Standard Objects For Astronomy
 
 
 
 
 
 

version mirror site in India at Physical Research Laboratory
mirror site in the USA at the University of Toledo

mirror site (still active but now out of date) in France at LAOG


 
 
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1. Interferometry, Adaptive Optics 
The needs here are for stars with well known diameters or unresolvable objects for calibration purposes...
Apparent diameters and absolute radii of stars
Fracassini et al. (1988)
7255 stellar radii
Interferometer phase calibration sources
Wrobel et al. (1998), Patnaik et al. (1992), Browne (1998), Wilkinson (1998)
2118 compact radio sources as candidate phase calibrators for VLBI networks or ALMA
Catalog of UBVRI photometry of globular clusters
Peterson (1986)
56 UBVRI records

 
...for binary with recorded separation, clusters or extended galaxies...
The Database of Double and Multiple Stars global data  for multiple stars
Standard stars for binary-star interferometry

McAlister et al. (1983)

26 binaries proposed as standard
LEDA data on 160 000 galaxies
NED data on 375 000 extragalactic objects
WEBDA a site devoted to stellar open clusters
Photometric studies of composite stellar systems

Frogel et al. (1978)

photometry of 51 early-type galaxies and 5 globular clusters 
...for stars with specific magnitude/spectral type  used as reference (PSF), see also section 2.Photometry
Hipparcos 118 218 records
USNO-A V2.0 526 280 881 records (astrometry)
Bright Star catalogue 5th ed., 9096 records
SAO Star catalogue 258 997 records
Henry Draper catalogue 272 150 records
GSC 19 millions records
PPM star catalogue North
PPM star catalogue South
181 731 records
197 179 records
GCPD The General Catalogue of Photometric Data
Near IR Photometry of a Sample of IRAS Point Sources

Fouqué et al. (1992)

570 sources in JHKL'M
Gezari catalog of infrared observations 55 000  infrared sources
IRAS point sources catalogue 250 000 infrared sources
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