Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 26-Apr-2024)

Result of query: info cati STACS JHHMM.m+DDMM$
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Details on Acronym:   STACS
  
STACS (Stanford Cluster Search)
Write:<<STACS JHHMM.m+DDMM>>
N: 500
Object:Cl of G  (SIMBAD class: ClG = Cluster of Galaxies)
Note:The Stanford Cluster Search is a survey for intermediate redshift galaxy clusters, z=0.4-1.0, using the existing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Supernova Cosmology Project deep image database and followed up spectroscopically with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. From THOMPSON K.L., Stanford University, 2001PASP..113..658W: first ref. with this acronym.
Ref:=2001PASP..113..658W
byWILLICK J.A. , THOMPSON K.L., MATHIESEN B.F., PERLMUTTER S., KNOP R.A., HILL G.J.
 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 113, 658-676 (2001)
  The Stanford Cluster Search: scope, method, and preliminary results.
oTable 2: <STACS JHHMM.m+DDMM> N=22.
Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)