Dear CBAers,I'm finishing up the formal paper on T Pyx, and wanted to get all the attributions, contact info, etc. down right. I attach the ASP conference-proceeding paper of 2013-4. The upcoming paper is an expanded version (conference proceedings always give you tight page limits). See if your contact info is correct and current.
I also attach a (compact) log of observations. Attached is one possible form. Some published logs have great clutter (start times of each observation, accurate to 0.1 second); that alone could run 50 pages. So I've prepared a log which contains the basic information, yet brief enough that readers will actually look at it. But you might have a better idea, and there could be errors here, too. You'll only spot the errors in accounting for your own work, but that will alert me so I can do some more digging and amend the table accordingly.
Other papers are forthcoming on IM Nor, V378 Peg, GD 552. The first two are simpler since the campaigns were much shorter. As for GD 552, it's back in the sky for us borealites, and since our network is much stronger now, I want to make one last try to get a PRECISE orbital period from our photometry. It's near 0.0713 days, but we could improve the accuracy by 100x if we could find the signal (it's weak, though the star isn't particularly faint, at 16.6). Anyway it's an excellent all-night target for northern observers, at least on decent nights. (It's the star labelled "Cep 1" in the Downes catalogue. There's a contaminating star, which you might - or might not? - need to include.)
I'll send the full UX UMa draft to you on Monday, when I get back to the city. (I'm spending the summer in the Catskill Mountains, which is why I can get a lot of writing done... but don't have all my toys with me)
Oh... and in answer to Joe U's query: *yes*, the UX UMa campaign is over. Here comes the Sun/And I say it's all right...
joe p
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TABLE 1 - SUMMARY LOG OF OBSERVATIONS
Year Nights/hours Observers
1995-6 14/85 Patterson
1996-7 7/29 Patterson
1997-8 8/33 Kemp
1998-9 8/29 Kemp
1999-00 6/26 Kemp
2000-1 5/24 McCormick
2001-2 4/18 Kemp, McCormick
2002-3 19/71 Rea, Kemp, Monard, Allen, Richards
2003-4 10/39 Rea, Allen, Monard
2004-5 7/24 Rea, Monard, McCormick
2005-6 23/90 Allen, Rea, Monard, Christie,
Moorhouse, McCormick
2006-7 30/99 McCormick, Allen, Monard, Bolt
2007-8 18/74 Rea, Bolt
2008-9 15/62 Rea, Monard, McCormick, Bolt
2010-11 7/24 Rea, Myers (before eruption)
2011 102/400 Oksanen, Monard, Lowther, Dvorak,
Bolt, Krajci, Hambsch (eruption)
2011-12 54/221 Oksanen, Monard, Hanbsch, Myers
2012-13 68/243 Oksanen, Monard, Nelson, Hambsch,
McCormick
2013-14 15/61 Monard, Nelson, Oksanen, Myers
2014-15 33/154 Myers, Oksanen, Monard, Dvorak
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Kemp 1.0/0.9 m La Serena, Chile (CTIO)
Oksanen 0.3 m Atacama, Chile (Caisey
Harlingten Observatory)
Rea 0.35 m Nelson, NZ
McCormick 0.35 m Auckland, NZ
Monard 0.35 m Klein-Karoo Observatory
Hambsch 0.35 m Atacama, Chile (Caisey
Harlingten Observatory)
Allen 0.4 m Nelson, NZ
Nelson Melbourne, AU
Christie 0.4 m Auckland, NZ
Bolt 0.35 m Perth, AU
Dvorak 0.3 m Orlando, FL (USA)
Patterson 1.0/0.75 m CTIO/SAAO
Myers 0.42 m Siding Spring, AU
Richards Melbourne, AU
Lowther
Krajci 0.35 m Cloudcroft, NM (USA)
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