new topic: time domain bestiary

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Mon Apr 28 14:09:04 PDT 2014


There are additional classes such as microlensing and moving objects.  Variability can be pulsations or eclipses, etc and so forth.  So is there a complete-ish list of the different classes?
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On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Matthew Graham <mjg at cacr.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think you need to distinguish between things that vary (basically everything at some level) or things that are eruptive or explosive in some fashion. Which do you want to catalog?
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:
> 
>> So at the first VOEvent meeting we spent some time scribbling down a time domain bestiary - a list of different astrophysical phenomena that vary.
>> 
>> What is the best version of this now?  Is there a review article(s), for instance, that includes a full or partial list of different classes of things that go bump in the night?
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
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