Jun 15th, 2010| 02:38 pm | Posted by vlk
This question came to the CfA Public Affairs office, and I am sharing it with y’all because I think the solution is instructive.
A student had to figure out the name of a stellar object as part of an assignment. He was given the following information about it:
- apparent [V] magnitude = 5.76
- B-V = 0.02
- E(B-V) = 0.00
- parallax = 0.0478 arcsec
- radial velocity = -18 km/s
- redshift = 0 km/s
He looked in all the stellar databases but was unable to locate it, so he asked the CfA for help.
Just to help you out, here are a couple of places where you can find comprehensive online catalogs:
See if you can find it!
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Jul 14th, 2008| 11:55 pm | Posted by vlk
Hyunsook recently said that she wished that there were “some astronomical data depositories where no data reduction is required but one can apply various statistical analyses to the data in the depository to learn and compare statistical methods”. With the caveat that there really is no such thing (every dataset will require case specific reduction; standard processing and reduction are inadequate in all but the simplest of cases), here is a brief list: Continue reading ‘Reduced and Processed Data’ »
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