M 31 Field Brightest Stars Catalog

Thie database table is a catalog of 11438 stars in the field of M31 and 8778 stars in 2 nearby "foreground" fields. It is based on a set of Tautenburg Schmidt plates in U, B, V, and R taken by van den Bergh. The range of visual magnitudes of stars is 11.5 < V < 20. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/nasa.heasarc/m31stars
Related Identifier https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/m31stars.html
Related Identifier https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_m31stars&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://nasa.heasarc/m31stars
Provenance
Creator Berkhuijsen, Humphreys, Ghigo, Zumach
Publisher NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Publication Year 2026
OpenAccess true
Contact NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk <heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy