Table · dataset · 2026
General Catalog of Variable Stars: Suspected Variable Stars (2025-11 Version)
Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)
This catalog is a compilation of stars that have been suspected of variability but have (mostly) not been finally designated as variables.
Description
It is the merging and latest updated version of the compilation of the New Catalog of Suspected Variable Stars (NSV Catalog) originally published in 1982 by Kukarkin et al. and the Supplement to the NSV originally published in 1998 by Kazarovets et al. This version (NSV Release 2) has updated the previous catalog in several ways.
The accuracy of coordinates has been drastically improved for the objects in the catalog; for most of them, the authors have revised the photometric and spectroscopic data and updated the remarks. In the cases with no existing finding charts, the authors recovered variability of 2800 stars of the catalog, despite large errors of the previously published coordinates. The data contained in the present catalog include positions, magnitudes, variability types, references to the literature, and spectra.
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This version of the GCVS catalog was last updated by the HEASARC in June 2026, based on the files <a href="sai.msu.su/gcvs/gcvs/nsv2/nsv2.txt">http://www.sai.msu.su/gcvs/gcvs/nsv2/nsv2.txt</a> and <a href="sai.msu.su/gcvs/gcvs/nsvsup/nsvs.dat">http://www.sai.msu.su/gcvs/gcvs/nsvsup/nsvs.dat</a>. These files were last modified by the authors in November 2025. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Links
Where it is published
- Reference page heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/gcvsnsvars.html ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/nasa.heasarc/gcvsnsvars ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Optical
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://nasa.heasarc/gcvsnsvars | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |