fourths of the sky down to a magnitude of $m_r\sim20$\,. Using positions of galaxies from PS1, we build a common reference…

We present the third installment of the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion Catalog, SPM3. Absolute proper motions, positions, and photographic B,V photometry are given for roughly 10.7 million objects, primarily stars, down to a magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. M. Girard , D. I. Dinescu , W. F. van Altena , I. Platais , D. G. Monet , C. E. Lopez

Proper motions are computed and collected in a catalog using the Hipparcos positions (epoch 1991.25) and URAT1 positions (epoch 2012.3 to 2014.6). The goal is to obtain a significant improvement on the proper motion accuracy of single stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Julien Frouard , Bryan N. Dorland , Valeri V. Makarov , Norbert Zacharias , Charlie T. Finch

The U.S. Naval Observatory Robotic Astrometric Telescope (URAT) is observing the northern sky since April 2012 for an astrometric survey. Multiple overlaps per year are performed in a single bandpass (680$-$750 nm) using the "redlens" 20 cm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Norbert Zacharias

The UKIDSS Large Area Survey (LAS) began in 2005, with the start of the UKIDSS program as a 7 year effort to survey roughly 4000 deg$^2$ at high galactic latitudes in Y, J, H and K bands. The survey also included a significant quantity of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-08 L. Smith , P. W. Lucas , B. Burningham , H. R. A. Jones , R. L. Smart , A. H. Andrei , S. Catalan , D. Pinfield