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[vsnet-chat 3256] Re: Altair
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:07:57 -0700 (MST)
- To: varsao@fullzero.com.ar
- From: Brian Skiff <bas@lowell.edu>
- Subject: [vsnet-chat 3256] Re: Altair
- Cc: vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
- Sender: owner-vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
The printed Hipparcos lightcurve for Altair shows exactly one point
in the eclipse, yet a period was determined just from this---not possible
without some other information. So it is easy to suspect this is a
spurious lightcurve (one of many in the Hipparcos dataset).
\Brian
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