This vocabulary is based on a set of keywords maintained jointly by the publishers of the journals Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) and the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), and updated on an annual basis. The different journals are slightly inconsistent with each other; we have rather arbitrarily used the 2008 list from the A&A web site. The intended usage of the vocabulary is to tag articles with descriptive keywords to aid searching for articles on a particular topic. The keywords are organised into categories which have been modelled as hierarchical relationships. Additionally, some of the keywords are grouped into collections which has been mirrored in the SKOS version. The vocabulary contains no definitions or related links as these are not provided in the original keyword list, and only a handful of alternative labels and scope notes that are present in the original keyword list.
Vocabulary for Astronomy & Astrophysics Journal keywords (Version 20081104)
Acceleration of particles
Accretion, accretion disks
Astrobiology
Astrochemistry
Astrometry
Astrometry and celestial mechanics
Astronomical data bases
Astronomical data bases: miscellaneous
Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques
Atlases
Atmospheric effects
Atomic data
Atomic processes
Balloons
Black hole physics
Catalogs
Celestial mechanics
Chaos
Comets: general
Conduction
Convection
Cosmology
CMB
Cosmic microwave background
Cosmological parameters
Dark matter
Diffuse radiation
Distance scale
Early universe
Large-scale structure of Universe
Cosmology: miscellaneous
Cosmology: observations
Cosmology: theory
Dense matter
Diffusion
Earth
Eclipses
Elementary particles
Ephemerides
Equation of state
Galaxies
Galaxies: abundances
Galaxies: active
BL Lacertae objects: general
Galaxies: bulges
Galaxies: clusters: general
Cooling flows
Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Galaxies: dwarf
Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: formation
Galaxies: fundamental parameters
Classification, colors, luminosities, masses, radii, temperatures, etc.
Galaxies: general
Galaxies: halos
Galaxies: high-redshift
Galaxies: interactions
IGM
Intergalactic medium
Galaxies: irregular
Galaxies: ISM
Galaxies: jets
Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
Local Group
Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function
LMC
SMC
Magellanic Clouds
Galaxies: magnetic fields
Galaxies: nuclei
Galaxies: peculiar
Galaxies: photometry
Quasars: absorption lines
Quasars: emission lines
Quasars: general
Galaxies: Seyfert
Galaxies: spiral
Galaxies: star clusters
Galaxies: starburst
Galaxies: statistics
Galaxies: stellar content
Galaxies: structure
Galaxy: abundances
Galaxy: bulge
Galaxy: center
Galaxy: disk
Galaxy: evolution
Galaxy: formation
Galaxy: fundamental parameters
Galaxy: general
Globular clusters: general
Galaxy: halo
Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
Galaxy: nucleus
Open clusters and associations:general
Solar neighbourhood
Galaxy: stellar content
Galaxy: structure
GRB
Gamma rays: bursts
Gamma rays: observations
Gamma rays: theory
Gravitation
Gravitational lensing
Gravitational waves
Hydrodynamics
Infrared: galaxies
Infrared: general
Infrared: ISM
Infrared: solar system
Infrared: stars
Instabilities
Instrumentation: adaptive optics
Instrumentation: detectors
Instrumentation: high angular resolution
Instrumentation: interferometers
Instrumentation: miscellaneous
Instrumentation: photometers
Instrumentation: polarimeters
Instrumentation: spectrographs
Interplanetary medium
ISM, nebulae
Interstellar medium, nebulae
ISM: abundances
ISM: atoms
ISM: bubbles
ISM: clouds
Cosmic rays
Dust, extinction
Evolution
ISM: general
Herbig-Haro objects
HII regions
ISM: jets and outflows
ISM: kinematics and dynamics
ISM: lines and bands
ISM: magnetic fields
ISM: molecules
Planetary nebulae: general
Reflection nebulae
ISM: structure
SNR
ISM: supernova remnants
Kuiper Belt
Light pollution
Line: formation
Line: identification
Line: profiles
Magnetic fields
Magnetohydrodynamics
MHD
Masers
Meteors, meteoroids
Methods: analytical
Methods: data analysis
Methods: laboratory
Methods: miscellaneous
Methods: N-body simulations
Methods: numerical
Methods: observational
Methods: statistical
Minor planets, asteroids
Molecular data
Molecular processes
Moon
Neutrinos
Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances
Occultations
Oort Cloud
Physical data and processes
Planets and satellites: formation
Planets and satellites: general
Planets: rings
Plasmas
Polarization
Radiation mechanisms: general
Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
Radiation mechanisms: thermal
Radiative transfer
Radio continuum: galaxies
Radio continuum: general
Radio continuum: ISM
Radio continuum: solar system
Radio continuum: stars
Radio lines: galaxies
Radio lines: general
Radio lines: ISM
Radio lines: solar system
Radio lines: stars
Reference systems
Relativity
Scattering
Shock waves
Site testing
Solar system
Solar system: formation
Solar system: general
Sources as a function of wavelength
Space vehicles
Space vehicles: instruments
Stars
Stars: abundances
Stars: activity
AGB
post-AGB
Stars: AGB and post-AGB
Stars: atmospheres
Binaries: close
Binaries: eclipsing
Binaries: general
Binaries: spectroscopic
Binaries: symbiotic
Binaries: visual
Blue stragglers
Stars: carbon
Stars: chemically peculiar
Stars: chromospheres
Circumstellar matter
Stars: coronae
Stars: distances
star.variable.UGem-class
Stars: dwarf novae
Stars: early-type
Stars: emission-line, Be
Stars: evolution
Stars: flare
Stars: formation
Stars: fundamental parameters
Stars: general
Color-Magnitude diagrams
H-R and C-M diagrams
H-R and CM diagrams
HR and C-M diagrams
HR and CM diagrams
Hertzsprung-Russel and Color-Magnitude diagrams
Hertzsprung-Russel diagrams
Hertzsprung-Russell and C-M diagrams
Stars: horizontal-branch
Stars: imaging
Stars: interiors
Stars: kinematics
Stars: late-type
Stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs
Stars: luminosity function, mass function
Stars: magnetic fields
Stars: mass-loss
Stars: neutron
Novae, cataclysmic variables
Stars: oscillations
Stars: peculiar
Planetary systems
Planetary systems: formation
proplyd
Planetary systems: protoplanetary disks
Stars: Population II
PMS
Stars: pre-main sequence
Pulsars: general
Stars: rotation
Starspots
Stars: statistics
Subdwarfs
Supergiants
Supernovae: general
Cepheids
Delta Sct
Stars: variables: general
Stars: variables: RR Lyr
White dwarfs
Stars: winds, outflows
Stars: Wolf-Rayet
Stellar dynamics
Submillimeter
Sun: abundances
Sun: activity
Sun: atmosphere
Sun: chromosphere
Sun: corona
CMEs
Sun: coronal mass ejections
Sun: evolution
Sun: faculae, plages
Sun: filaments
Sun: flares
Sun: fundamental parameters
Sun: general
Sun: granulation
Sun: helioseismology
Sun: infrared
Sun: interior
Sun: magnetic fields
Sun: oscillations
Sun: particle emission
Sun: photosphere
Sun: prominences
Sun: radio radiation
Sun: rotation
Solar wind
Solar-terrestrial relations
Sunspots
Sun: transition region
Sun: UV radiation
Sun: X-rays, gamma rays
Surveys
Techniques: high angular resolution
Techniques: image processing
Techniques: interferometric
Techniques: miscellaneous
Techniques: photometric
Techniques: polarimetric
Techniques: radar astronomy
Techniques: radial velocities
Techniques: spectroscopic
Telescopes
The Galaxy
The Sun
Time
Turbulence
Ultraviolet: galaxies
Ultraviolet: general
Ultraviolet: ISM
Ultraviolet: solar system
Ultraviolet: stars
Waves
X-rays: binaries
X-rays: bursts
X-rays: diffuse background
X-rays: galaxies
X-rays: galaxies: clusters
X-rays: general
X-rays: ISM
X-rays: stars
Line
Radiation mechanisms
Instrumentation
Methods
Techniques
Comets
Comets: individual
Planets
Planets and satellites
Planets and satellites: individual
Stars: Binaries
Stars: individual
Stars: Planetary systems
Stars: Pulsars
(Stars:) pulsars: individual
Stars: Supernovae
(Stars:) supernovae: individual
Stars: Variables
Interstellar medium
ISM: individual objects (except planetary nebulae)
ISM: Planetary nebulae
(ISM:) planetary nebulae: individual
Galaxy
Galaxy: Globular clusters
(Galaxy:) globular clusters: individual
Galaxy: Open clusters and associations
(Galaxy:) open clusters and associations:individual
Galaxies: BL Lacertae objects
(Galaxies:) BL Lacertae objects: individual
Galaxies: Clusters
Galaxies: clusters: indiviuals
Galaxies: individual
Galaxies: Quasars
(Galaxies:) quasars: individual
Gamma rays
Infrared
Radio continuum
Radio lines
Ultraviolet
X-rays
X-rays: individuals