Ra. Downes et al., A CATALOG AND ATLAS OF CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES - 2ND EDITION, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 109(734), 1997, pp. 345-440
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599
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
We present a catalog of all 1020 known cataclysmic variables (CVs). Th
is paper is a major update of the first edition of the catalog (Downes
and Shara, 1993, PASP, 105, 127), which contained coordinates (measur
ed in the reference frame of the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Sur
vey for the non-novae, and obtained from the literature for the novae)
, the variability type, the magnitude range, and references to both fi
nding charts and spectroscopy. Also included in the catalog were findi
ng charts for all dwarf novae, novalike variables, and objects classif
ied only as cataclysmic variables known as of 1993; a similar catalog
and atlas for novae has been published by Duerbeck (1987, SSRV, 45, 1)
. This updated edition includes 195 new objects (172 CVs and 23 non-CV
s), revised identifications for 57 objects, and revised information (c
lassification and spectral references) when available. We also now inc
lude plate identification information for the coordinate measurements,
a reference to the classification, proper motion information where ap
propriate, and a table showing the CVs observed by space-based observa
tories. This second edition is inclusive of the first edition, althoug
h only new or updated charts are presented.