Re: IBVS

[Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>]

Maybe I'm asking the obvious here but: what are the scientific 
goals of TASS? So far the emphasis has been on the engineering. 
Would it be correct to say the science goal was to make a large 
amount of data available for people to find and study new 
variables? Or is a catalog of TASS variables one of the goals? 
At one point do we start shifting the focus from engineering to 
science?

Maybe I should stop trying to publish and we could work on one 
big paper of new TASS variables? Some could include just TASS 
data and other could include our follow-up observations?

Just thinking out loud...

Michael K.

On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 01:21  PM, Tom Droege wrote:

> We shall see if we "infest" the variable star community.
>
> OK, until we find a better home, I suggest that we make these 
> efforts technical notes.  I suggest a new class ON for 
> observational notes.  If someone has a better suggestion for a 
> name I am open to it.
>
> My inclination is to generate a bunch of ON with what we have 
> so far.  We can update them as we go.  They will not be 
> complete curves, and most will not have a classification.  We 
> can start with a simple search to bring up ON within some 
> search radius.  I would name them by their position in some 
> standard way.  I would prefer names like ON 234.567 +7.3492
>
> I note that no one else seems to be doing simultaneous V, Ic, 
> though I think ASAS is planning on doing it.  Our data will 
> have a unique feature.
>
> Once we get some minimum number, then we will become a resource 
> that is searched along with everything else.  I figure that we 
> tried to join the community.  If they won't have us, then that 
> is OK, we can do it ourselves.
>
> For me, my natural inclination is to buck the establishment.  
> But I appreciate the value of standard ways of doing things.  
> Single locations for data, etc..  But this in encouraging me to 
> do this on our own.  If someone asks "Why did you set up yet 
> another data base?"  we will have the correspondence to tell 
> them.