Division C WG Star Names
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Division C WG Star Names
Description
The Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) consists of an international group of astronomers with expertise in stellar astronomy, astronomical history, and cultural astronomy that will catalog and standardize proper names for stars for the international astronomical community. Names will first be drawn upon the extensive historical and world-wide cultural astronomy literature. The WGSN
will:
(1) establish IAU guidelines for the proposal and adoption of names for stars,
(2) search the international astronomical history and astronomical culture literature for star names,
(3) drawing upon this literature, adopt unique names for stars of scientific and historical value for community use following agreed upon guidelines,
(4) assemble, maintain, publish, and disseminate an official IAU star name catalog of names for stars and exoplanets.
While the first triennium will focus on incorporating “past” names (from astronomical history and culture) into modern usage, in future triennia the WGSN will act as the IAU WG responsible for defining the rules and enabling the process by which new names for stars and substellar objects of scientific significance can be proposed by members of the international astronomical community.
The naming purview for the WGSN is specifically for stars, substellar objects, and stellar remnants, but specifically excludes exoplanets (purview of EC WG Public Naming of Planets and the Planetary Systems), interstellar medium features (nebulae), and extragalactic objects. Exoplanet names will be catalogued as well so as to avoid duplication with star names.
- WG Triennial Report (2015-2018) - Star Names
- WG Triennial Report (2017) - Star Names
IAU Catalog of Star Names (last updated 10/8/2016)
Bulletin of the IAU Working Group on Star Names, No. 1 (July 2016)
Bulletin of the IAU Working Group on Star Names, No. 2 (October 2016)
Working Group Web Page
Working Group Members (12)
Under
Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
Chair
Eric E. Mamajek
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech
Astrophysics & Space Sciences Section
M/S 321-100
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena 91109
California (CA)
United States
Phone: +1 818-354-2153
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/mamajeksstarnotes/
Organization website: https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Mamajek/
NCA adherence: United States
Last updated:
December 19, 2016
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