Release Date: 30-May-2026
Contents of /pub/cats  (Public Astronomical Catalogues and Lists)
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The subdirectories I, II ... IX contain catalogues for public access.
Each of these subdirectories is itself a subdirectory containing 
individual catalogues. The definition of the categories is:
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I    Astrometric Data
II   Photometric Data
III  Spectroscopic Data
IV   Cross-Identifications
V    Combined Data
VI   Miscellaneous
VII  Non-stellar Objects
VIII Radio and far-IR data
IX   High-energy data
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B    Catalogues used in data-bases (regularly updated)
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J    Published data ordered by Journal
     in subdirectories Abbr/Volume/First_Page
     where Abbr takes the values:
      A+A   = Astron. Astrophys.
      A+AS  = Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
      AJ    = Astron. J.
      ApJ   = Astrophys. J.
      ApJS  = Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser.
      IAUS  = IAU Symposium
      MNRAS = Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.
      PASP  = Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific
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Other files are included in this directory:

cdsclient.tar.gz :   ==== Version (2.7) ===
	a lightweight set of scripts which can be used to query astronomical
	catalogues available at CDS from any Unix/Linux platform, and get
	the result in ascii, FITS, XML ot TSV.
	Get details from http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/vizier/doc/cdsclient.htx

adc.sty: style file required to process LaTeX documents prepared at ADC
	 (Astronomical Data Center, NASA/Greenbelt)

cats.ps :     a Postscript document describing the standards adopted
		for the Documentation of Catalogues
cats.dvi:     same as above in DVI format

cats.bib :    a list of catalogues available at CDS, in "bibUnix" format
cats.lis :    a short list of catalogues available at CDS, in printable form
cats.all :    a full list of catalogues available at CDS
cats.tex :    a full list of catalogues available at CDS
		(to be processed by LaTeX) 


For requests of catalogues which are not publicly available, comments, 
suggestions, etc ... mail or email to the following addresses:
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       CDS, Observatoire Astronomique
       11, rue de l'Universite
       67000 STRASBOURG, France
Email: question@simbad.u-strasbg.fr
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