Accurate Coordinates and 2MASS Cross Identifications for (Almost) All Gliese Catalog Star
Kane, Stephen R.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Ciardi, David R.; Stauffer, John; Plavchan, Peter; Bryden, Geoffrey; von Braun, Kaspar; Mizusawa, Trisha; Tanner, Angelle M.; Ramirez, Solange; Berriman, Bruce; Payne, Alan; Wyatt, Pamela
Abstract
We provide precise J2000, epoch 2000 coordinates, and cross-identifications to sources in the 2MASS Point Source Catalog for nearly all stars in the Gliese, Gliese-Jahreiss, and Woolley catalogs of nearby stars. The only Gliese objects where we were not successful are two Gliese sources that are actually QSOs; two proposed companions to brighter stars, which we believe do not exist; four stars included in one of the catalogs but identified there as only optical companions; one probable plate flaw; and two stars that simply remain unrecovered. For the 4251 recovered stars, 2693 have coordinates based on Hipparcos positions, 1549 have coordinates based on 2MASS data, and 9 have positions from other astrometric sources. All positions have been calculated at epoch 2000 using proper motions from the literature, which are also given here.