Watchlists

Create New Watchlist

A Watchlist is composed of a set of locations in the sky, together with an association radius in arcseconds. These locations are presumably coordinates of sources of specific interest to you. Use a Watchlist to be alerted of transient events found in association with any of these sources. Your Watchlists will appear in the My Watchlists of the Watchlists index.

Watchlist Docs

Watchlist Name

Description

Association radius (arcsec)

Paste or Upload Catalogue List

Each row in the file should include RA and Dec in decimal degrees, a unique source ID and an optional source-specific association radius in arcsec.

RA, Dec, ID <,radius>
RA, Dec, ID <,radius>
...

active Dynamically match incoming alerts against watchlist

public Submit watchlist to the public gallery

A watchlist is generated from a set of points in the sky, together with an association radius. Each transient falling within an association radius of a watchlist source is flagged as matched against that watchlist.

Public Gallery

Watchlists submitted to the public gallery by other Lasair users. You can view matches or copy individual watchlists into your own collection.

Name	Active	Owner	Description	Count	Created
Abell clusters	✓	Lasair Resources	Abells catalog of galaxy clusters with 115 arcsec associatio ... more	2,712	2025-04-25 10:58:50
Cataclysmic Variables	✓	Lasair Resources	Catalog of Cataclysmic Variables (Downes+ 2001-2006) Vizier ... more	19,965	2024-08-02 08:04:29
Cepheids	✓	Lasair Resources	Cepheids from Gaia (2022)	15,021	2025-05-12 09:06:21
E+A Galaxies	✓	Lasair Resources	Galaxies liable to have a TDE. French & Zabludoff 2018 ht ... more	51,907	2025-04-25 10:51:39
GaiaWhiteDwarfsDR3	✓	Lasair Resources	Catalogue of white dwarfs in Gaia EDR3 (Gentile+, 2021)	1,011,124	2025-04-24 16:40:25
Golovin nearby stars	✓	Lasair Resources	Fifth Catalogue of Nearby Stars (CNS5) (Golovin+, 2023). Viz ... more	5,908	2025-04-25 10:56:38
Milky Way Globular Clusters	✓	Lasair Resources	The list of 167 galactic globular clusters areas with angula ... more	167	2025-10-31 10:36:13
MILLIQUAS: Million quasar catalogue v8	✓	Lasair Resources	The Million Quasars (Milliquas) catalogue, version 8 (Flesch ... more	1,021,798	2025-04-25 10:48:32
RR_Lyrae	✓	Lasair Resources	RR Lyrae from Gaia DR3 (2022)	271,779	2025-05-12 09:09:20
Strong lensing	✓	Lasair Resources	Strong-lensing systems from 4 surveys (Cao+, 2015)	118	2025-04-25 11:00:10

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