The REsearch Consortium On Nearby Stars ( RECONS ) is an international group of astronomers founded in 1994 to investigate the stars nearest to the Solar System - with a focus on those within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years ), but as of 2012 the horizon was stretched to 25 parsecs. In part the project hopes a more accurate survey of local star systems will give a better picture of the star systems in the Galaxy as a whole.
5-615: The Consortium claims authorship of the series The Solar Neighborhood in The Astronomical Journal , that began in 1994. This series now numbers nearly 40 papers and submissions. The following discoveries are from this series: RECONS is listed explicitly as an author on papers submitted to the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society since 2004. The RECONS web page includes
10-785: Is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal owned by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and currently published by IOP Publishing . It is one of the premier journals for astronomy in the world. Until 2008, the journal was published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the AAS. The reasons for the change to the IOP were given by the society as the desire of the University of Chicago Press to revise its financial arrangement and their plans to change from
15-518: The frequently referenced "List of the 100 nearest star systems". They update this list as discoveries are made. A list of all RECONS parallaxes is available, as are all papers in the solar neighborhood series and which illustrates data from the RECONS 25 Parsec Database . Key astronomers involved in the project include The Astronomical Journal The Astronomical Journal (often abbreviated AJ in scientific papers and references)
20-673: The journal to the AAS. The first electronic edition of The Astronomical Journal was published in January, 1998. With the July, 2006 issue, The Astronomical Journal began e-first publication, an electronic version of the journal released independently of the hardcopy issues. As of 2016, all of the scientific AAS journals were placed under a single editor-in-chief. On January 1, 2022, the AAS Journals, including AJ, transitioned to Gold open access model, with all new papers released under
25-709: The particular software that had been developed in-house. The other two publications of the society, the Astrophysical Journal and its supplement series, followed in January 2009. The journal was established in 1849 by Benjamin A. Gould . It ceased publication in 1861 due to the American Civil War , but resumed in 1885. Between 1909 and 1941 the journal was edited in Albany, New York. In 1941, editor Benjamin Boss arranged to transfer responsibility for
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