SKY2000 Master Catalog, Version 5 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Myers J.R.
  2. Sande C.B.
  3. Miller A.C.
  4. Warren Jr. W.H.
  5. Tracewell D.A.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The SKYMAP Star Catalog System consists of a Master Catalog stellar database and a collection of utility software designed to create and maintain the database and to generate derivative mission star catalogs (run catalogs). It contains an extensive compilation of information on almost 300000 stars brighter than 8.0mag. The original SKYMAP Master Catalog was generated in the early 1970's. Incremental updates and corrections were made over the following years but the first complete revision of the source data occurred with Version 4.0. This revision also produced a unique, consolidated source of astrometric information which can be used by the astronomical community. The derived quantities were removed and wideband and photometric data in the R (red) and I (infrared) systems were added. Version 4 of the SKY2000 Master Catalog was completed in April 2002; it marks the global replacement of the variability identifier and variability data fields. More details can be found in the description file sky2kv4.pdf. The SKY2000 Version 5 Revision 4 Master Catalog differs from Revision 3 in that MK and HD spectral types have been added from the Catalogue of Stellar Spectral Classifications (B. A. Skiff of Lowell Observatory, 2005), which has been assigned source code 50 in this process. 9622 entries now have MK types from this source, while 3976 entries have HD types from this source. SKY2000 V5 R4 also differs globally from preceding MC versions in that the Galactic coordinate computations performed by UPDATE have been increased in accuracy, so that differences from the same quantities from other sources are now typically in the last decimal places carried in the MC. This version supersedes the previous versions 1(V/95), 2(V/102), 3(V/105) and 4(V/109).

Keywords
  1. Astrometry
  2. Astronomical object identification
  3. Surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015yCat.5145....0M
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/V/145
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/145

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=V/145
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=V/145
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=V/145
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/V/145/sky2kv5?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/V/145/sky2kv5?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/V/145/sky2kv5?

History

2015-02-20T08:44:58Z
Resource record created
2015-02-20T08:44:58Z
Created
2018-06-29T10:00:19Z
Updated

Contact

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