Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue 14 |
Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue 14 was released on 31 December 2005. This is an astrometric and photometric catalogue of 95.9 million stars in the red (SDSS r') magnitude range 9 to 17. This catalogue is the next release of the CMT CCD survey and covers the declination range -30° to +50°.
CMC14 external accuraciesUnits: Astrometric - milliarcseconds Photometric - millimagnitudes |
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The data can be accessed in the following directory (cmc14/carlsberg). It is also available on a DVD which can be obtained from:
José Luis Muiños Haro
Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada
Plaza de las Marinas, s/n
E-11110, San Fernando. SPAIN
e-mail ppmu@roa.es
The documentation for CMC14 is also available.
The data is now available via VizieR (Catalogue I/304) at CDS. It is also available via the Virtual Observatory at AstroGrid.
Bill Gray at Project Pluto has written some code for use of CMC14.
Evans, D.W.,
``Calibrating the astrometric fluctuations in the CMT CCD Drift-Scan
Survey''.
in ``The New Era of Wide Field Astronomy'', eds. Roger Clowes, Andrew Adamson
& Gordon Bromage.
ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 232. Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco, p329 (2001).
Gzipped PS version
Evans, D.W.,
``The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope: an astrometric robotic telescope''.
AN, 322, 347-351 (2001).
PDF version
Evans, D.W., Irwin, M.J., Helmer, L.,
``The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope CCD drift scan survey''.
A&A, 395, 347-356 (2002).
astro-ph entry.
Dafydd Wyn Evans / IoA / dwe @ ast.cam.ac.uk