Astronomy:General Catalogue of Variable Stars

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Short description: List of variable stars

The General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) is a list of variable stars in the Milky Way Galaxy[lower-alpha 1]. Its first edition, containing 10,820 stars, was published in 1948 by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, edited by Boris Kukarkin (ru) and Pavel Parenago.[1] Second and third editions were published in 1958 and 1968. The fourth edition, containing 28,435 stars, was published in three volumes in 1985–1987.[2][3] Later, two more volumes were published: the fourth volume containing reference tables and the fifth volume containing extragalactic variable stars.[3] The first release of the fifth edition (GCVS 5.1), which is periodically updated, currently contains 58,035 variable stars;[4][5] it is available at the GCVS website and at the VizieR astronomical catalogue service.

Notes

  1. The fourth edition also included a list of extragalactic variable stars, but the fifth edition is no longer updating it.

References

  1. Kulikovskij, P. G. (June 1978), "B. V. Kukarkin, 1909 October 30 - 1977 September 15", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 19: 247–248, Bibcode1978QJRAS..19..247K 
  2. Schweitzer, Emile. "The names and catalogues of variable stars". http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/afoev/var/edenom.htx. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Samus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V.; Kazarovets, R. V. (March 1997), "The General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS)", Baltic Astronomy 6: 296–299, doi:10.1515/astro-1997-0229, Bibcode1997BaltA...6..296S. 
  4. Samus', N. N.; Kazarovets, E. V.; Durlevich, O. V.; Kireeva, N. N.; Pastukhova, E. N. (2017). "General catalogue of variable stars: Version GCVS 5.1". Astronomy Reports 61 (1): 80. doi:10.1134/S1063772917010085. Bibcode2017ARep...61...80S. 
  5. "GCVS Introduction". http://www.sai.msu.su/gcvs/gcvs/intr.htm. 

External links

lb:USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog