BDB - Binary star DataBase (2013)

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Database

Licence : CC BY-NC-SA doi:10.25666/DATAOSU-2016-12-09-03

Data creator : Oleg Malkov ^[1]

Data collector : Alexey Karchevsky ^[2], Bernard Debray ^[3] ^[4], Dana A. Kovaleva ^[1], Oleg Malkov ^[1], Pavel V. Kaygorodov ^[1]

[1] : Institut d'Astronomie de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie

[2] : Moscow State University

[3] : Institut UTINAM (UMR 6213) (Université de Franche-Comté)

[4] : Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers - Terre, Homme, Environnement, Temps, Astronomie (UAR 3245) (Université de Franche-Comté)

Description :

The Binary star DataBase (BDB) is the database of binary/multiple stellar systems of various observational types. BDB contains data on physical and positional parameters of 260,000 components of 120,000 stellar systems of multiplicity 2 to more than 20, taken from a large variety of published catalogues and databases.

Discipline :

astronomy & astrophysics (sciences of the universe)

Keywords :

astronomy databases, binary stars, catalogs

General metadata

Data acquisition date : from 2011 ongoing

Data acquisition methods :

Derived or compiled data :
The database compiles data issued taken from a large variety of published catalogues and databases cross-referenced together.

La base données offre l'accès à des données issues de catalogues d'étoiles doubles et multiples ainsi que de données observationnelles, cross-référencées entre elles

Update periodicity : continually

Language : English (eng)

Formats : text/html, text/plain

Audience : Middle school Education, Community College, University: licence, University: master, Research, Informal Education, Amateur

Coverages

Spatial coverage :

AllSky: right ascension 0h, declination between 90° N and 90° S

Time coverage :

Binary star observations: 1690 and after

Spectral coverage :

Visible: between 300 nm and 1 µm
X-Ray: between 120 eV and 120 keV

Publications :

Binary star DataBase BDB development: structure, algorithms, and VO standards implementation (doi:10.1016/j.ascom.2015.02.007)
Advancement and New Functionality of the Binary Star DataBase (BDB) (bibcode:2016ASPC..505...44M)
Binary star database BDB: datasets and services (bibcode:2014A&AT...28..235M)
Design and Implementation of BDB, the Binary Star Database (doi:10.1051/eas/1364067)

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