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                       THE CATALOGS ABBREVIATIONS

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BAY    |Bayer - Greek and Roman letters in the Bayer Atlas.

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FLM    |Flamsteed - Baily, F. 1835, "Association of J.Flamsteed, British

       |Catalogue of Stars".

       |

BS/HR  |Hoffleit, D. (with the collaboration of Jaschek, C.) 1982, "The

       |Bright Stars Catalogue" (New Haven:  Yale University Observatory)

       |(HR numbers are adopted from Pickering, E. C., 1908, "Harvard

       |Revised Photometry", Ann.  Astron.  Obs.  Harvard College 50).

       |

HD     |Cannon, A. J. and Pickering, E. C. 1918-1924, "The Henry Draper

       |Catalogue", Ann. Astron. Obs. Harvard College 91-99.

       |

BD     |Argelander, F. 1859-62, "Bonner Sternverzeichniss. Erste bis

       |dritte Sektion", Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte

       |der Koeniglichen Rhein.  Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet zu Bonn,

       |Bande 3-5.  Revision of Argelander's first edition:  Schoenfeld,

       |E. 1886, "Bonner Sternverzeichniss", Vierte Sektion,

       |Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte der Koeniglichen

       |Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet zu Bonn 8, Part IV

       |(Bonn:  Adolph Marcus); Kuestner, F. 1903, "Bonner Durchmusterung

       |des Noerdlichen Himmels, zweite berichtigte Auflage", Bonn

       |Universitaets-Sternwarte.

       |

CoD/CD |Thome, J. M. 1892-1932, "Cordoba Durchmusterung, Resultados del

       |Observatorio Nacional Argentino" 16 (1892, Part I:  -22 to -32

       |Degrees), 17 (1894, Part II:  -32 to -42 Degrees), 18 (1900, Part

       |III:  -42 to -52 Degrees), 21 (Part I) (1914, Part IV, -52 to -62

       |Degrees), 21 (Part II) (1932, Part V:  -61 to -90 Degrees).

       |

CPD    |Gill, D. and Kapteyn, J. C. 1895-1900, "Cape Photographic

       |Durchmusterung", Ann.  Cape Obs. 3 (1895, Part I:  zones -18 to

       |-37); 4 (1897, Part II:  zones -38 to -52); 5 (1900, Part III:

       |zones -53 to -89).

       |

GSC    |Lasker, B. M., et al. 1990, "The Guide Star Catalog. I.

       |Astronomical Foundations and Image Processing", A. J. 99, 2019;

       |The Space Telescope Science Institute 1992, "The Guide Star

       |Catalog Version 1.1 (An all-sky astrometric and photometric

       |catalog to support the operation of the Hubble Space Telescope)"

       |on two CD-ROMs.

       |

HIP    |European Space Agency 1997, "The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues",

       |SP-1200, Vols. 1-17.

       |

SAO    |Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Staff 1966, "Star Catalog.

       |Positions and Proper Motions of 258,997 Stars for the Epoch and

       |Equinox of 1950.0", Publ. of the Smithsonian Institution of

       |Washington, D.C., No. 4652.

       |

ADS    |Aitken, R. G. 1932, "New General Catalogue of Double Stars within

       |120 Degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of

       |Washington, Publ. no. 417 (Washington, D.C.:  Carnegie

       |Institution of Washington).

       |

IDS    |Jefers, H. M., Van den Bos, W. H., Greeby, F. M. 1963, "Index

       |Catalogue of Visual Double Stars", Publ. Lick Obs. 21.

       |

BDS    |Burnham, S. W. 1906, "A General Catalogue of Double Stars within

       |120 Degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of

       |Washington, Publ.  No. 5 (Washington, D.C.:  Carnegie Institution

       |of Washington).

       |

CCDM   |Dommanget, J., Nys, O. 1994, "The Catalogue of Components of

       |Double and Multiple Stars", Comm.  Obs.  R. de Belg., Serie A

       |No.115 (catalog CDS I/211).

       |

IRC    |Neugebauer, G. and Leighton, R. B. 1969, "Two-Micron Sky Survey, A

       |Preliminary Catalog", NASA SP-3047 (Washington, D.C.:  National

       |Aeronautics and Space Adminstration).

       |

AFGL/  |Walker, R. G., Price, S. D. 1975, "Air Force Cambridge Research

RAFGL/ |Laboratory Infrared Sky Survey", U.S.  Air Force Report No.

CRL    |AFCRL-TR-0373; Price, S. D., Walker, R. G. 1976

       |"The AFGL Four Color Infrared Sky Survey", AFGL-TR-0208, and 1977

       |"The AFGL Four Color Infrared Sky Survey Supplement",

       |AFGL-TR-0160.

       |

IRAS   |The Joint IRAS Science Working Group 1988, "Infrared Astronomical

       |Satellite (IRAS) catalogs and atlases" 2-6, NASA RP-1190

       |(Washington, D.C.:  National Aeronautics and Space

       |Adminstration).

       |

MWC    |Merrill, P. W., Sunford, R. F., Burwell, C. G. 1933-1949, "Mount

       |Wilson Catalogue of stars of classes B and A whose spectra have

       |bright hydrogen lines", P.A.S.P. 45, 306; P.A.S.P 54, 107; Ap.

       |J. 78, 87; Ap.  J. 98, 153; Ap.  J. 110, 387.

       |

AS     |Merrill, P. W., Burwell, C. G. 1950, "Additional stars whose

       |spectra have a bright H Alpha line", Ap.  J. 112, 72.

       |

LkHa   |Herbig, G. H., et al. 1954-1974, Lists of emission-line stars.

       |

MHa    |Mount Wilson H Alpha-emission line stars, see references for MWC and

       |AS.

       |

He-3   |Henize, K. G. 1976, "Observations of Southern Emission-Line Stars",

       |Ap.J. Suppl. 30, 491.

       |

HRC/HBC|Herbig, G. H., Robbin Bell, K. 1988, "Third Catalog of

       |Emission-Line Stars of the Orion Population", Lick Obs.  Bull

       |No.1111.

       |

Wray   |Wray, J. D. 1966, "A study of H Alpha-emission objects in the

       |Southern Milky Way", Table XV-XIX, Univ.  Microfilm Inc., Ann

       |Arbor, Michigan.

       |

LS     |Hardorp, J., et al. 1959-1971, "Luminous Stars in the Northern

       |Milky Way" I-VI, Hamburger Sternwarte - Warner and Swasey Obs.,

       |Hamburg-Bergedorf.

       |

LSS    |Stephenson, C. B., Sanduleak, N. 1971, "Luminous Stars in the

       |Southern Milky Way", Publ. Warner and Swasey Obs. 1, No.1.

       |

CCS    |Stephenson, C. B. 1973, "A General Catalogue of Cool Carbon

       |Stars", Publ.  Warner and Swasey Obs. 1, No.4.

       |

Hen    |Unpublished list of C-stars by K.G.Henize (given in CCS).

       |

CSS    |Stephenson, C. B. 1976, "A General Catalogue of S Stars", Publ.

       |Warner and Swasey Obs. 2, No.2.

       |

CSS2   |Stephenson, C. B. 1984, "General Catalog of S Stars, second

       |edition", Publ. Warner and Swasey Obs. 3, No. 1.

       |

WR     |Van der Hucht, K. A., et al. 1981, "The Sixth Catalogue of

       |Galactic Wolf-Rayer Stars", Space Sci.  Rev. 28, 227.

       |

PG     |Green, R. F., et al. 1986, "Cataclysmic Variable Candidates from

       |the Palomar Green Survey", Ap.  J. Suppl. 61, 305.

       |

WD     |McCook, G. P., Sion, E. M. 1987, "A Catalogue of Spectroscopically

       |Identified White Dwarfs", Ap. J. Suppl. 65, 603.

       |

G      |Giclas, H. L., et al. 1971-1979, "Lowell Proper Motion Survey"

       |(red dwarfs), Lowell Obs.  Bull., Flagstaff, Arizona.

       |

GD     |Giclas, H. L., et al. 1980, "Lowell Proper Motion Survey" (white

       |dwarfs), Lowell Obs. Bull. 8, 157.

       |

EgGr/EG|Eggen, O. J., Greenstein, J. L. 1965-1977, "Spectra, Colors,

       |Luminosities and Motions of the White Dwarfs", Ap.  J. 141, 83;

       |Ap.  J. 142, 925; Ap.  J. 150, 927; Ap.  J. 158, 281; Ap.  J.

       |162, L55; Ap.  J. 189, L131; Ap.  J. 196, L117; Ap.  J. 207,

       |L119; Ap.  J. 218, L21.

       |

Gl     |Gliese, W. 1969, "Catalogue of Nearby Stars", Veroeff. Astron.

       |Rechen-Inst.  Heidelberg Nr.22; Gliese, W., Jahreiss, H. 1979,

       |"Nearby star data published 1969-1978", Astron.  Astrophys.

       |Suppl. 38, 423.

       |

He-2   |Henize, K. J. 1964, An extended list of southern planetary

       |nebulae; see PK Nomenclature.

       |

PK     |Perek, L., Kohoutek, L. 1967, "Catalogue of Galactic Planetary

       |Nebulae", Academia Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy

       |of Sciences.

       |

NGC    |Dreyer, J. L. E. 1888, "New General Catalogue of Nebulae and

       |Clusters of Stars", Mem. Roy.  Astron.  Soc. 49, Part I

       |(reprinted 1962, London:  Royal Astronomical Society); Sulentic,

       |J. W. and Tifft, W. G. 1973, "The Revised New General Catalogue

       |of Nonstellar Astronomical Objects" (Tucson:  The University of

       |Arizona Press).

       |

PPM    |Roeser S., Bastian U.et al.,1988, "Position and Proper Motion- North"

       |Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 74, 449; 1991, Astron. Astrophys.

       |Suppl. Ser. 87, 159;

       |"Positions and Proper Motions - South", 1992, Publ. Astr. Rechen

       |-Institut, Heidelberg, Spektrum Akademischer Vrlag, 1;

       |"Bright Stars Supplement to PPM", 1993, Astronomisches Rechen-

       |Institut, Heidelberg;

       |"The 90000 stars Supplement to the PPM Catalogue", 1994, Astron.

       | Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 105, 301.

       |

LHS    |Luyten, W. J. 1976, "A Catalog of Stars with Proper Motion

       |exceeding 0".5 annually", Publ. of Univ. of Minnesota,

       |Minneapolis, Minnesota; Luyten, W. J., Albers, H. 1979, "An

       |Atlas of Identification Chart for LHS Stars", Publ. of Univ. of

       |Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

       |

LTT    |Luyten, W. J. 1957, "Catalogue of 9867 Stars in the Southern

       |Hemisphere with Proper Motion exceeding 0".2 annually"; Luyten,

       |W. J. 1961, "Catalogue of 7127 Stars in the Northern Hemisphere

       |with Proper Motion exceeding 0".2 annually", The Lund Press,

       |Minneapolis, Minnesota.

       |

LFT    |Luyten, W. J. 1955, "A Catalog of 1849 Stars with Proper Motion

       |exceeding 0.5" annually", The Lund Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

       |

L      |Luyten, W. J. 1941, "Proper Motion Survey with the fourty-eight

       |inch Schmidt Telescope", XXI, XXV, XXIX, Publ. of Univ. of

       |Minnesota.

       |

LP     |Luyten, W. J. 1963-1981, "Proper Motion Survey with the 48 inch

       |Schmidt Telescope", Publ. of Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

       |fasc. 1-57.

       |

LDS    |Luyten, W. J. 1943, "Catalogue of 832 Double Stars with Common

       |Proper Motion in the Southern Hemisphere", Publ.  Astron.  Obs.

       |Univ.  Minnesota 3, No. 3, 33.

       |

BPM    |Luyten, W. J. 1963, "Bruce Proper Motion Survey. The general

       |catalogue. Vol. I, II", Publ. of Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

       |Minnesota.

       |

Ross   |Ross, F. E. 1925-1939, "New Proper Motion Stars", eleven

       |successive lists, A. J. Vol. 36 to 48.

       |

Vys    |Vyssotsky, A. N., et al. 1943-1958, "Dwarf M Stars Found

       |Spectrophotometrically", A. J. 61, 201; A. J. 63, 211; Ap.  J.

       |97, 381; Ap.  J. 104, 234; Ap.  J. 116, 117.

       |

Wolf   |Wolf, M. 1919, "Katalog von 1053 starken bewegten Fixsternen",

       |Veroeff.  Sternwarte zu Heidelberg 7, No. 10, 195; and numerous

       |lists in Astron.  Nachr. 209 to 236, 1919 to 1929.

       |

OH     |OH sources designated by their galactic co-ordinates.

       |

HII    |Hertzsprung, E. 1947, "Catalogue de 3259 Etoiles dans les

       |Pleiades", Ann.  Sterrewacht Leiden 19, part 1A.

       |

Par    |Parenago, P. P. 1954, "A List of Star in the Region of the Orion

       |Nebula", Trudy Sternberg Astron. Inst. Vol. 25.

       |

AN     |Preliminary designations of variables announced at the

       |"Astronomische Nachrichten".

       |

HV     |Preliminary designations of variables discovered at Harvard

       |Observatory.

       |

NSV    |Kholopov, P. N. (ed.) 1982, "New Catalogue of Suspected Variable

       |Stars", M.: Nauka.

       |

Prag   |Prager, R. 1934, "Katalog von 2428 als veraenderlich

       |angezeigten Sternen". Ergaenzungsh. Astron. Nachr., Bd. 9,

       |Nr. 3; Prager, R. 1937, "Katalog von 3401 als veraenderlich

       |angezeigten Sternen". Ergaenzungsh. Astron. Nachr., Bd. 10, Nr. 1.

       |

S      |Preliminary designations of variables discovered at Sonneberg

       |Observatory.

       |

SVS    |Soviet variable stars (preliminary designations of Soviet-

       |-discovered variables).

       |

VV     |Preliminary designations of variables discovered at Vatican.

       |

VES    |Lists of the Vatican H Alpha-emission line stars.

       |

Wr     |Preliminary designations of variable stars discovered by R. Weber.

       |

Zi     |Zinner, E. 1929, "Verzeichnis von 2191 verdaechtigen Sternen".

       |Ergaenzungsh. Astron. Nachr., Bd. 8, Nr. 1.

