[vsnet-chat 345] Re: Relevant or crazy CV project ?

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

> I wish there were a central location with info collected on individual
> stars.
> Such a database should keep a folder on each CV in the latest Downes,
> Webbink and Shara catalog. Each folder could contain e.g. the following
> fields:

   I once tried to compile and partly finished such collection of CV
information.  I have drawn more than 500 charts for the literatures and
compiled similar number of dicuments.  Unfortunately the document was
written in Japanese (though partly made accessible via WWW), and the
charts have no meaning in the present electronic age.  (The project was
done around 1987-1988!).

   I found, through this work, find it hard to keep up with the new
literatures, new outbursts, new findings ... I have to totally give up
around 1990.  However, as I had tried, someone in a rather small field
but with adequate enthusiasm can probably do a good job.

   As a some part of alternatives, we have recently set up Web pages of
individual variable stars, from which available VSNET information
(charts, WWW pages, light curves) are integrated and easily retrieved.
Although the system is still under construction and test operation, interested
persons may try.  URLs may be like

http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/gcvs/cygss.html  for SS Cyg
http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/gcvs/anddx.html  for DX And

The top page is

http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/gcvs/index.html

   The present system can automatically search our VSNET Web (including
updated light curves) pages to provide necessary links.  Simply to continue
putting information in pages of indiviudal CVs may certainly make this
online dictionary more robust.  We can probably provide ncessary Web space
for anyone's contribution to this project; the project is of course not
confined to CVs.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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