DASCH Publications

• Sumin Tang et al., DASCH J075731.1+201735: Discovery of A Peculiar Slow Nova in A Peculiar Symbiotic Binary, arXiv:1110.0019 Oct 4, 2011
• Sumin Tang et al., DASCH on KU Cyg: a ~5 year dust accretion event in ~1900, ApJ, Vol 738, No. 1, p. 7+, 2011 or arXiv:1106.0003
• Mathieu Servillat, et. al. Correcting the Astrometry of DASCH Scanned Plates,ADASS XX, ASP Conference Series Vol. 442, Ian N. Evans, Alberto Accomazzi, Douglas J. Mink, and Arnold H. Rots, eds., p. 273-276. SUBMITTED PAPER, POSTER
• Edward Los, et. al. The DASCH Data Processing Pipeline and Multiple Exposure Plate Processing, ADASS XX, ASP Conference Series Vol. 442, Ian N. Evans, Alberto Accomazzi, Douglas J. Mink, and Arnold H. Rots, eds., p. 269-272. FULL PAPER, SUBMITTED PAPER, POSTER
• Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, Edward Los, and Silas Laycock, DASCH Discovery of Large Amplitude ~10-100 Years Variability in K Giants, ApJ, 710, L77-L81, 2010 February 10
• J. Grindlay, S. Tang, R. Simcoe, S. Laycock, E. Los, D. Mink, A. Doane, and G. Champine, DASCH to Measure (and preserve) the Harvard Plates: Opening the ~100-year Time Domain Astronomy Window, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Proceedings, Volume 410, page 101-110, 2009
• S. Laycock, S. Tang, J. Grindlay, E. Los, R. Simcoe, D. Mink, Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard. II: Initial Photometry and Astrometry,Submitted to AJ ,Nov 13, 2008
• Sumin Tang, Silas Laycock, and Jonathan Grindlay, Search for Dwarf Novae in DASCH Scans Near M44, Conference Proceedings of Astrophysics of Compact Objects, Huangshan, China, July 1-7, 2007
• T. L. Vogelsong, D. W. Gardner, R. J. Simcoe, J. E. Grindlay, Digitizing a Century of Astronomical Images Photonics Spectra, March 2007, p 83-85. (Registration required)
• R. J. Simcoe and J. E. Grindlay, Toward digitizing a century of astronomical full-sky images at Harvard, SPIE DOI: 10.1117/2.1200610.0433, Nov 1, 2006
• R. J. Simcoe, J. E. Grindlay, E. J. Los, A. Doane, S. G. Laycock, D. J. Mink, G. Champine, A. Sliski, An ultrahigh-speed digitizer for the Harvard College Observatory astronomical platesin Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIX, edited by Andrew G. Tescher, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6312 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2006) 631217, Oct 12, 2006,

DASCH Talks, Posters

• Sumin Tang et al., Exploring Long-term Variability of Stars with DASCH, Wide Field Surveys Lunch, Jan 31, 2012, Cambridge, Mass.
• Sumin Tang et al., Long-term Variables in the Kepler Kield Scans, New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy, Sep 19-23, 2011, Oxford, U.K.
• Jonathan Grindlay, The Ultimate Wide-Field TDA Survey: DASCH,Wide Field Surveys Lunch, July 21, 2011, Cambridge, Mass.
• Sumin Tang, Digital Access to a Sky Century@Harvard (DASCH): Explore Variables Over 100 Years,Very Wide Field Surveys in Light of Astro2010, June 13-16, 2011, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
• Sumin Tang et al., DASCH Photometry of KU Cygni: An 8-yr Dimming Around 1900, AAS 218th Meeting, May 23, 2011, Boston
• Sumin Tang et al., DASCH Variables in the Kepler Field, AAS 217th Meeting, Jan 11, 2011, Seattle
• Edward Los, A Web Interface for the DASCH Photometry Database, AAVSO Annual Meeting, Woburn Mass., October 30, 2010
• Edward Los, Limiting Magnitudes of HCO Plates, AAVSO Annual Meeting, Newton Mass., November 7, 2009
• Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, and Edward Los, DASCH: to Measure (and preserve) the Harvard Plates: Opening the 100-year Time Domain Astronomy Window, Poster Paper, IAU XXVII General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, August 2009
• Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, Edward Los, and Silas Laycock, ~100 yr Search for Large Amplitude Variables in DASCH Scans Near M44, Poster Paper, AAS 213th Meeting, Jan, 2009, Long Beach, Ca.
• Sumin Tang, Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard (DASCH), Time-Domain Session, AAS 213th Meeting, Jan 5, 2009, Long Beach, Ca.

Recent Research Utilizing DASCH Data

• Bertolami, M. M. et. al.NSV 11749, an elder sibling of the born again stars V605 Aql and V4334 Sgr?, arXiv 1111.2333 Nov, 2011
• Kijbunchoo, N.; Clayton, G. C.; Vieux, T. C.; Dickerman, N.; Hillwig, T. C.; Welch, D. L.; Pagnotta, A.; Tang, S.; Grindlay, J. E.; Henden, A.NSV 11154 Is a New R Coronae Borealis Star, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 123, No. 908, pp. 1149-1155, Oct 2011
• Zhu, L.; Qian, S.-B.; Mikulášek, Z.; Zejda, M.; Zvěřina, P.; Diethelm, R. Photometric Study of the Very Short Period Shallow Contact Binary DD Comae Berenices, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 140, Issue 1, pp. 215-223, July 2010.

Recent Research Utilizing the Plate Stacks

• R. Jurdana-Šepić, V.A.R.M Ribeiro, M.J. Darnley, U. Munari, and M.F. Bode, Historical Light Curve and Search for Previous Outbursts of Nova KT Eridani (2009) ,Astronomy and Astrophysics, 537, A34, 2012
• Majaess, D. J.; Turner, D. G.; Lane, D. J., Assessing potential cluster Cepheids from a new distance and reddening parametrization and Two Micron All Sky Survey photometry,Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 390, Issue 4, pp. 1539-1548.,Nov, 2008
• Marquette, J. B., et al., Discovery of a peculiar Cepheid-like star towards the northern edge of the Small Magellanic CloudAstronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 486, Issue 3, 2008, pp.891-898, Aug, 2008
• Turner, D; Rohanizadegan, M.; Berdnikov, L; and Pastukhova, E., The Long Term Behavior of the Semiregular M Supergiant Variable BC Cygni,Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118: 1533-1544, 2006 November
• Winn, Joshua N.; Garnavich, Peter M.; Stanek, K. Z.; Sasselov, Dimitar D. Limits on Eclipses of the Pre-Main-Sequence Star KH 15D in the First Half of the 20th Century, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 593, Issue 2, p L121-L124, October 2003
• Turner, D., The Power of Archival Astronomy, Presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, October 26, 2002