Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 26-Sep-2023)

Result of query: info cati ATO$

Details on Acronym:   ATO
  
ATO    (ATLAS object)= (ATLAS) 
 Write:<<ATO  JDDD.dddd+DD.ddddA>>
 N:  about 500000000
Object:Unknown  (SIMBAD class: Optical = Optical Source)
  Note:The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS,    http://fallingstar.com) surveys the entire visible sky four times    every two days and collects high quality photometry on all objects    brighter than m∼19.
    We are about to publish light curves of ∼5 million variable stars,    submitting data to STScI and Vizier for dissemination.
    The variability of most of these stars was not previously recognized.
   Ref:=2018AJ....156..241H
     byHEINZE A.N.
, TONRY J.L., DENNEAU L., FLEWELLING H., STALDER B., REST A., SMITH K.W., SMARTT S.J., WEILAND H.
 Astron. J., 156, 241-241 (2018)

    A first catalog of variable stars measured by the Asteroid
    Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS).
oTable 4 : All objects with Class = MIRA, LPV, PULSE, MPULSE, CBF, CBH, DBF, DBH,    SINE, NSINE, MSINE have been ingested in SIMBAD.
oTable 4: <ATO JDDD.dddd+DD.ddddA> N=4726882.  Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/AJ/156/241/>
 Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5