VizieR

• Introduction

• Basic tutorial (pdf)
• Advanced tutorial (pdf)

• Frequently Asked Questions
• List of standard catalogue acronyms
• Preparing and Submitting Tabular Data
• Query VizieR using the batch mode (the cdsclient package)
• Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature

• Strasbourg, France
• Tokyo, Japan
• Victoria, Canada
• Pune, India
• Moscow, Russia
• Beijng, China
• Cambridge, USA
• IDIA, South Africa

This service was created by Francois Ochsenbein, it is currently maintained by Gilles Landais and Pierre Ocvirk at CDS; Patricia Vannier, Emmanuelle Perret, Marianne Brouty and Sylvain Guehenneux are taking care of the preparation of the tabular material at CDS, and Greg Schwarz takes care of the tabular material for the AAS journals. Thanks also to all contributors, authors and editors.

Thomas Boch, Francois Xavier Pineau contributes also to the large catalogues population (GLIMPSE, WISE, ...).

Contact: mailto:cds-question@unistra.fr?Subject=vizier

VizieR was initially started as a joint effort of CDS (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg) and ESA-ESRIN (Information Systems Division), and is now fully managed by CDS. VizieR has been available since 1996, and was described in a paper published in A&AS 143, 23 (2000).

Note that VizieR does not contain all available online catalogues; some catalogues are not suitable and some less frequently used catalogues have not yet been incorporated into the VizieR database. These last ones can be accessed by FTP from the Astronomer's Bazaar.