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

Result of query: info cati BRI$

Details on Acronym:   BRI
  
BRI    (B_j_,R,I survey)
 Write:<<BRI  BHHMM+DD>>  

        <<BRI  BHHMM+DDMM>>  

        <<BRI  JHHMM+DDMM>>
Object:QSO  (SIMBAD class: QSO = Quasar)
  Note:QSOs from the APM multi-colour quasar survey (BRI survey).    Acronym BRI is used when all 3 i.e. B, R and I UKST survey    plates are used.    Acronym BR is used when only the B and R plates are used.    1990: 1st reference from this survey, with the format HHMM+DD.    In this ref., N=10.    1991: 1st reference from this survey, with the format HHMM+DDMM.    In this ref., N=1.    2001: The authors have in preparation objects 'BRI' with    2 formats BHHMM+DDMM and JHHMM+DDMM.
   Ref:=1990Gemin..30....6I
     byIRWIN M.
, McMAHON R.
 GEMINI Newsletter Royal Greenwich Obs., 30, 6-None (1990)

    Yet more z>4 QSOs discovered using the INT.

o<BRI HHMM+DD> N=10
   Ref:=1991MNRAS.252p..61I
     byIRWIN M.
, McMAHON R.G., REID N.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 252, part no 16, 61-64 (1991)

    A star of exceedingly low luminosity.

o<BRI HHMM+DDMM> N=1: BRI 0021-0214
 Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)