Using the Transient Surveys (Abstract)

Volume 42 number 1 (2014)

Arne, A. Henden

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

Abstract

(Abstract only) We are starting the era of all-sky surveys. While some, like APASS, have specific goals in mind (sky calibration, exoplanets, asteroids, and so on), others have begun releasing real-time alerts of interesting objects. The easily available surveys with alerts will be discussed, along with the kind of objects they are detecting and some hints about how to make use of the transient information.