Volume 44 number 2 — 2016

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Articles in This Issue

Editorial

• The Publishing Landscape: It’s the “Wild West” Out There

  John R. Percy

Variable Star Research

• CCD Photometry and Roche Modeling of the Eclipsing Overcontact Binary Star System TYC 01963-0488-1

  Kevin B. Alton

• Studies of the Long Secondary Periods in Pulsating Red Giants

  John R. Percy, Emily Deibert

• First Photometric Analysis of the Solar-Type Binary, V428 Cep (NSV 395), in the Field of NGC 188

  Ronald G. Samec, Jeremy Clark, David Maloney, Daniel B. Caton, Danny R. Faulkner

• New Observations of V530 Andromedae: a Critical Contact Binary?

  Ronald G. Samec, Heather Chamberlain, Daniel B. Caton, Danny R. Faulkner, Jeremy D. Clark, Travis Shebs

• The High Amplitude delta Scuti Star AD Canis Minoris

  Roy Andrew Axelsen, Tim Napier-Munn

• UY Puppis—A New Anomalous Z Cam Type Dwarf Nova

  Rod Stubbings, Mike Simonsen

• Discovery and Photometric Analysis of the δ Scuti Variable TYC 2168-132-1

  Michael D. Joner, Eric G. Hintz, Giorgio Corfini

• A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Binary Star PY Boötis

  Edward J. Michaels

• Two High-Latitude UXORs

  Michael Poxon

Instruments, Methods, and Techniques

• Crowded Fields Photometry with DAOPHOT

  Elisabetta Artusi, Giancarlo Conselvan, Antonio Tegon, Danilo Zardin

Variable Star Data

• 50 forgotten Miras

  Thomas Karlsson, Hans Bengtsson, Tomas Wikander, Gustav Holmberg, Robert Wahlström, Chris Allen

• Recent Minima of 194 Eclipsing Binary Stars

  Gerard Samolyk

Reviews

• Variable Stars with the Kepler Space Telescope

  László Molnár, Róbert Szabó, Emese Plachy

• Period Changes and Evolution in Pulsating Variable Stars

  Hilding R. Neilson, John R. Percy, Horace A. Smith

Abstracts

• Learning from Pulsating Stars: Progress over the Last Century (Abstract)

  Horace Smith

• Miras, Mass Loss, and the Ultimate Fate of the Earth (Abstract)

  Lee Anne Willson

• A Detailed Survey of Pulsating Variables in Five Globular Clusters (Abstract)

  Brian W. Murphy

• Establishing a CCD Light Curve For BW Vul (Abstract)

  David Cowall

• Studying RR Lyrae Stars with Kepler/K2 (Abstract)

  Charles Kuehn

• Unsolved Problems for Main-Sequence Variable Stars Revealed by the NASA Kepler Data (Abstract)

  Joyce Ann Guzik

• Type C Semiregulars and Irregulars: the Forgotten Pulsating Luminous Stars (Abstract)

  David G. Turner

• Identification of ASAS Ellipsoidal Variables Misclassified as Miscellaneous in VSX (Poster abstract)

  Kristine Larsen, Corwin Hoover

• Utilizing the AAVSO’s Variable Star Index (VSX) in Undergraduate Research Projects (Poster abstract)

  Kristine Larsen

• RR Lyrae in Sagittarius Dwarf Globular Clusters (Poster abstract)

  Barton J. Pritzl, Thomas J. Gehrman, Ellyn Bell, Ricardo Salinas, Horace A. Smith, Maircio Catelan

• A Photometric Study of Three Eclipsing Binary Stars (Poster abstract)

  Austin Ryan

• First Look at Photometric Reduction via Mixed-Model Regression (Poster abstract)

  Eric Dose

• Studying Variable Stars with Undergraduate Students at the University of Nebraska Kearney (Abstract)

  William Lee Powell Jr.

• Exoplanets and Multiverses (Abstract)

  Virginia Trimble

• SLAS Library Telescope Program (Abstract)

  James Small

• Three New Z Cam Stars (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• Photometry and Spectroscopy of V2455 Cygni (Abstract)

  Michael D. Joner

• Converting Differential Photometry Results to the Standard System using Transform Generator and Transform Applier (Abstract)

  Marco Ciocca

• V571 Lyr is a Multiple System (Abstract)

  Gary Billings

• The Mystery of V523 Lyrae (Abstract)

  Mike Simonsen

• Eggen Card Project: Progress and Plans (Abstract)

  George Silvis

Errata

• Erratum. Current Light Elements of the δ Scuti Star V393 Carinae

  Roy Andrew Axelsen

Index

• Index to Volume 44