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Note: The MPA catalogue site is a mirror of the OU catalogue site . Any updates and changes are likely to appear on the OU site first, and will propagate to the MPA site typically within 1 week.
8 February 2010 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.13, with
literature taken into account up to 31 December 2009.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.12 are still available
in the
archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
14 September 2009 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.12, with
literature taken into account up to 30 June 2009.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.11 are still available
in the
archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
30 April 2009 Corrected typos (see bold entries below) in several references:
Callanan, P.J., et al. (9 authors) 2002, ApJ 574, L143
Kilkenny, D., O'Donoghue, ... 1997, MNRAS 287, 867 (Spectr1, Spectr2)
Shears, J., Boyd, D., Poyner, G. 2006, J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 116, 244
Wood, M.A., et al. (22 authors) 2005, ApJ 634, 570
Stark, M.A., et al. (7 authors) 2008, AJ 135, 991
Littlefair, S.P., et al. (6 authors) 2006, Science 314, 1578
Rau, A., et al. (9 authors) 2007, ApJ 664, 454474
Woudt, P.A., Warner, B., Spark, M. 2005, MNRAS 364, 107
23 March 2009 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.11, with
literature taken into account up to 31 December 2008.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.10 are still available
in the
archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
11 July 2008 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.10, with
literature taken into account up to 30 June 2008.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.9 are still available
in the
archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
25 March 2008 Correction of format inconsistencies and some typos in cbcat, lmxbcat, cbrefs, lmxbrefs, finder and the catalogue description. Thanks to Francois Ochsenbein (CDS) for pointing these out, and thanks to Tom Marsh for pointing out the misclassification of J1552+3201 (should be AC).
14 February 2008 Correction of formatting error in cbrefs, lmxbrefs, pcbrefs and finder.
11 February 2008 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.9, with
literature taken into account up to 31 December 2007.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.8 are still available
in the
archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
10 July 2007 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.8, with
literature taken into account up to 30 June 2007.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.7 are still available
in the
archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
5 Dec 2006 Typo in dec of KV UMA (lmxbcat) corrected (thanks to Miriam Krauss for pointing this out).
22 Nov 2006 Introduction slightly modified.
9 Nov 2006 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.7, with
literature taken into account up to 30 Sept 2006.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.6 are still available
in the
archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
7 Sept 2006 List of recent new variable names with corresponding alias names (two pdf files) under the "Who is Who" heading added.
17 May 2006 Corrected entries in cbcat (KL Dra: P = 0.017382, M1 = 0.76; V803 Cen: P = 0.018657), cbrefs (V803 Cen: new references for period), and pcbrefs (0040-4429, IQ Cam, 1432+1553 , 2345+3148: removed DD label under type); thanks to Carole Haswell and Tom Marsh for pointing out these inconsistencies.
2 Feb 2006 Links page updated. Corrected typos in cbcat (EY Cyg: M1 = 1.26, M2 = 0.59); thanks to Patrick Godon for pointing this out.
30 Jan 2006 Minor corrections: cbcat and related files (DN Lyn removed; BW Scl: type DN, WZ?; 233+3905: type DN, WZ?, SH?, ZZ?; CC Cnc: type SU; UZ Boo: orbital period); pcbcat (0320-1917: Spectr1 DA, not sdB); thanks to Boris Gaensicke and Tom Marsh for pointing out errors
18 Jan 2006 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.6, with
literature taken into account up to 31 Dec 2005.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.5 are still available
in the
archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
16 August 2005 cbcat: typo in period of J1427-0123 corrected (correct period is P = 0.02539 d); cbrefs: reference for EX Dra corrected [Harrison et al. 2005]; pcbrefs: typo in author name (Morales-Rueda) corrected.
21 July 2005 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.5, with
literature taken into account up to 30 June 2005. This release
contains a much updated and corrected
cross refererence (who's who)
file.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.4 are still available
in
the archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
31 March 2005 Reference for finder of V1208 Tau corrected [Motch, C., et al. (6 authors) 1996, A&A 307, 459].
9 Feb 2005 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.4, with
literature taken into account up to 31 Dec 2004.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.3 are still available
in
the archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
31 July 2004 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.3, with
literature taken into account up to 30 June 2004.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 - 7.2 are still available
in
the archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
12 March 2004 finder, 1323-6152: Parmar et al reference corrected; finder, BG CMI: Mc Hardy et al reference corrected (thanks to Francois Ochsenbein for pointing this out); CDS has now RKcat 7.2
3 March 2004 cbcat, J2316-0527: orbital period reference corrected
10 Feb 2004 Release of new edition, RKcat 7.2, with
literature taken into account up to 31 Dec 2003. Slightly amended
introduction.
The main data files of editions RKcat 7.0 and 7.1 are still available in
the archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
9 September 2003 Total number of CVs is 499, not 501. Several typos corrected (in lmxbcat: added J to J1806-2924; in cbrefs: U Sco: Matsumoto et al 2003, not 2002; Tappert et al 2003 is Vol 401, not 410; DI Lac: Moyer et al is in AJ, not ApJ). Thanks to the Francois Ochesnbein & the CDS for pointing this out.
16 July 2003 Minor reorganisation of the archive. We now provide data tables as well as reference files of previous versions.
14 July 2003 Release of major new edition, RKcat 7.1, with
literature taken into account up to 30 June 2003.
We thank Francois Ochsenbein for pointing out several errors in the
tables of RKcat7.0; these have been corrected in RKcat7.1.
The main data files of edition RKcat 7.0 are still available in
the archive.
The postscript files are still those of edition RKcat7.0.
30 May 2003 Full reference to published catalogue is Ritter H., Kolb U., 2003, A&A 404, 301
10 April 2003 cbcat, lmxbcat, pcbcat: added decimal point to EC, Incl, M1/M2, M1, R1, M2, R2 and corresponding errors to comply with format to be used by CDS
10 April 2003 lmxbcat, J1744-2844: correction of format in 2. object type
6 March 2003 Tiny amendments applied to paper that will appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
30 Jan 2003 Paper accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
24 Jan 2003 Links to VSNET and CBA added to Related links.
23 Jan 2003 Local links corrected (previous version didn't work properly in various browsers); thanks to Robert Greimel for pointing this out)
23 Jan 2003 Table headings added to online version; various typos corrected (thanks to Bart Willems for pointing this out)
21 Jan 2003 Catalogue submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Please note that the 7th edition of the CV/LMXB/rel. obj. catalogue supersedes the 6the edition (Ritter & Kolb 1998, A&AS, 129, 83). For reference, the main data tables of the latter will still be available online for the forseeable future.
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