Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 11-Mar-2024)

Result of query: info cati CRTS$

Details on Acronym:   CRTS
  
CRTS (Catalina Real-time Transient Survey)= (CSS) = (SSS) = (MLS)
Write:<<CRTS {CSS|SSS|MLS}YYMMDD JHHMMSS+DDMMSS>>
<<CRTS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS>>
<<CRTS {CSS|SSS|MLS}YYMMDD:HHMMSS+DDMMSS>> (not recognised by Simbad, but found in literature)
N: 12+6+1+47055+42+27+855+1043
Object:Poss. SN + Poss. CV + Bl? + V*  (SIMBAD class: Unknown = Object of Unknown Nature)
Note:The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) reports the discovery of optical transients with three telescopes: Catalina Sky Survey 0.7m Schmidt (CSS), Siding Springs Survey 0.5m Schmidt (SSS) and Mt. Lemmon Survey 1.5m Cass (MLS).

More info on the CRTS project can be found at http://crts.caltech.edu/

Updated lists of the transients discoveries are available at:
http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/catalina/Allns.html
http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/MLS/Allns.html
http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/SSS/Allns.html

Format JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS: introduced by Drake et al. (2014MNRAS.441.1186D) and Breedt et al. (2014MNRAS.443.3174B). In the latter publication, it is explained that "CRTS transients are assigned a detection ID in the form CSS|SSS|MLSYYMMDD JHHMMSS+DDMMSS [...]. Once the transient has been classified [...], it is assigned a CRTS identifier of the form CRTS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS."

Only the first references are listed here.
See also [DDM2009].

Ref:=2008ATel.1734....1D
byDRAKE A.J. , MAHABAL A.A., DJORGOVSKI S.G., WILLIAMS R., GRAHAM M.J., BESHORE E.C., LARSON S.M., HILL R., CATELAN M., CHRISTENSEN E.
 ATel, 1734, 1 (2008)
  Twelve CRTS Optical Transients.
o<CRTS CSSYYMMDD JHHMMSS+DDMMSS> N=12.
Ref:=2009ATel.2318....1D
byDRAKE A.J. , DJORGOVSKI S.G., MAHABAL A.A., GRAHAM M.J., WILLIAMS R., CATELAN M., BESHORE E.C., LARSON S.M., BOATTINI A., GIBBS A., GRAUER A., HILL R., KOWALSKI R., CHRISTENSEN E.
 ATel, 2318, 1 (2009)
  The First Optical Transient Discoveries from MLS.
o<CRTS MLSYYMMDD JHHMMSS+DDMMSS> N=6.
Ref:=2010ATel.2620....1D
byDRAKE A.J. , DJORGOVSKI S.G., MAHABAL A.A., GRAHAM M.J., WILLIAMS R., PRIETO J., CATELAN M., CHRISTENSEN E., McNAUGHT R., GARRADD G., BESHORE E.C., LARSON S.M.
 ATel, 2620, 1 (2010)
  A Supernova Candidate from the Siding Spring Survey.
o<CRTS SSSYYMMDD JHHMMSS+DDMMSS> N=1.
Ref:=2014ApJS..213....9D
byDRAKE A.J. , GRAHAM M.J., DJORGOVSKI S.G., CATELAN M., MAHABAL A.A., TORREALBA G., GARCIA-ALVAREZ D., DONALEK C., PRIETO J.L., WILLIAMS R., LARSON S., CHRISTENSEN E., BELOKUROV V., KOPOSOV S.E., BESHORE E., BOATTINI A., GIBBS A., HILL R., KOWALSKI R., JOHNSON J., SHELLY F.
 Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 213, 9 (2014)
  The Catalina surveys periodic variable star catalog.
oTables 3+8+9: <CRTS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS> N=47055+42+27.
Ref:=2014MNRAS.441.1186D
byDRAKE A.J. , GANSICKE B.T., DJORGOVSKI S.G., WILS P., MAHABAL A.A., GRAHAM M.J., YANG T.-C., WILLIAMS R., CATELAN M., PRIETO J.L., DONALEK C., LARSON S., CHRISTENSEN E.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 441, 1186-1200 (2014)
  Cataclysmic variables from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey.
oTable 1: <CRTS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS> N=855.
Ref:=2014MNRAS.443.3174B
byBREEDT E. , GANSICKE B.T., DRAKE A.J., RODRIGUEZ-GIL P., PARSONS S.G., MARSH T.R., SZKODY P., SCHREIBER M.R., DJORGOVSKI S.G.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 443, 3174-3207 (2014)
  1000 cataclysmic variables from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey.
o<CRTS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS> N=1043.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/ApJS/213/9
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/MNRAS/441/1186
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/MNRAS/443/3174/>
Originof the Acronym: S = Created by Simbad, the CDS Database

Details on Acronym:   CSS
  
CSS (Catalina Sky Survey)
***** Avoid the usage of CSS, prefer CRTS
Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)