Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 352
This version created on 05 October 2006

The Stellar Archive and Retrieval System


Babar Ali, IPAC
John Stauffer, IPAC
Solange Ramirez, IPAC
Bruce Berriman, IPAC
David Ciardi, IPAC
Angela Zhang, IPAC
Marion Schmitz, IPAC
Nian Chiu, IPAC

The Stellar Archive and Retrieval System (StARS) is an archive and
search facility for data on mainly nearby stars, with emphasis towards
planet finding research.  The database contains a variety of published
measurements of positions, kinematics, photometry, multiplicity,
activity, and other fundamental stellar properties.  The initial
population of stars is taken as the entire Hipparcos catalog merged
with the rest of the data sources.  These data sources (primarily
published catalogs and papers) are selected via literature searches on
a core group of stars.  These data are vetted by the StARS science
team.  StARS allows users to fully trace the data to the original
publication and provides an option to view the 'as published' value of
the datum.  There are currently 140,230  stars in StARS.  

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