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The IAU Numbering System of Radio Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

B. Elsmore
B. Elsmore*
Affiliation:
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England

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The convention for numbering radio sources adopted by the IAU uses the 1950 coordinates of right ascension in hours and minutes, followed by the declination truncated to tenths of a degree. It was designed for a growing population of sources so that new sources may be added and given an IAU number, unlike, for example, the listing in the BD catalogue which is a closed assembly.

Type
IX. Administration and Distribution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 109: Astrometric Techniques , 1986 , pp. 737 - 738
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986