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rare designator prefixes

(designator prefixes generally used for only a few objects)

These are prefixes used in designators of objects (e.g., stars or galaxies) that are used for no more than a few objects of current interest. Some are from a small survey or catalog, such as produced by/for a single study and others are from catalogs no longer in general use. Or such a designator might be for objects discovered in a particular stellar cluster. Papers occasionally coin such a prefix for the discoveries they announce, or such a prefix might be devised by someone to indicate an earlier study mentioning the object. In some cases, a prefix is based upon the author's name.

Such a designator is likely the result of an attempt to reference the discoverer or an author who found it of interest or otherwise cataloged it. Such an object may have been of little or specialized interest, but more recently has generated wider research interest, the obscure name being revived and effectively publicized. For example, extra-solar planet searches watching many stars spot exoplanets around stars previously of little individual interest, some of these exoplanets making them targets for additional research.

(objects,designation) https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/names-of-deep-sky-objects/

Prefix	Example	Survey/Catalog
A1689	A1689-zD1	rare designator prefixes	lensed galaxy in Abell Catalog galaxy cluster 1689 field	http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2506
Anon	Anon 0043-37	rare designator prefixes	for "anonymous"
AzTEC	AzTEC-3	rare designator prefixes	instrument	http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2779
Ben	Ben 1	rare designator prefixes	viewable galaxies	http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/similar/bennett.html
BR	BR1202-0725 LAE	rare designator prefixes	in UK Schmidt Survey B and R plates	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996ApJ...468..121S
BRI	BRI 1202-0725	rare designator prefixes	in UK Schmidt Survey B, R, and I plates
BrsO	BrsO 14	rare designator prefixes	Brisbane Observatory double star	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brisbane#Astronomer
BSO	BSO 14	rare designator prefixes	Brisbane Observatory double star	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brisbane#Astronomer
BSO	BSO 1	rare designator prefixes	"blue stellar object" - early quasar detection	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1965ApJ...142..412S
Camelopardalis	Camelopardalis B	rare designator prefixes	constellation name
Carina	Carina Dwarf	rare designator prefixes	constellation name
Cas	Cas 1	rare designator prefixes	constellation abbreviation
Christie	Christie's Leo Cluster	rare designator prefixes	for discoverer "William H. Christie" of Mount Wilson Observatory	http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/124159/pdf
Ci	Ci 20 483	rare designator prefixes	Cincinnati Obs.	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1930PCinO..20....1P
CO	CO-0.40-0.22	rare designator prefixes	molecular cloud
CP	CP 1919	rare designator prefixes	"Cambridge pulsar"	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1976Ap%26SS..44..479T
CTA	CTA-102	rare designator prefixes	CalTech Radio Source list A	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1960PASP...72..237H
CTB	CTB 22	rare designator prefixes	CalTech Radio source list B	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1960PASP...72..331W
EGG	EGG 30	rare designator prefixes	author	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1990PASP..102..166E/0000167.000.html
EGGR	EGGR 131	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1965ApJ...141...83E
Elias	Elias 2-27	rare designator prefixes	Three papers by Elias	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978ApJ...223..859E
FM	FM1	rare designator prefixes	Discoverer's/Author's initials	https://aas.aanda.org/articles/aas/pdf/2000/14/ds1831.pdf
Furuhjelm	Furuhjelm I 285	rare designator prefixes	aka FI-285, author	https://www.worldcat.org/title/recherches-sur-les-mouvements-propres-des-etoiles-dans-la-zone-photographique-de-helsingfors/oclc/2924170
GCIRS	GCIRS 13E	rare designator prefixes	"Galactic Center IR Source"	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1973ApJ...184..415R
GR	GR 8	rare designator prefixes	Discoverer's/Author's initials	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1956AJ.....61...69R
Haro	Haro 29	rare designator prefixes	Author	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1953ApJ...117...73H
HB	HB 2124-4228	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1988MNRAS.234..177H
HFLS	HFLS3	rare designator prefixes	Herschel FLS field
HLX	HLX-1	rare designator prefixes	"hyperluminous X-ray source"
Holmberg	Holmberg II	rare designator prefixes	Discoverer	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1950MeLuS.128....5H
HV	HV 2112	rare designator prefixes	"Harvard Variable" star catalog	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1946RA......1..385M
HZ	HZ 9	rare designator prefixes	discoverers' initials	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1947ApJ...105...85H
ISG	ISG 39	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials and G for galaxy	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986A%26A...167...11I
KDG	KDG 52	rare designator prefixes	Author's initial and GD for "dwarf galaxy"	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968SoByu..39...61K
KKH	KKH 060	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001A%26A...366..428K
KKR	KKR 25	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	https://aas.aanda.org/articles/aas/pdf/1999/05/ds1603.pdf
Kruger	Kruger 60	rare designator prefixes	(or Kr) discoverer	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1891AN....127..289B
KUI	KUI 75	rare designator prefixes	author: Kuiper, sometimes KPR
L	L 143-23	rare designator prefixes	1940s Luyten surveys	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1939BHarO.911...24L
Lalande	Lalande 21185	rare designator prefixes	author	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_Celeste_Francaise
LGS	LGS 3	rare designator prefixes	"Local Group, Suspected"	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1979ApJ...232L..11T
LSR	LSR J0822+1700	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207507
LSS	LSS 4067	rare designator prefixes	"Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way"	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1981IBVS.1958....1B
Luhman	Luhman 16	rare designator prefixes	(or LUH) discoverer
Maffei	Maffei 1	rare designator prefixes	Author name	http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/1968PASP...80..618M/0000619.000.html
Malin	Malin 1	rare designator prefixes	Discoverer	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987AJ.....94...23B
Mayall	Mayall II	rare designator prefixes	used in 1953 paper	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1953PASP...65...24M
MB	MB 3	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997AJ....113..981M
MCC	MCC 481	rare designator prefixes	observatory	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1943ApJ....97..381V
MGC	MGC1	rare designator prefixes	for "Martin Globular Cluster", Nicolas Martin, primary author	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607472
MlbO	MlbO 4	rare designator prefixes	Melbourne Obs. discovery
MLO	MLO 4	rare designator prefixes	Melbourne Obs. discovery
MR	MR 2251-178	rare designator prefixes	maybe for MIT Ricker?
MWC	MWC 349	rare designator prefixes	"Mount Wilson Catalog"	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1933ApJ....78...87M
Oo	Oo 2311	rare designator prefixes	author	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1937AnLei..17A...1O
Pr	Pr0201	rare designator prefixes	for open cluster Praesepe
PS	PS 130	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978AJ.....83.1090P
Q	Q0051-279	rare designator prefixes	for "quasar", referencing single survey	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993ApJS...87..451H
QQ	QQ2345+007	rare designator prefixes	double quasar	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1991AJ....101...66W
QQQ	QQQ J1432-0106	rare designator prefixes	triple quasar	http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0849
Reticulum	Reticulum II Dwarf	rare designator prefixes	constellation name
Rob	Rob 270	rare designator prefixes	author	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984AJ.....89.1229R
SAND	SAND364	rare designator prefixes	paper by "Sanders" re open cluster
SB	SB-WF 3572-1508	rare designator prefixes	Hubble Deep Field South SB field
Sextans	Sextans Dwarf Sph	rare designator prefixes	constellation name
SIPS	SIPS1259-4336	rare designator prefixes	catalog from 2MASS data	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412127
Sm	Sm 15	rare designator prefixes	author	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PhDT........10S
Smethells	Smethells 15	rare designator prefixes	author	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PhDT........10S
SO	SO025300.5+165258	rare designator prefixes	maybe "Skymorph object" or "stellar object"	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302206
SR	SR 12	rare designator prefixes	paper by Struve & Rudkjøbing of stars in Ophiuchus and Scorpius clouds	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1949ApJ...109...92S
SS	SS 433	rare designator prefixes	author initials	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/doi/10.1086/190437
Stein	Stein 2031	rare designator prefixes	double star discoverer	http://www.jdso.org/volume2/number4/Daley3.pdf
Steph	Steph 762	rare designator prefixes	author	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986AJ.....91..144S
STIS	STIS 123627+621755	rare designator prefixes	Hubble Space Telescope STIS instrument	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0012037
StKM	StKM 1-762	rare designator prefixes	author	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986AJ.....91..144S
Terzan	Terzan 5	rare designator prefixes	Series of papers re 12 globular clusters
TS	TS 335	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974A%26A....36..155T
U	U 494	rare designator prefixes	abbreviated	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1972AJ.....77..486U
UMa	UMa I dSph	rare designator prefixes	constellation abbreviation: Ursa Major
UPG	UPG 494	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1972AJ.....77..486U
VB	VB 8	rare designator prefixes	discoverer initials	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Biesbroeck%27s_star_catalog
VV2000c	VV2000c J195928.3+404402	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/w3browse/all/veroncat.html
VVO	VVO 230	rare designator prefixes	Van Vleck observatory	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1968AJ.....73..744G
Vys	Vys 3	rare designator prefixes	author, same as MCC	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1943ApJ....97..381V
Willman	Willman 1	rare designator prefixes	name of a discoverer	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410416
Wo	Wo 9540 C	rare designator prefixes	catalog author	https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/woolley.html
WT	WT 469	rare designator prefixes	author initials	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994A%26AS..105..179W
YBP	YBP 1194	rare designator prefixes	Author initials	http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0004
YGKOW	YGKOW G1	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980ApJ...241..507Y
z8	z8 GND 5296	rare designator prefixes	apparently for "z rounds to 8, GOODS North Deep"

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