General Catalogue of Variable Stars
List of variable stars
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Prior to the widespread use of photography in astronomy, new variable stars were discovered at a slow pace, and they were simply added to lists. In the late 19th century photographic programs, especially at the Harvard College Observatory, led to a rapid increase in the number of known variable stars. In the 1920s, the variable star commission of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft began the annual publication of a catalogue of variable stars. The last of these catalogues, published in 1943, contained 9476 stars. After World War II, the IAU moved the responsibility for the variable star catalogue to the Soviet Union. In 1994 the IAU stopped financially supporting the production of the GCVS.
The acquisition of data from gravitational lensing studies and space-based missions has resulted in the discovery of thousands of new variable stars. For example, in 1996, data on 5665 variable stars discovered by the Hipparcos mission were sent to the Russian group maintaining the GCVS.
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- Kukarkin, B. V.; Kholopov, P. N.; Pskovsky, Y. P.; Efremov, Y. N.; Kukarkina, N. P.; Kurochkin, N. E.; Medvedeva, G. I. (1971). "The third edition containing information on 20437 variable stars discovered and designated till 1968". General Catalogue of Variable Stars. Bibcode:1971GCVS3.C......0K.
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- Samus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V.; et al. (2004). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: Combined General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2004)". Vizier Online Data Catalog. Bibcode:2004yCat.2250....0S.
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- Samus, N. N.; Kazarovets, E. V.; Durlevich, O. V.; Kireeva, N. N.; Pastukhova, E. N. (2017). "General catalogue of variable stars: Version GCVS 5.1". Astronomy Reports. 61 (1): 80. Bibcode:2017ARep...61...80S. doi:10.1134/S1063772917010085.
- Supplements
- Kazarovets, E. V.; Samus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V. (1998). "New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. Supplement - Version 1.0". Information Bulletin on Variable Stars. 4655: 1. Bibcode:1998IBVS.4655....1K.
- Kazarovets, E. V.; Samus, N. N.; Durlevich, O. V. (2022). "Revised Version of the New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, NSV Release 2". Astronomy Reports. 66 (7): 555–560. Bibcode:2022ARep...66..555K. doi:10.1134/S1063772922080066.