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Using the AAVSO International DatabaseA. Price 2nd Citizen Sky Workshop
Sept. 2-5, San Francisco, CA
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• 19,489,556 obs as of August 31, 2010 at 05:10UT
• Oldest: July 19, 1894 at 18:18 UT
• ~70% visual, 30% CCD, .003% other
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More fields were added over time as we expanded the database
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Bandpasses• Vis.: Visual observations• U: Johnson U band• V: Johnson V band (a.k.a. "photometric V")• B: Johnson B band• R: R band, usually Cousins R (Rc)• I: I band, usually Cousins I (Ic)• Sloan Z: Z band from SDSS set (Iz)• CV: Unfiltered with a V zeropoint Block• CR: Unfiltered with a Red zeropoint• J: J band (NIR 1.2micron)• H: H band (NIR 1.6micron)• K: K band (NIR 2.2micron)• N/A: Unknown• Rare/old filters:• RGB-Blue: Blue filter from the RGB set (144 obs)• RGB-Green: Green filter from the RGB set (3,801 obs)• RGB-Red: Red filter from the RGB set (522 obs)• Orange: Orange color filter (1,359 obs)• Yellow: Yellow color filter (482 obs)• Always expanding...
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Validation Flag• Two types of validation: full and
pre• G means the observation has
passed our validation tests. • D means that during the
validation phase it was flagged discrepant and should be used with extreme caution.
• P means it has only undergone pre-validation, meaning it was checked for typos and data input errors only.
• No flag means it has not been validated at all and should be used with caution.
• Details in Malatesta et al., (2005) JAAVSO, Volume 34, 1.
• Supervalidation
Help us!
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Validated
Validated + Discrepant
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On average, large visual datasets have 0.2=0.3 mag precision*Price, Foster & Skiff (2007)
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Dear Colleague• Authorship guidelines• Let us know so we can
promote your project and inform our members
• Not included, but important: If you have some, please toss some MONEY our way!
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Enjoy your data... everyone else is!
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