Public Databases for Radio Astronomy: a joint venture between East and West
Abstract
Existing astronomical data centers and databases of celestial objects show a notable lack in published information on sources of radio emission. Two western and two eastern research teams have spent independent efforts in the past both in collecting systematically old and newly published source lists in electronic form, and in building search tools to query these. This project joins the efforts of all teams and proposes to establish the first reasonably complete and publicly accessible database of radio sources. The organization of the database of astrophysical catalogs is described. This ``CATalog supporting System'' (CATS) runs under the UNIX/LINUX operating system and permits external users to process requests on the basis of various net protocols and via electronic mail.
- Publication:
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Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS
- Pub Date:
- 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996adis.conf...37T
- Keywords:
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- RADIO SOURCES;
- DATABASES;
- CATALOGUES