Research Study on Standardization of Astronomical Terminology

目前的合作研究是寻求一种可能性，以确定一套天文学术语，作为天文学所有分支科学家的共同财产。研究的第一步是收集近二十年来主要综述论文和论文摘要中经常使用的英文书面天文学术语。个人电脑的文件中积累的字数约为一万二千字。在第二步中，将单词分为大约二十个不同的类别，并划分到不同的文件中。这些文件被发送给天文学不同分支的许多专家进行检查，以（1）提出相应的日本书面文字，（2）建议接受或拒绝我们最终的术语列表。每个文件都由三到五名天文学家检查。这些提案已登记在档案中，并将档案合并在一起，按字母顺序排列，以形成清单初稿。为了征求对初稿的意见，在天文先驱报上发表了公告，并于5月7日在京都举行了一次向所有成员开放的会议（目前合作研究的第五次会议），讨论了第四稿。10月16日在仙台举行了所有研究人员的最后（第六次）会议，并提出了第五稿。最终草案列表由首席研究员安排，在2月14日举行的协调研究员第二次12小时会议上对5200个术语进行了审查和批准。

The present co-operative research is to seek a possibility to identify a set of astronomical terminology to be used as a common property of scientists in all branches of astronomy. The first step of the study was to gather English written astronomy terminology of frequent use in major review papers and abstracts of original papers appeared in recent twenty years. Number of words were accumulated in a file of personal computer up to about twelve thousand words. In the second step, the words were classified into about twenty different categories and divided into different files. The files were sent to many specialists of different branches of astronomy to be inspected to (1) propose corresponding Japanese written word and (2) propose acceptation or rejection from our final list of terminology. Each files were inspected by three to five astronomers. The proposals were registered in the files and the files were merged together and arranged in an alphabetical order to make a preliminary draft of a listing. To call for any suggestion to the preliminary draft, an announcement was made on Tenmon Geppou (the Astronomical Herald) and a meeting (the fifth meeting of the present co-operative research) open to all members of the society was held at Kyoto on May 7 with the fourth draft. The final (sixth) meeting of all investigators of the research was held on October 16 in Sendai with the fifth draft. The final draft listing was arranged by the head investigator, was reviewed and approvedfor 5200 terminology at the second twelve hour meeting of coordinate investigators held on February 14.