================================================================================ NEW CATALOGUE OF SUSPECTED VARIABLE STARS. THE IMPROVED VERSION. ================================================================================ New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, Kukarkin B.V., Kholopov P.N., Artiukhina N.M., Fedorovich V.P., Frolov M.S., Goranskij V.P., Gorynya N.A., Karitskaya E.A., Kireeva N.N., Kukarkina N.P., Kurochkin N.E., Medvedeva G.I., Perova N.B., Ponomareva G.A., Samus N.N., and Shugarov S.Yu. ================================================================================ http://www.sai.msu.su/gcvs/gcvs/nsv/ INTRODUCTION This catalog is a compilation of 14811 stars suspected of variability and not finally designated as variables prior to 1980. It is the successor to the "Catalogues of Stars Suspected of Variability" published in 1951 and 1965 (Kukarkin et al.). Data contained in the present catalog include positions, magnitudes, variability types, alternate designations, and references to the literature. The computer version of NSV contains principally the same data as in the printed catalog, but only the data table without the textual material (bibliography, remarks) is included. Necessary corrections were introduced, as of June, 1997, and coordinates were improved, compared to the printed version, for about half of the stars in the catalog. Science the 2000 year we have started preparation of an electronic release the new version of NSV, wich will contain improved coordinates J2000 and other improved data. We present a preliminary version for 3500 stars from NSV. DESCRIPTION File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file nsv.dat 89 14811 The NSV Catalog ref.txt 221 2893 The list of remarks rem.txt 367 4576 The list of references -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: nsv.dat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bytes Format Units Label Explanations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1- 5 I5 --- NSV NSV number 6 A1 --- NSVLetter *NSV letter suffix 7 A1 --- u_NSV [-]Dubitancy flag if a star's variability seems doubtful or erroneous to the catalog compilers 8 A1 --- NoteFlag1 *[*] Notes in published catalog 10- 11 I2 h RAh *Hours RA, equinox 1950.0 12- 13 I2 min RAm *Minutes RA, equinox 1950.0 14- 17 F4.1 s RAs *Seconds RA, equinox 1950.0 18 A1 --- DE- *Sign Dec, equinox 1950.0 19- 20 I2 deg DEd *Degrees Dec, equinox 1950.0 21- 22 I2 arcmin DEm *Minutes Dec, equinox 1950.0 23- 25 I2 arcsec DEs *Seconds Dec, equinox 1950.0 26 A1 --- u_DEs *[:*] accuracy flags 27 A1 --- IDflag [?] Flag for doubtful identification 28- 29 I2 h RAh *Hours RA, equinox 2000.0 30- 31 I2 min RAm *Minutes RA, equinox 2000.0 32- 35 F4.1 s RAs *Seconds RA, equinox 2000.0 36 A1 --- DE- *Sign Dec, equinox 2000.0 37- 38 I2 deg DEd *Degrees Dec, equinox 2000.0 39- 40 I2 arcmin DEm *Minutes Dec, equinox 2000.0 41- 43 I2 arcsec DEs *Seconds Dec, equinox 2000.0 44 A1 --- u_DEs *[:*] accuracy flags 46- 50 A5 --- VarType *Type of variability 51 A1 --- l_magMax [><(]"<" if magMin is a bright limit 52- 56 F5.2 mag magMax *Magnitude at maximum brightness 57 A1 --- u_magMax [:]Uncertainty flag on magMax 59- 60 A2 --- l_magMin [><(]"<" if magMin is a bright limit "(" if magMin is an amplitude; with "><" prefix, the amplitude in the table is a lower or upper limit. 61- 66 F6.3 mag magMin *Minimum magnitude or amplitude 67- 68 A2 --- u_magMin [st:] a light amplitude is reported for the minimum and it is given in steps Uncertainty flag (:) on magMin 69 A1 --- f_magMin [)] ")" if magMin is an amplitude 70 A1 --- magCode *The photometric system for magnitudes 72-75 A4 --- Ref1 *Reference to a study of the star see the document by Kukarkin et al.(1982) 77-80 A4 --- Ref2 *Chart reference see the document by Kukarkin et al.(1982) 82-95 A14 --- Desig *Designation in paper Ref1 96-109 A13 --- SpType *Spectral type 110-119 A10 --- VarName *Designation in GCVS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note on NSVLetter: The letter "A" is present for one star, NSV 10360A, which is a completely different object from NSV 10360. Note on NoteFlag1: see the document by Kukarkin et al.(1982) There are several data fields that can contain asterisks. These signify that more complete information will be found in the remarks to the published catalog. The remarks are, unfortunately, not machine readable, but they do contain much supplemental information. There, one will find information covering situations like, e.g.: 1. The discoverer of the light variability is not the author of the paper cited in the variability reference, or is one of several authors of the paper cited. In these cases, discoverers' names are given in original transcriptions of the remarks. 2. The most important additional information about a star, although the NSV compilers did not intend to present complete bibliographies for any cataloged stars. 3. Remarks for visual binaries (in parentheses following the number of a star in the corresponding catalog) giving visual magnitudes for the individual components A and B, angular separations, and position angles for faint components (or semimajor axis of a relative orbit and period of orbital motion). Data for other components are then given where applicable. (Combined magnitudes are generally reported in the machine-readable table.) Note on RAh, RAm, RAs, DE-, DEd, DEm, DEs: The position is not listed when the variable is equivalent to a GCVS star (column VarName). Note on u_DEs: The actual accuracy of coordinates is indicated with the symbols: (:) means right ascensions accurate to one second of time and declinations accurate to one tenth of an arcminute; (*) means declinations accurate to one arcminute. Note on VarType: type of variability (see file ...\III\vartype.txt). The system of variable star classification corresponds to the GCVS4, with six additions (ZZO, AM, R, BE, LBV, BLBOO) introduced in the Name-Lists 67- 72 and in the GCVS vol.V. Note on magMax, magMin: Magnitudes are reported to hundredths if the observations are photoelectric, to tenths or whole magnitudes if they are not. If only an amplitude has been measured photoelectrically, then the maximum magnitude is generally given to tenths only and the minimum is reported to hundredths. Note on magCode: the photometric system in which magMin and magMax are reported (see also Note on n_magMax, n_magMin). The main codes are P (photographic magnitudes) and V (visual, photovisual, or Johnson's V). See also the documents by Kholopov et al. (1985-1988) or Warren (1988). Note on Ref1: Usually a 6-digit number coding, as a rule, the reference to the announcement of the discovery of variability. The first two digits give the year (in the 20th century) when the announcement was published (blank for the 19th century). The next four digits give the number in the list of references contained in the published catalog, which is generally the first publication announcing the possible variability. The numbers are followed by a letter code in most cases (byte 75) with the following meanings: K: the cited paper contains a chart or photograph of the field with the suspected variable marked. D: the cited paper does not contain a chart, but the star is cataloged in one of the Durchmusterungen (DM) (BD,CD,CPD). Note on Desig: The identification of the suspected variable in the paper referenced above. DM numbers are given without a prefix, the standard naming convention of "The Henry Draper Catalogue" being used (BD for zones +89 to -22; CD for -23 to -51; CP for -52 to -89). Some identifications are given by coordinate designations, a 6-digit number consisting of hours, minutes, and seconds (or tenths of a minute) of time and degrees of declination with sign included. An asterisk (*) signifies that a designation is given in the remarks to the published catalog. Stars are sometimes designated with numbers from the catalogs of Zinner (ZI, 1929) and Prager (PR, 1934, 1937) because the original discovery publications were not available to the NSV compilers. The catalogs of Zinner and Prager give detailed references to early observations of such stars. Note on SpType: Spectral types and subtypes only are given. Most luminosity classes are III to V, but if a star is a supergiant, more detailed classification information is given in the remarks to the published catalog. The following symbols are used: AF A-F AM Am AP Ap BE Be E emission spectrum EA e sub alpha EV variable emission in spectrum FG F-G KM K-M OF Of PD Pd T characteristics of T Tauri stars Note on Ref2: The coding for the numbers is similar to that used in the variability references described above, except that there are no letter codes. These are references to papers containing identification charts if no charts are given in the papers cited for the variability references. Note on VarName, NoteFlag2: 1) The alternative name of the variable. All necessary information on the star is to be found under that alternative name, in the iii.zip and nl.zip files. 2) The star's name in the GCVS Vol. V (see the file v.zip, where the explanation of the designations is also given). In this case, the symbol "*" in column 89 means the presence of remarks in Vol. V. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: CDS II/214A : The combined GCVS4.1 (Kholopov+, 1998) References: Aitken, R. G. 1932, "New General Catalogue of Double Stars within 120 Degrees of the North Pole", Carnegie Institution of Washington Pub. 417 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington). Argelander, F. 1859-62, "Bonner Sternverzeichnis. Erste bis dritte Sektion", Astronomischen Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte der Koeniglichen Rhein. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Bonn, Bande 3-5. Cannon, A. J. and Pickering, E. C. 1918-1924, "The Henry Draper Catalogue", Ann. Astron. Obs. Harvard College 91-99. 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). Gill, D. and Kapteyn, J. 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Warren, W.H., Jr. 1988, "New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars", Documentation for the Machine-Readable Version, NSSDC/WDC-A-R&S 88-24. Warren, W.H., Jr. 1989, "General Catalogue of Variable Stars", 4th edition, Documentation for the Machine-Readable Version, NSSDC/WDC-A-R&S 88-23 Zinner, E. 1929, Erganz. Astron. Nachr. 8, No. 1. ================================================================================ (End) N.N. Samus [Moscow Inst. Astron.], O.V. Durlevich [Sternberg Astron. Inst., Moscow] 6-Aug-1997