The ACT Reference Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Urban S.E.
  2. Corbin T.E.
  3. Wycoff G.L.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The U.S. Naval Observatory has completed the compilation of the ACT Reference Catalog, containing 988,758 stars covering the entire sky. The motivation behind the ACT was to provide accurate proper motions for the majority of the stars in the Tycho Catalogue (ESA SP-1200). To do this, positions from new reductions of the Astrographic Catalogue (AC 2000) were combined with those of Tycho. The large epoch span between the two catalogs yields proper motions about an order of magnitude more accurate than those published in the Tycho Catalogue. The astrometric data contained in the ACT Reference Catalog include positions, proper motions and error estimates. These are on the Hipparcos System (J2000.0) for epoch J2000.0. Photometric data (B and V) from Tycho are included. Additionally, cross references to the Tycho, AC 2000, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD), Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD), Cape Durchmusterung (CPD), Henry Draper (HD) and Hipparcos Catalogues are given.

Keywords
  1. astrometry
  2. proper-motions
  3. astrographic-catalogs
  4. catalogs
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. surveys
  7. astronomical-object-identification
Bibliographic source
U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington D.C. (1997)
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/I/246
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/246

Access

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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=I/246
IVOA Table Access TAP
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IVOA Cone Search SCS
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https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/I/246/act?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/I/246/act?

History

1998-06-08T10:17:11Z
Resource record created
1998-06-08T10:17:11Z
Created
1998-06-08T10:17:19Z
Updated

Contact

Name
CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
E-Mail
cds-question@unistra.fr