DASCH Publications

• Mathieu Servillat et al. (2013)DASCH 100-yr light curves of high-mass X-ray binaries, arXiv:1303.1179 Accepted for publication in Proceedings of Science (INTEGRAL 2012), Eds. A. Goldwurm, F. Lebrun and C. Winkler
• Sumin Tang et al. (2013), Improved Photometry for the DASCH pipeline, arXiv:1304.7504, PASP, 125:857-865, 2013
• Sumin Tang et al. (2013), 100-year DASCH Light Curves of Kepler Planet-Candidate Host Stars, arXiv:1304.7503 , PASP, 125:793-797, 2013
• Edward Los (2012), Progress Report for Adapting APASS Data Releases for the Calibration of Harvard Plates, JAAVSO Volume 40
• Jonathan Grindlay et. al. (2012), Opening the 100-Year Window for Time Domain Astronomy, New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy: Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 285, p. 29-34
• Jonathan E. Grindlay and R. Elizabeth Griffin (2011), Historical Time-Domain: Data Archives, Processing, and Distribution, New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy: Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 285, p. 243-248
• Sumin Tang et al., DASCH Discovery of A Possible Nova-like Outburst in A Peculiar Symbiotic Binary, ApJ, Vol 751, No. 2, p. 99+, 2012 or arXiv:1110.0019
• Sumin Tang et al. (2011), DASCH on KU Cyg: a ~5 year dust accretion event in ~1900, ApJ, Vol 738, No. 1, p. 7+ or arXiv:1106.0003.
• Mathieu Servillat, et. al. (2011), Correcting the Astrometry of DASCH Scanned Plates,ADASS XX, ASP Conference Series Vol. 442, Ian N. Evans, Alberto Accomazzi, Jessica Mink, and Arnold H. Rots, eds., p. 273-276.
• Edward Los, et. al. (2011), The DASCH Data Processing Pipeline and Multiple Exposure Plate Processing, ADASS XX, ASP Conference Series Vol. 442, Ian N. Evans, Alberto Accomazzi, Jessica Mink, and Arnold H. Rots, eds., p. 269-272.
• Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, Edward Los, and Silas Laycock (2010), DASCH Discovery of Large Amplitude ~10-100 Years Variability in K Giants, ApJ, 710, L77-L81
• S. Laycock, S. Tang, J. Grindlay, E. Los, R. Simcoe, J. D. Mink (2010), Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard. II: Initial Photometry and Astrometry AJ, Vol 140, Issue 4, pp. 1062-1077
• J. Grindlay, S. Tang, R. Simcoe, S. Laycock, E. Los, J. D. Mink, A. Doane, and G. Champine (2009), 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
• Sumin Tang, Silas Laycock, and Jonathan Grindlay (2007), Search for Dwarf Novae in DASCH Scans Near M44, Conference Proceedings of Astrophysics of Compact Objects, Huangshan, China
• T. L. Vogelsong, D. W. Gardner, R. J. Simcoe, J. E. Grindlay (2007), Digitizing a Century of Astronomical Images Photonics Spectra, p 83-85. (Registration required)
• R. J. Simcoe and J. E. Grindlay (2006), Toward digitizing a century of astronomical full-sky images at Harvard, SPIE DOI: 10.1117/2.1200610.0433
• R. J. Simcoe, J. E. Grindlay, E. J. Los, A. Doane, S. G. Laycock, J. D. Mink, G. Champine, A. Sliski (2006), 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,

DASCH Talks, Posters

• Edward Los, Jonathan Grindlay, Sumin Tang, and George Miller (2013), The DASCH Public Data Release, AAVSO Annual Meeting, Woburn Mass, poster.
• Sumin Tang (2012), Exploring the Long-term and Extreme Variability of Stars, Harvard University Department of Astronomy Ph.D. Thesis, and Ph.D. colloquium slides.
• Sumin Tang et al. (2012), Exploring Long-term Variability of Stars with DASCH, Wide Field Surveys Lunch, Cambridge, Mass.
• Sumin Tang et al. (2011), Long-term Variables in the Kepler Kield Scans, New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy, Oxford, U.K.
• Jonathan Grindlay (2011), The Ultimate Wide-Field TDA Survey: DASCH,Wide Field Surveys Lunch, Cambridge, Mass.
• Sumin Tang (2011), Digital Access to a Sky Century@Harvard (DASCH): Explore Variables Over 100 Years,Very Wide Field Surveys in Light of Astro2010, , Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
• Sumin Tang et al. (2011), DASCH Photometry of KU Cygni: An 8-yr Dimming Around 1900, AAS 218th Meeting, Boston
• Sumin Tang et al. (2011), DASCH Variables in the Kepler Field, AAS 217th Meeting, Seattle
• Mathieu Servillat, et. al. (2011), Correcting the Astrometry of DASCH Scanned Plates,ADASS XX, poster.
• Edward Los, et. al. (2011), The DASCH Data Processing Pipeline and Multiple Exposure Plate Processing, ADASS XX, poster.
• Edward Los (2010), A Web Interface for the DASCH Photometry Database, AAVSO Annual Meeting, Woburn Mass.,
• Edward Los (2009), Limiting Magnitudes of HCO Plates, AAVSO Annual Meeting, Newton Mass.
• Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, and Edward Los (2009), 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
• Sumin Tang, Jonathan Grindlay, Edward Los, and Silas Laycock (2009), ~100 yr Search for Large Amplitude Variables in DASCH Scans Near M44, Poster Paper, AAS 213th Meeting, Long Beach, Ca.
• Sumin Tang (2009), Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard (DASCH), Time-Domain Session, AAS 213th Meeting, Long Beach, Ca.

Recent Research Utilizing DASCH Data

• Bond, H. and Kasliwal, M. (2012), NSV 11749: Symbiotic Nova, Not a Born-Again Red Giant PASP, 124:1262-1265.
• Szabó, R. et. al. (2011), Cepheid investigations using the Kepler space telescope,Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 413, Issue 4, pp. 2709-2720.
• Bertolami, M. M. et. al. (2011), NSV 11749, an elder sibling of the born again stars V605 Aql and V4334 Sgr?, arXiv 1111.2333
• 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. (2011), NSV 11154 Is a New R Coronae Borealis Star, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 123, No. 908, pp. 1149-1155
• Zhu, L.; Qian, S.-B.; Mikulášek, Z.; Zejda, M.; Zvěřina, P.; Diethelm, R. (2010), Photometric Study of the Very Short Period Shallow Contact Binary DD Comae Berenices, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 140, Issue 1, pp. 215-223.

Recent Research Utilizing the Plate Stacks

• R. Jurdana-Šepić, V.A.R.M Ribeiro, M.J. Darnley, U. Munari, and M.F. Bode, (2012), Historical Light Curve and Search for Previous Outbursts of Nova KT Eridani (2009) ,Astronomy and Astrophysics, 537, A34
• Majaess, D. J.; Turner, D. G.; Lane, D. J. (2008), 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.
• Marquette, J. B., et al. (2008), 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
• Turner, D; Rohanizadegan, M.; Berdnikov, L; and Pastukhova, E. (2006), The Long Term Behavior of the Semiregular M Supergiant Variable BC Cygni,Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118: 1533-1544
• Winn, Joshua N.; Garnavich, Peter M.; Stanek, K. Z.; Sasselov, Dimitar D. (2003), 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
• Turner, D. (2002), The Power of Archival Astronomy, , Presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the AAVSO