[vsnet-j 783] CV Catalog

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

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A Catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables - The Living Edition

Ronald A. Downes, Ronald F. Webbink, Michael M. Shara, Hans Ritter, 
Ulrich Kolb, and Hilmar W. Duerbeck

The next edition of the Catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables is
now available.  We have decided against publishing a paper 3rd edition
for several reasons.  Our goal of having a central location for all
objects is slowly being lost as each new edition is generated.  There
can also be a long time delay between new information becoming
available on an object and its publication in the catalog.  To
eliminate these concerns, as well as to make the catalog more
accessible, we have created a web site which will contain a ``living''
edition of the catalog.  We have also added orbital period
information, as well as finding charts for novae, to the catalog.

The site can be reached via:

http://icarus.stsci.edu/~downes/cvcat/

There will be an upcoming PASP (June) paper describing the site, but the
on-line documentation should allow for easy usage. We plan to update
the site with new objects and information on a continual basis,
although period and spaced-based updates will occur roughly every six
months. We encourage users to inform us of any updates that should be
implemented (e.g. revised identifications, new objects, etc.), and if
appropriate to send us improved/original finding charts (as either
postscript or jpeg images).  The charts will be particularly useful
for recent novae recovered in quiescence, and for the faintest objects
where deep CCD imaging clearly reveals the correct identification.

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