local_volume_database

DESCRIPTION:

Database of Local Volume dwarf galaxies and Milky Way star clusters. The database is complete for dwarf galaxies within ~3 Mpc. The planned limiting distance is ~10 Mpc (i.e. resolved stars with HST or JWST).
The star cluster collections are currently limited to old star clusters/globular clusters in the Milky Way halo and globular clusters/star clusters hosted by low mas dwarf galaxies.

The main data tables are located in the data/ folder in csv and fits format. There is a summary pdf document of the database at link.

Documentation: readthedocs

The tables can be directly loaded into Jupyter notebooks without having to download the repository:

import astropy.table as table
dwarf_mw = table.Table.read('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apace7/local_volume_database/main/data/dwarf_mw.csv')

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

If you use this in your research please include a link to the github repository (https://github.com/apace7/local_volume_database) and cite the database paper (once it is written). An example in latex is: This work has made use of the Local Volume Database\footnote{\url{https://github.com/apace7/local_volume_database }}.

INSTALLATION:

Todo.

The data is available as csv files (and other files)