Re: "Research"

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Mike,

OK here is what I think he wants.  If someone looks at the data for a 
particular star and discovers it is RA Vir or some such, then it would be 
nice if he could tell the data base.  Also it might be nice if John can put 
an entry in the data base that says this star is an EA and not worth 
looking at further or some such.  Possibly there should be room for 
extendable comments.  Every one that looks might want to add a 
comment.  See ApJ 288 345-348 or some such comment.  Just my 2 cents not 
knowing anything.

Of course even nicer would be for the data base to look at all the stars in 
the GCVS and tag the entries that are GCVS stars.  Since the positions of 
the GCVS may vary from our positions, then you need an entry that says 
something like "this star is near WG Sc and migh be it"  Our positions are 
probably better than many of the listed positions of the known 
variables.  Something that read through our data and compared it to the 
GCVS might do a great service by updating the positions of stars in the 
GCVS.  On the other hand this might be a very presumptions thing for me to 
say, but I have just been reading the comments by experts who say this or 
that variable is out of position.

Tom



At 08:05 PM 6/5/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Guys,
>
>John, I'm not getting what you are asking for.
>Could you give me a specific example?
>And also any thoughts on how I could best present the information to make 
>it easier for you.
>
>Thanks and sorry for being so dense tonight,
>
>Mike
>
>Tom Droege wrote:
>>Mike,
>>Some research.
>>Tom
>>  From JG
>>Hmmm, somehow previously mentioned objects are going to have to be
>>flagged or put in a discrete table or something just so people don't
>>keep rediscovering original stuff, although if no one has looked at
>>it despite it being known, that is not a bad thing. I know they
>>usually end up on a web page, but as more are found, that in itself
>>is tedious to double check, when compared to a lookup table /
>>variability flag (if in the database). Of course, somebody has to do
>>it. Always the problem ;)
>>
>>
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