Unpredictable LPVs: Stars Dropped from the AAVSO Bulletin (Abstract)

Volume 42 number 1 (2014)

Matthew R. Templeton

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; matthewt@aavso.org

Elizabeth O. Waagen

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; matthewt@aavso.org

Abstract

(Abstract only) A number of LPVs have been dropped from the AAVSO Bulletin over its history going all the way back to the days of Leon Campbell and Margaret Mayall. Many of these stars exhibit very interesting changes in behavior as recorded in their long-term visual light curves; they were dropped not for being uninteresting but simply for being too difficult to predict. We present highlights from this collection of stars and their light curves, with suggestions on what could be learned from both existing data and new observations.