Collaborations with Arne on Cataclysmic Variables (Abstract)

Volume 43 number 1 (2015)

Paula Szkody

Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195; szkody@astro.washington.edu

Abstract

(Abstract only) The start of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in 2002 marked the beginning of a 14-year-long collaboration with Arne Henden on the photometry of cataclysmic variables. Starting with the USNO Flagstaff station, and continuing with AAVSOnet, Arne and the AAVSO members contributed ground-based followup of SDSS candidate CVs to determine their orbital periods and characteristics. In addition, many scientific studies using spacecraft observations with HST, XMM, and GALEX were enabled and improved due to their contemporaneous ground-based photometry. Some of the primary results in the 39 publications resulting from this long term collaboration will be summarized.