Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 17-Mar-2023)

Result of query: info cati IRC$

Details on Acronym:   IRC
  
IRC    (Infrared Catalog)= (TMSS) 
 Write:<<IRC  +DDNNN>>

<<IRC  +DD NNN>>	(not recognised by Simbad, but found in literature)
 N:  about 20000
Object:(IR)  (SIMBAD class: Infrared = Infra-Red Source)
  Note:In the format the first two digits (the second is zero) stand    for a range in dec: -10 for -15 to -5, n... 0 for -5 to +5 n...,    +10 for +5 to +15.
    The preliminary catalog was published in 1969:    NASA SP-3047, Neugebauer + Leighton, Caltech infrared catalog.
    1975AJ.....80.1011H: Supplement to the IRC, classifying all    unidentified or apparently misidentified IRC sources south of    +5deg.
 Auth.:NEUGEBAUER G.+
   Ref:=1969IRC...C......0N
     byNEUGEBAUER G.
, LEIGHTON R.B.
 Calif. Inst. Technology, NASA,1969, 0-None (1969)

    Two micron sky survey : A preliminary Catalogue.

o<IRC +DDNNN> N=5612.
   Ref:=1975AJ.....80.1011H
     byHANSEN O.L.
, BLANCO V.M.
 Astron. J., 80, 1011-1025 (1975)

    Classification of 831 two-micron sky survey sources south of +5 °.

o<IRC +D0NNN> N=551+97+183.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as II/2B

Details on Acronym:   IRc
  
IRc    (Infrared compact)
  ***** Avoid the usage of IRc,  prefer [PF82]
 Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)

Details on Acronym:   IRc
  
IRc    (Infrared compact)
  ***** Avoid the usage of IRc,  prefer [RLK73]
 Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)

Details on Acronym:   TMSS
  
TMSS   (Two Micron Sky Survey)
 ** catalog: use IRC
 Originof the Acronym: L = Found in the literature