2009/01/01 by O. V. Verkhodanov, О. В. Верходанов, С. А. Трушкин +4 · 37 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Computer science #Environmental Monitoring and Data Management #Galaxy #Observatory #Physics #Pulsar #Quasar #Radio telescope #Stars #Supernova #Virtual observatory #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.2481/dsj.8.34
published in Data Science Journal 8, 34-40 (Ubiquity Press) · 8 pages, no figures; accepted for publication in Data Science Journal, vol. 8 (2009), http://dsj.codataweb.org; presented at Special Session "Astronomical Data and the Virtual Observatory" on the conference "CODATA 21", Kiev, Ukraine, October 5-8, 2008; replaced incorrect reference arXiv:0901.2085 with arXiv:0901.2805
openalex publication_date 2009/01/01 · arxiv created 2009/01/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We describe the current status of CATS (astrophysical CATalogs Support system), a publicly accessible tool maintained at Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) (http://cats.sao.ru) allowing one to search hundreds of catalogs of astronomical objects discovered all along the electromagnetic spectrum. Our emphasis is mainly on catalogs of radio continuum sources observed from 10 MHz to 245 GHz, and secondly on catalogs of objects such as radio and active stars, X-ray binaries, planetary nebulae, HII regions, supernova remnants, pulsars, nearby and radio galaxies, AGN and quasars. CATS also includes the catalogs from the largest extragalactic surveys with non-radio waves. In 2008 CATS comprised a total of about 109 records from over 400 catalogs in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray windows, including most source catalogs deriving from observations with the Russian radio telescope RATAN-600. CATS offers several search tools through different ways of access, e.g. via Web-interface and e-mail. Since its creation in 1997 CATS has managed about 105requests. Currently CATS is used by external users about 1500 times per day and since its opening to the public in 1997 has received about 4000 requests for its selection and matching tasks.