Re: GSC 00279 00321 paper

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I would be happy to have Michael do this one solo.  If I am an author, then 
I would want to take the time to really understand everything about the 
paper.  I don't have the time to do this right now.  I am starting to 
accumulate variable star books and in a year or two I might be in a 
position to collaborate on projects like this.

OK, Arne, I am on a bunch of physics papers on things like rho physics 
where I have no idea about the material of the paper.  In these cases, I 
made substantial contributions to the design of the experiment.  I felt 
that I was contributing ideas that made the experiment possible.  I had no 
problem with being a part of a team where some members wrote the papers and 
some designed and built the apparatus and made it go.   To be more 
specific, in the case of other papers, I was on teams where I got to know 
the members over the years and grew to respect them.  For Michael, I just 
don't know him well enough yet to trust him to present something that I 
want my name on.  This is in no way a negative comment about Michael.  What 
I have read so far, I like.  I have done everything I can to encourage him.

I would be quite content with a reference to the tass site in Batavia IL 
(optional - operated by Tom Droege ) as a source for the data that 
triggered further study.

When giving e-mail addresses, we might consider always using the tass 
site.  I think I am droege@tass-survey.org.  I will test this right now and 
let the group know.  Ron Wickersham can set up anyone to have a tass 
address that just forwards to whatever your address is at the moment.

Tom Droege

At 08:39 AM 6/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
>   I think you should include Tom as a coauthor since you
>are using his data and listing the Mark IV as one of the
>telescopes.  At minimum, give the location of the Mark IV
>and Tom's email adr, since someone could be interested in
>contacting him directly for the dataset.  I know he does not
>care about authorship, but it is common courtesy unless someone
>strongly objects.