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JAAVSO: Types of Articles

Research articles

Review papers (up to 10,000 words)

Articles containing reviews and summaries of astronomical information as well as new research (by invitation only).

Variable Star Research (up to 6,000 words)

Articles on any topic of variable star astronomy, broadly including non-stellar variables such as AGN, gamma-ray bursts, and variable nebulae. Examples include: new observations, analyses of existing data, theoretical and/or computational variable star modeling.

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Submitted by Matthew Templeton on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:53

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JAAVSO: Yours to Discover -- and Create

From John Percy, Editor, JAAVSO:

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Submitted by Matthew Templeton on Wed, 01/15/2014 - 10:57

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Data Usage Guidelines

Revised 2016 August 26

Jump to Formal policy: Acknowledgement for Using AAVSO Data
Jump to Dear Colleague letter from the Director on using AAVSO data

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Submitted by Matthew Templeton on Thu, 04/18/2013 - 09:27

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2012: The Year in Science

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Submitted by Matthew Templeton on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 13:27

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Data Usage Reports are available again

We are happy to announce that after a few months of testing, the AAVSO's Data Usage Reports are now available to all observers again. You may subscribe to these weekly reports by visiting this page:

http://www.aavso.org/apps/email/

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AAVSO International Database

Submitted by Matthew Templeton on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 10:00

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New results on FS Aurigae

The paper "Optical and X-ray Variability of the Peculiar Cataclysmic Variable FS Aurigae with a Magnetic and Freely Precessing White Dwarf" by Vitaly Neustroev and collaborators is now available on arXiv.org. The paper was co-authored by several AAVSO observers, and involves data taken during the 2010-2011 observing campaign.

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front page news

cataclysmic variables

Submitted by Matthew Templeton on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 13:00

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Eclipses During the 2010 Eruption of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpii

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cataclysmic variables

Submitted by Matthew Templeton on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 11:07

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How to report new variable star discoveries

What do I do when I discover a new variable star?

(Jump to Reporting Possible Nova Discoveries)

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Submitted by BSJ on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 15:41

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Alert Notice 425: Monitoring of HBC 722 and VSX J205126.1+440523 Requested

October 1, 2010: Dr. Colin Aspin (U. Hawai'i) has requested the help of AAVSO observers in performing long-term photometric monitoring of the two new young stellar objects (YSOs) in Cygnus, HBC 722 and VSX J205126.1+440523 (see AAVSO Special Notice #216).

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