Welcome to the Open Cataclysmic Variable Catalog! The goal of this catalog is to act as a centralized, list of all identified and candidate Cataclysmic Variables found from various ongoing sky surveys and data repositories. RA and DEC is listed under the Data column and can be accessed by clicking on the plus icon. If you use this data, please reference the cited sources of that data. We’d also appreciate if you referenced the paper describing this catalog. Thanks!
The table below is generated from JSON files produced by AstroCats
| Name | Aliases | Discoverer | Disc. Date | Max Date | Mag. | Mmax | Host Name | R.A. | Dec. | Host R.A. | Host Dec. | Host Offset (") | Host Offset (kpc) | Alt. (°) | Azi. (°) | Airmass | Vsky | Instruments/Bands | z | v☉ | dL (Mpc) | Type | E(B-V) | Phot. | Spec. | Radio | X-ray | References | Data | ||
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| Name | Aliases | Discoverer | Disc. Date | Max Date | mag | mag | Host Name | R.A. | Dec. | Host R.A. | Host Dec. | Host Offset (") | Host Offset (kpc) | Alt. (°) | Azi. (°) | Airmass | Vsky | Instruments/Bands | z | v☉ | dL (Mpc) | Type | E(B-V) | Phot. | Spec. | Radio | X-ray | References | Data |
Tips for searching: Individual column searches (the text boxes at the bottom of the table) support basic logical operators. Criteria can be comma separated to match multiple criteria, e.g. NGC, UGC in the host field would return entries that match one or the other. Surrounding a selection in double quotes will enforce an exact match, e.g. “Ia” will match Ia and not Ia P. Adding an exclamation point to your query will negate the query, e.g. !ASASSN in the name column will return all events without ASASSN in its name. For numeric columns basic limits and ranges are supported; for instance, to search for events with redshifts less than 0.2, enter <0.2 into the z column filter field at the bottom of the table. Our search syntax currently supports <, >, <=, >=, ranges (e.g. 0.2 – 0.4), and multiple simultaneous criteria (e.g. OR) when individual rules are comma separated (e.g. <0.2, 1.0 – 1.5).