[vsnet-chat 2829] Re: (fwd) FASTT variables TDFs (Greaves)

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As John Greaves has found, there is a FASTT-2 in preparation.
This one has about as many variables as in the first paper,
and will be submitted to AJ around June 1.  I will be presenting
a poster paper on the new variables at the AAS meeting.
  All variables should have a FASTT prefix, like FASTT 1602.
The original 'HS' prefix was pointed out to me to conflict
with another star list.  The FASTT-2 variables will
start with number 1603 to extend the original list.  I will
post the new list to the ftp site in May.
  This cross-indexing of variables is only going to get worse.
ROTSE is finally starting to data-mine their enormous archive,
and is finding thousands of variables.  The TASS group is just
about ready to start up the Mark IV survey, MISAO is going full-steam,
and we haven't even heard from LOTIS or TAROT or LONEOS, etc.
I have hundreds of fields from the parallax program that I am just
starting to datamine for variables, going very faint.
Especially in the Milky Way, proper identification of stars based
on coordinates is difficult.  I am personally having a hard time
keeping track of what has been discovered and what is new.  We
need to think of the best way to handle this overload, both
in adding new variables to some database and in promoting those
variables to their place in the GCVS.
Arne

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