Databases and Searches
People:
Rahul Dave, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Patrick Ohiomoba, Steve Pember, Pavlos Protopapas.This project's role is to lay the foundations for providing research output from the TSC. We have developed a metadata (position, time, color, variability) database, across surveys, provides a useful compendium of temporal information on the brightness variability (or lack thereof) of most objects in the sky. We are currently developing multiple search interfaces to such a database, so that light curves satisfying arbitrary criterions may be searched for interesting objects. All searches will be subscribable, and web service outputs with and without light curves will be provided. A further challenge involves calibrating magnitudes across different color bands from different surveys.
Publications:
- Variable Stars (Who Cares?) (TALK)
- Scaling Astronomy (TALK)
Last Updated at: 2007-09-29 01:48 PM.