[vsnet-chat 2152] Re: Missing CoD stars

[aah@nofs.navy.mil]

Mati Morel gave some instances where he found missing or
at least misidentified CoD stars.  I'm sure that most of
these older catalogs had errors, and it is the detailed work
like Mati does that discover the majority of the mistakes.
  The question I have is, once an error has been found,
how do you publish the errata (presumably IBVS or equivalent),
and, more importantly, how do you make sure the errata
gets associated with the original catalog?   Even with
IBVS, if you find only one or two errors, it seems hardly
worth publishing the results.  It would
seem reasonable for someone like the ADC to be a
'central repository' for the electronic version of the
catalog, and every so often generate an updated version.
(They probably do this already; however, I tend to use
the CDrom versions of the catalogs and those never change!)
Arne

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