The ALADIN interactive sky atlas - A reference tool for identification of astronomical sources

By F. Bonnarel, P. Fernique, O. Bienaymé, D. Egret, F. Genova, M. Louys, F. Ochsenbein, M. Wenger, J. Bartlett. 2000

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The Aladin interactive sky atlas, developed at CDS, is a service providing simultaneous access to digitized images of the sky, astronomical catalogues, and databases. The driving motivation is to facilitate direct, visual comparison of observational data at any wavelength with images of the optical sky, and with reference catalogues.  The set of available sky images consists of the STScI Digitized Sky Surveys, completed with high resolution images of crowded regions scanned at the MAMA facility in Paris. A Java WWW interface to the system is available at: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/.

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BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. V. X-Ray Properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN Catalog (2017, methodology): “…SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France (Wenger et al. 2000); the Aladin sky atlas, developed at CDS, Strasbourg Observatory, France (Bonnarel et al. 2000; Boch & Fernique 2014); Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013);…”
Two Suns in The Sky: Stellar Multiplicity in Exoplanet Systems (2006, methodology): “We used the 2MASS web database, accessed via the Aladin interactive sky atlas7 (Bonnarel et al. 2000) to obtain equinox 2000 coordinates for the companion candidates, the epoch of observation, and J , H and KS photometry.”
Triggered massive-star formation on the borders of Galactic H II regions I. A search for "collect and collapse" candidates (2004, positive): “This research has made use of the Simbad astronomical database operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France, and of the interactive sky atlas Aladin (Bonnarel et al. 2000).”
The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) Light Curve Server v1.0 (2017, methodology): “To help visually evaluate both issues, the light curve server page returns an Aladin Sky Atlas (Bonnarel et al. 2000, Boch & Fernique 2014) image of the region surrounding the target.”
THE GALACTIC O-STAR SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY. I. CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM AND BRIGHT NORTHERN STARS IN THE BLUE-VIOLET AT R ∼ 2500 (2011, methodology): “This research has made extensive use of [a] Aladin (Bonnarel et al. 2000); [b] the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France; and [c] the Washington Double Star Catalog, maintained at the U.S. Naval Observatory (Mason et al. 2001).”
Clusters and mirages: cataloguing stellar aggregates in the Milky Way (2019, methodology): “This research has made use of Aladin sky atlas developed at CDS, Strasbourg Observatory, France (Bonnarel et al. 2000; Boch & Fernique 2014).”
Planck2015 results: XXVI. The SecondPlanckCatalogue of Compact Sources (2015, positive): “This research has made use of the “Aladin sky atlas” (Bonnarel et al. 2000), developed at CDS, Strasbourg Observatory, France.”
The second data release of the INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS DR2) (2014, methodology): “We also made use of the MONTAGE software maintained by NASA/IPAC, and the SIMBAD, VIZIER, and ALADIN services operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France (Bonnarel et al. 2000).”
HyperLEDA. III. The catalogue of extragalactic distances (2014, methodology): “A variety of images of the field can be displayed with a possible overlay that the database objects use, for instance, the Aladin8 applet (Bonnarel et al. 2000) from the Centre de Données de Strasbourg.”
THE NATURE OF STARBURSTS. I. THE STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF EIGHTEEN NEARBY STARBURST DWARF GALAXIES (2010, methodology): “The field of view of the HST observations are represented as footprints on DSS images (Bonnarel et al. 2000) in Figure 1.”
A CONTINUUM OF H- TO He-RICH TIDAL DISRUPTION CANDIDATES WITH A PREFERENCE FOR E+A GALAXIES (2014, methodology): “We find a WCS solution for the PTF09djl AO image using Aladin (Bonnarel et al. 2000) by comparing to 2MASS stars in the field, and register this image to the P48resampled SDSS image based on its WCS solution.”
THE GALACTIC O-STAR SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY (GOSSS). II. BRIGHT SOUTHERN STARS (2013, methodology): “A look at images available in Aladin and the 2MASS Point Source Catalog reveals that the separation is correct but the magnitude difference is significantly larger (over 2 magnitudes).”
The EFIGI catalogue of 4458 nearby galaxies with detailed morphology (2011, methodology): “2.1, better J2000 coordinates are obtained through the CDS Sesame name resolver service (Bonnarel et al. 2000; Schaaff 2004).”
The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS (2015, methodology): “Query results can be viewed within the OSA web interface or sent directly from it to VO-compliant desktop tools like ALADIN (Bonnarel et al. 2000) and TOPCAT (Taylor 2005), using the Simple Application Message Protocol (Taylor et al. 2012) standard.”