[vsnet-id 44] More on FASTT variables

[bas@lowell.Lowell.Edu (Brian Skiff)]

     Further to vsnet-id 43, Arne Henden notes that identification of the FASTT
variables with some 100 known stars was made in Table 3 of Henden & Stone
(1998 AJ 115,296).  These links have not been made in SIMBAD, but I did not
mean to give the impression that I made the identifications myself.  From
the several dozen cases I checked inter alia while making the match-ups with
IRAS and with the Wachmann SA 98 variables, it is clear that the GCVS
identifications were done carefully by Henden & Stone, and that dubious ones
were not listed.
     In re my mention of the quasar 2E 1013, Arne says the FASTT positions were
formerly taken with reference to a radio/visible astrometric reference frame of
extragalactic objects, and so quasars even more distant than z=0.92 were
observed regularly with the transit telescope.
     Finally, Arne mentions also that the second paper of the series, now in
preparation, will contain some 2600 new variables.

\Brian

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