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Milky Way Globular Clusters Catalog (December 2010 Version)
Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)
This is the Catalog of Parameters for Milky Way Globular Clusters (December 2010 Version) that was compiled by William E. Harris of McMaster University.
Description
This is the first update since 2003 and the biggest single revision since the original version of the catalog published in 1996. The list now contains a total of 157 objects classified as globular clusters.
Major upgrades have been made especially to the cluster coordinates, metallicities, and structural profile parameters, and the list of parameters now also includes the central velocity dispersion. This table contains basic parameters on distances, velocities, metallicities, luminosities, colors, and dynamical parameters for over 150 objects that are regarded as globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. Please acknowledge the use of this catalog in any published work you derive from it.
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The proper reference to the literature is the published paper (Harris, W.E. 1996, AJ, 112, 1487) which briefly describes the setup of the catalog. When you cite it in your text, please use "Harris 1996 (2010 edition)". The author would also greatly appreciate receiving any new information, in published or preprint form, which would help him to keep the list up to date (contact W. E. Harris at harris@physics.mcmaster.ca).
A full discussion of the sources used in the creation of this catalog and of the parameters that it contains can be found in the file: <a href="physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.ref">http://physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.ref</a>. This table was originally ingested by the HEASARC circa 1995. It was last updated by the HEASARC in February 2014 based on an electronic version (dated December 2010) copied from the file <a href="physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.dat">http://physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.dat</a>.
This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Links
Where it is published
- Reference page heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/globclust.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/globclust ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Optical
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Astronomical sciences 69% · Tabular 65% · Text 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://nasa.heasarc/globclust | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:5101 | enrichment · IVOA Registry | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| 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 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:text | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| 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 |