[vsnet-chat 3170] Re: re Potential CVs

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

Re: [vsnet-chat 3169] Re: re Potential CVs

> It is more than possible to use this data to create folded phase plots
> and derive elements, either on a star by star basis or just tables of
> derived elements for many objects, exactly analogous to the SPVs often
> quoted in IBVS.
> 
> But this data is "visual", and not photometric, and I believe not
> acceptable on that basis.

  This is not probably true.  I bet no (or few) people have tried to publish.
[John, won't you try?]  This is not probably a matter of visual quality
observation, but the lack of such motivation may be a result of the great
number of observers involved in constructing the century-long light curve.
Does the new result belong to the person who analyzed the data, or to all
the observers who contributed?  This is one of questions repeatedly raised
when one wish to analyze these observations.  [And when the data from
AAVSO, AFOEV, HAA, VSOLJ are combined (as is recently done by several
researchers), one might ask why only J. Mattei is the privilaged co-author].

  The other reason why people are not so interested in revising GCVS LPV
elements may be that there is no apparent way to do that.  Some of my
amatuer colleagues have found corrections to the GCVS data, but they have
no idea how to reflect them to the GCVS.  Providing an electronic "GCVS
revision form" may provide a solution.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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