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Accurate coordinates and 2MASS cross identifications for (almost) all Gliese Catalog star

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Stauffer, John R.
Tanner, Angelle, M.
Bryden, G
Ramirez, Solange
Berriman, Bruce
Ciardi, D R
Kane, Stephen, R.
Mizusawa, Trisha
Payne, Alan
Plavchan, Peter

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University of Chicago Press

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We provide precise J2000, epoch 2000 coordinates, and cross-identifications to sources in the 2MASS Point Source Catalog for nearly all stars in the Gliese, Gliese-Jahreiss, and Woolley catalogs of nearby stars. The only Gliese objects where we were not successful are two Gliese sources that are actually QSOs; two proposed companions to brighter stars, which we believe do not exist; four stars included in one of the catalogs but identified there as only optical companions; one probable plate flaw; and two stars that simply remain unrecovered. For the 4251 recovered stars, 2693 have coordinates based on Hipparcos positions, 1549 have coordinates based on 2MASS data, and 9 have positions from other astrometric sources. All positions have been calculated at epoch 2000 using proper motions from the literature, which are also given here.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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2037-12-31
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