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General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database, Version 2012 Feb.)

The cross-identification tables

Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Zharova A.V., et al.

Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences and Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University

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The cross-identification tables of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) contain all GCVS (including extragalactic variables from vol.V), NSV (New catalogue of Suspected Variable stars) and Supplement to the NSV stars as well as stars from the name-lists of variable stars nos. 67 - 80; it also makes it possible to find out identifications between the GCVS and the NSV catalogue. The tables also contain stars suspected in variability since the publication of the NSV catalogue or not present in this catalogue for other reasons. We give only source catalogue numbers for these stars.

We tried to provide as complete lists as possible for the stars identified with the catalogues HD, BD, CoD, CPD, BS, ADS, Hip, GSC and for the stars with preliminary HV (Harvard Variable) designations. As for the other catalogues, our task here was more difficult since we had to rely upon references to source catalogue names made by variable star researchers; the tables in the present volume reproduce the materials used in our work, and incompleteness seems to be inavoidable.

The tables with the catalogues and lists arranged in the alphabet order of the abbreviated names of source catalogs and lists (see Table). They are preceeded with two more tables, those for GCVS and NSV catalogs, playing a role differing from those of the rest of the tables. The first one contains GCVS stars having also NSV catalog names or/and names within corresponding galaxies in the GCVS Vol. V. The second one contains NSV catalog stars having names within corresponding galaxies in the GCVS Vol. V or/and alternate NSV catalog names (cases of duplicate entries for a single star in the NSV catalog); only stars without GCVS (Vols. I-III) names are included. The names in the first column of each of these two tables are considered principal names of corresponding stars; these stars enter the rest of the tables ONLY under such first names.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl       Explanations
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crossid.dat     52         The Cross-Identifications of Variable Stars
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: crossid.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  4  A4    ---     Cat      *Abbreviated name of catalog or list
   6- 31  A26   ---     Seq       Star number or name in the respective catalog
  32- 35  A4    ---   m_Seq      *Component designation
  37- 47  A12   ---     Variable *Designation in GCVS or NSV
      49  A1    ---   m_Variable *Component designation
      51  A1    ---     IDflag    [:] Flag for doubtful identifications
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Note on Cat: the following catalog abbreviations are used:

ADS = R.G.Aitken, 'New General Catalouge of Double Stars', Carnegie Inst. of Washington Publ. no.417, vols.I, II, 1932

AN = Preliminary designations of variable stars introduced by the 'Astronomische Nachrichten'

AS = P.W. Merrill, C.G.Burwell, 'Additional Stars whose Spectra have a Bright H Alpha Line', Astrophys. J. 112, 72, 1950 (=1950ApJ...112...72M); see also Astrophys. J. 113, 624, 1951 (=1951ApJ...113..624M)

BAY = Bayer, list of those bright stars having designations by Greek letters in their constellations

BD = Bonner Durchmusterung, F.W.A. Argelander, Bonner Sternverzeichniss, 1 bis 4 sektion, Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte de Kgl. Rhein/ Friedrich-Wilhelms-Unviersiaet zu Bonn

BS (HR) = D. Hoffleit, 'The Bright Star Catalogue', 4th Revised Ed., Yale University Observatory, New Haven, Conn. USA, 1982 (see catalog )

CoD = Cordoba Durchmusterung, J. M. Thome, Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino 16 - 18; 21, 1892-1932

CPD = Cape Photographic Durchmusterung, D. GIll and J. C. Kapteyn, Ann. Cape Obs. 3-5, 1895 - 1900

CRL (AFGL) = Air Force Geophysics Laboratory. Four-Color Infrared Sky Survey (and supplement): S.D. Price and R.G. Walker - AFGL-TR-76-028 (Hanscom AFB, MA, Air Force Geophysics Lab., Air Force Systems Command, USAF, 1976; S.D. Price and T.L. Murdock - Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, AFGL-TR-83-0161

EG = O.J. Eggen, J.L. Greenstein, 'Spectra, Colors, Luminosities, and Motions of the White Dwarfs', Astrophys. J. 141, 83 (1965ApJ...141...83E); additional stars in Astrophys. J. 142, 925 (1965ApJ...142..925E) and 150, 927 (1967ApJ...150..927E); more stars added by J.L. Greenstein, see references in McCook and Sion, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 65, 603 (1987ApJS...65..603M)

FLM = Flamsteed, List of those bright stars having designations by number in their constellations

G = H.L. Giclas, R. Burnham Jr., and N.G. Thomas, (Large Proper Motion Stars) - Publications of Lowell Obs., Flagstaff, Arizona, 1971

GD = H.L. Giclas White Dwarfs (Lowell Obs.)

Gl = W. Gliese, 'Catalogue of Nearby Stars', Veroeff. Astron. Rechen-Inst. Heidelberg nr.22, 1969; W. Gliese, H. Jahreiss, 'Nearby star data published 1969-1978', Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 38, 423 (1979A&AS...38..423G); see catalog

GSC = The Guide Star Catalog ( B. M. Lasker, C. R. Sturch, B. J. McLean, et al., Astron. J. 99, 2019, 1990).

HD = Henry Draper Catalogue - A.J. Cannon and E.C. Pickering, Havard Obs. Ann. 91 - 99, 1918-1924; A. J. Cannon, Harvard Obs. Ann. 100, 1925 - 1936; see catalog

He = A number of lists of planetary nebulae and emission-line stars by K. Henize

Hip = The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (European Space Agency, 1997), ESA SP-1200

HII = E. Hertzsprung, 'Catalogue de 3259 Etoiles dans les Pleiades', Ann. Sterrewacht Leiden, 19, pt. 1A, 1947

HRC = G.H. Herbig, N.K. Rao, 'Second Catalog of Emission-line Stars of the Orion Population', Astrophys. J. 174, 401 (1972ApJ...174..401H); G.H. Herbig, K.R. Bell, 'Third Catalog of Emission-Line Stars of the Orion Population', Lick Obs. Bull. no. 1111, 1988 (catalog )

HV = Harvard variables

IRC = G. Neugebauer, R.B. Leighton, 'Two-Micron Sky Survey, A Preliminary Catalog', NASA SP-3047, 1969; catalog

LH = Lick H Alpha: A number of lists of emission-line stars by G.H. Herbig

MH = Mount Wilson H-Alpha Stars, see references for MWC and AS

MWC = P.W. Merrill, C.G. Burwell, 'Catalogue and Bibliography of Stars of Classes B and A Whose Spectra have Bright Hydrogen Lines', Astrophys. J. 78, 87 (1933ApJ....78...87M) (Mount Wilson Catalogue); Supplements: Astrophys. J. 98, 153 (1943ApJ....98..153M); 110, 387 (1949ApJ...110..387M)

OH = OH sources designated by their galactic coordinates

Par = A List of Stars in the Region of the Orion Nebula (P.P. Parenago, Sternberg Inst. Publ. vol. 25, 1954; catalog )

PG = Palomar-Green survey

S = Preliminary designations of variables discovered at Sonneberg Observatory

SAO = 'Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog', parts I-IV, Smithsonian Inst. Washington, 1966

SVS = Soviet Variable Stars (preliminary designations of Soviet-discovered variables)

VV = Vatican variable stars

WD = G.P. Mc Cook, E.M. Sion, 'Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs', Astrophys. J. Suppl. 65, 603 (1987ApJS...65..603M)

WR = K.A. van der Hucht et al. 'The Sixth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars, Their Past and Present', Space Sci. Rev. 28, 227, 1981

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Note on m_Seq, m_Variable:

Designations of components of double/multiple stars: A,B,C ...; a,b,c ...; 1,2,3 ...; the symbols P = preceding, F = following, N = northern, S = southern may also appear. In the cases of ADS 03201 and ADS 03202 the symbols k1 and k2 mean kappa 1 and kappa 2, respectively.

Note on Variable:

name of the object in the GCVS, its Volume V, or the NSV. Lower- and upper-case latin letters must be distinguished (e.g. u Her and U Her).

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