TASS Publications

This page lists papers which mention TASS in some way -- those with names in bold face focus on TASS specifically.

• TASS - The Amateur Sky Survey, by Tom Droege et al. A poster paper contributed at the Summer 1997 meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The abstract is shown in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol 190, 30.10, 1997.

• First Results of The Amateur Sky Survey, by Michael Richmond. A poster paper contributed at the Summer 1997 meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The abstract is shown in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol 190, 33.05, 1997. Much of the presentation is based on TASS Technical Note 31.

• The Dial-Up Sky, by Ann Finkbeiner. A short article in Science, vol 278, 7 Nov 1997, p. 1010, which describes the many large-scale astronomical surveys now operating or planned for the near future. There is a small sidebar on TASS.

• Boldness: The Amateur Sky Survey, by Glenn Gombert and Tom Droege. A feature article in the Feb 1998 issue of Sky and Telescope; lots of pictures and history.

• New or Undesignated Variables a paper by Glenn Gombert based on data from the Dayton triplet. See issue 4575 of the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars;
  • Postscript version of Glenn's paper
  • compressed Postscript version of Glenn's paper (from IBVS site)
  • TeX source version of Glenn's paper (from IBVS site)
  You might also want to see the IBVS home page

• The Online Search for the Killer Comet is a science fair project by Margaret Konopacki. This junior at Dallastown, PA, High School worked with Marty Pittinger and Nick Beser at JHU/APL during the 1997-1998 school year. She figured out how most effectively to compare existing sky catalogs against TASS images by eye to search for satellites, comets and asteroids. Her work earned the following awards:
  • First Place in her high school's "Earth And Space" category
  • Reserve Grand Champion in her high school's fair
  • a Certificate of Achievement at her high school's fair
  • $100 from Baker Refractories, a local company
  • First Place in the Pennsylvania State Science Fair "Earth and Space" category
  • Certificate of Achievement from the Pennsylvania State Fair judges
  • an award from the Association of Women Geoscientists

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• Stars in their eyes, by Marcus Chown. A feature article in the July 4, 1998, issue of New Scientist. The article summarizes the project well, and includes some pretty pictures of the night sky (not taken with TASS cameras, though).

• Accurate Position Estimates For Known Variables a paper by Glenn Gombert based on data from the Dayton triplet. See paper 4609 in the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars.
  • Postscript version of Glenn's paper
  • compressed Postscript version of Glenn's paper (from IBVS site)
  • TeX source version of Glenn's paper (from IBVS site)
  You might also want to see the IBVS home page

• GSC 4666:209 is a new variable a paper by Glenn Gombert based on data from the Dayton triplet. See paper 4653 in the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars.
  • Postscript version of Glenn's paper
  • compressed Postscript version of Glenn's paper (from IBVS site)
  • TeX source version of Glenn's paper (from IBVS site)
  You might also want to see the IBVS home page

• TASS: Se acabó la astronomía visual, by Victor R. Ruiz. An article about TASS in the Spanish-language magazine Astronomia Digital.

• BD -02d 5436, a New UU Herculis Variable? a paper by Glenn Gombert based on data from the Dayton triplet. See paper 4709 in the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars.
  • Postscript version of Glenn's paper
  • choice of several paper formats at the IBVS site

• "IRAS 19035-0134: A New Mira Variable," a paper by B. Hassforther and U. Bastian, published as paper 4742 in the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars. They use several years of observations by the Stardial instrument, and a small amount of TASS data, to show that IRAS 19035-0134 varies between mag 10 and 12.5 with a period of about 250 days.
  • Postscript version of the paper
  • choice of several paper formats at the IBVS site

• TASS Mark III Photometric Survey of the Celestial Equator describes the Mark III cameras, operation, software, and the tenxcat catalog. You can find a copy of the preprint on the astro-ph preprint server, astro-ph 9910267. The paper itself appears in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol 112, p. 397 (March 2000) . If you aren't allowed to read the PASP link, you can look at local copies of the paper and figures.

• The 24 Nov 2001 issue of The Economist mentions TASS briefly in an article titled Things that go flash in the night.

• GSC 05178_01376: A New W UMa Variable a paper by S. W. Dvorak, appears in issue 4945 of the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars. This star has been given the name MU Aqr.

• GSC 00279-00321: A New W UMa Eclipsing Binary a paper by Michael Koppelman and Dirk Terrell, appears in issue 5299 of the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars.

• The First Byurakan Spectral Sky Survey contains spectral measurements of stars near the equator. Brian Skiff has produced enhanced catalogs of red stars from the FBS, with accurate positions, cross-IDs, and (when available) magnitudes from the Mark III tenxcat. You can find the enhanced catalogs at the Vizier site:
  • 11'th list in zone -7 < Dec < -3
  • 12'th list in zone -7 < Dec < -3

• NSV 10892 is a W UMa Eclipsing Binary by Michael Koppelman, Doug West, and Aaron Price appears in issue 5327 of the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars.

• Confirmation of Variability of Bidelman-MacConnell Suspected Variables by Patrick Wils appears in issue 5457 of the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars.

• Confirmation of Variability of FASTT Suspected Variables by John Greaves and Patrick Wils appears in issue 5458 of the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars.

• New Elements for 80 Eclipsing Binaries II. by Sebastian Otero and Federico Claus appears in issue 5495 of the Information Bulletin of Variable Stars.

• TASS Mark IV Photometric Survey of the Northern Sky describes the Mark IV cameras, operation, software, and the patches catalog. The paper will appear in the December, 2006, issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. You can find a copy of the preprint the TASS "patches catalog" web page, which also contains the catalog. The catalog will eventually be available from the Vizier catalog service.

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