The First US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog

By N. Zacharias, S. Urban, M. Zacharias, D. Hall, G. L. Wycoff, T. Rafferty, M. Germain, E. Holdenried, J. Pohlman, F. Gauss and 2 more. 2000

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Low-Luminosity Companions to White Dwarfs (2005, background): “In decreasing order these are: the Tycho 2 catalog (Høg et al. 2000), the UCAC catalogs (Zacharias et al. 2000, 2004), the USNO B1.”
An Improved Proper-Motion Catalog Combining USNO-B and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004, methodology): “…used introduce systematic errors of typically 45 mas (for those areas of sky reduced using the US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog [UCAC; Zacharias et al. 2000]—this includes most of DR1) to 75 mas (for those areas of sky reduced against Tycho-2 [Høg et al. 2000]) on scales of roughly a…”
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release (2002, methodology): “Whenever possible, stars detected on the r photometric CCDs are matched directly with stars in the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC; Zacharias et al. 2000).”
Astrometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002, methodology): “…area of sky, for point sources brighter than r 20, the astrometry is accurate to 45 mas rms when reduced against the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC; Zacharias et al. 2000) and 75 mas rms when reduced against Tycho-2 (Høg et al. 2000), with additional systematic errors of 20–30 mas in both cases.”
Improved Astrometry and Photometry for the Luyten Catalog. II. Faint Stars and the Revised Catalog (2002, background): “On a larger scale, our principal hope in this regard is the US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC; Zacharias et al. 2000), which expects to obtain CCD photometry to R 16.”
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release (2007, methodology): “The SDSS coordinates are placed in the International Celestial Reference System, primarily through theUSNavalObservatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (Zacharias et al. 2000), and have an rms accuracy of 0.04500 per coordinate.”
The Mass of the Milky Way: Limits from a newly assembled set of halo objects (2002, background): “To a great extent, the lack of proper-motion measurements (at least for southern sources) will be removed with the completion of the recently re-started Southern Proper Motion survey of van Altena and colleagues, as well as other efforts to substantially increase the numbers of stars with reasonably”
The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey – III. Astrometry (2001, methodology): “Future projects, both ground-based (for example, the UCAC project – see Zacharias et al. 2000) and space-based, will provide higher density catalogues reaching fainter magnitudes and will bridge the magnitude range ð10:0 , V , 15:0Þ required to eliminate such systematic errors from the plate…”
The Second US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC2) (2004, methodology): “This second data release, the UCAC2, is a substantial increase in data volume and includes improvements of reduction techniques over the first release, UCAC1, as described in Paper I (Zacharias et al. 2000).”
Light and motion in SDSS Stripe 82: The catalogues (2008, methodology): “Each SDSS imaging run was astrometrically calibrated against the US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC; Zacharias et al. 2000), yielding absolute positions accurate to ∼45 mas RMS per coordinate (Pier et al. 2003).”
The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) (2006, methodology): “Astrometric Accuracy and Uniformity Comparison of the 2MASS point-source positions with the Tycho-2 catalog (Hög et al. 2000) and the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC; Zacharias et al. 2000) demonstrate that 2MASS positions are consistent with the ICRS with a net offset no larger than 15 mas.”
Bright Metal-poor Stars from the Hamburg/ESO Survey. I. Selection and Follow-up Observations from 329 Fields (2006, methodology): “We identified stars in the 2MASS All Sky Data Release (Skrutskie et al. 2006) and obtained J , H and K magnitudes, in the UCAC2 (Zacharias et al. 2000) and in the SPM3.”
Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample (2002, methodology): “…g*, r*, i*, and z*, but we use u, g, r, i, and z to refer to the SDSS filter and magnitude system itself.21 The astrometric calibration (Pier et al. 2002) is done by comparison with the Tycho-2 (Høg et al. 2000) and UCAC (Zacharias et al. 2000) standards and is accurate to 0>1 rms per coordinate.”
THE THIRD US NAVAL OBSERVATORY CCD ASTROGRAPH CATALOG (UCAC3) (2004, methodology): “For more details about the observational data and earlier reductions the reader is referred to the UCAC1 (Zacharias et al. 2000) and UCAC2 (Zacharias et al. 2004) papers.”
THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY (2008, methodology): “Later runs were calibrated against preliminary versions of the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC, Zacharias et al. 2000), which yielded improved statistical errors per coordinate of approximately 45 mas, with systematic errors of 20 – 30 mas (Pier et al. 2003).”
The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog (2001, background): “…expected that with other large publications of data planned in the future (e.g., the Two Micron All Sky Survey [Skrutskie 2001] and the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog [see, e.g., Zacharias et al. 2000], as well as further Tycho reduction [Fabricius et al. 2001]), the growth of the WDS will continue.”
THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY COADD: 275 deg2 OF DEEP SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY IMAGING ON STRIPE 82 (2011, methodology): “Pier et al. (2003) were able to achieve positions accurate to ∼45 mas rms per coordinate by calibrating to the U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalogue (UCAC; Zacharias et al. 2000).”