Re: GSC 3493-1324 -- what's next?

[Arne Henden <aah@nofs.navy.mil>]

In this "brave new world", the problem is that journals are flooded
with new variable stars.  They are rightfully requesting detailed
analysis in order to publish Yet Another Variable.  So just datamining
and getting photometry for a given star from NSVS/TASS/ASAS is not
sufficient.
   This further means that anyone starting a photometry project to follow
one of these stars has to be prepared to either do the analysis (such
as WD modelling for binaries), or else find a collaborator.  (It is
usually wiser to find the collaborator before doing much photometry.)
   Hard facts of life.  Self-publishing through something like the wiki
is probably the simplest alternative for the near future, but some
thought is due from the professionals as to how to handle miscellaneous
datasets for long-term archival and acknowledgement.
Arne
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Michael Koppelman wrote:
> In the olden days I would have observed this star for 3 months, filled 
> in the light curve nicely in multiple colors, got a bunch of ToM's and 
> written it up in an IBVS note. Although my photometry is better than 
> either TASS or the NSVS, the frequency of observations we have right now 
> are plenty to figure out the period (as has been demonstrated), variable 
> type and color.
> 
> Not that it matters all that much, but the way I interpret the facts, 
> this star was discovered by Patrick Wils based on TASS data. I know of 
> no one that looked at the NSVS data until it was reported that this star 
> is variable and probably an EA.
> 
> In terms of getting this star "reported", as it were, it seems we have 
> the following options:
> 
> 1. Write a traditional IBVS note.
> 2. Submit the star to the IBVS as a "new discovery".
> 3. Submit the star to the IBVS as a "new variable star".
> 4. Don't do anything at all.
> 
> For 1-3 we should probably look at TASS V-I and do a WD model and report 
> that along with the light curve. We do have an estimate of the distance. 
> In leu of color information and a model, it should probably just be 
> reported via #3 above. With model and such we could probably do #1.
> 
> In this brave new world of TASS/NSVS/ASAS, what do you think the right 
> thing to do is? The second question is: who should do it? It seems to me 
> that Patrick Wils has the right of first refusal.
> 
> Thanks!
> Michael Koppelman
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