Back المكتب المركزي الدولي للبرقيات الفلكية Arabic Oficina Central de Telegrames Astronòmics Catalan Oficina Central de Telegramas Astronómicos Spanish دفتر مرکزی تلگرامهای ستارهشناسی Persian Bureau central des télégrammes astronomiques French Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams Italian 天文電報中央局 Japanese Astronomisko telegrammu centrālais birojs Latvian/Lettish Biro Pusat Telegram Astronomi Malay Centralne Biuro Telegramów Astronomicznych Polish
The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) is the official international clearing house for information relating to transient astronomical events.
The CBAT collects and distributes information on comets, natural satellites, novae, supernovae and other transient astronomical events. CBAT also establishes priority of discovery (who gets credit for it) and assigns initial designations and names to new objects.
On behalf of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the CBAT distributes IAU Circulars. From the 1920s to 1992, CBAT sent telegrams in urgent cases, although most circulars were sent via regular mail; when telegrams were dropped, the name "telegram" was kept for historical reasons, and they continued as the Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams.[1] Since the mid-1980s the IAU Circulars and the related Minor Planet Circulars have been available electronically.
The CBAT is a non-profit organization, but charges for its IAU Circulars and electronic telegrams to finance its continued operation.
- ^ History of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, retrieved 27 August 2011