MACHO Project: Variable Star Catalog Startup Information
Index
1.0Variable Star Catalog2.0Links to Documentation
3.0Demonstration Use
3.1Sample Input
3.2Sample Result
1.0 Variable Star Catalog
The Variable Star Catalog interface returns summaries of variable stars which satisfy user-defined criteria. The summaries provide hot-click access to a web lightcurve browser and hot-click selection for later ftp download of variable star lightcurve datasets.
2.0 Links to Documentation
Embedded are links to the help pages available during each phase of lightcurve query, selection, and browsing.
3.0 Demonstration Use
3.1 Sample Input: Variable Star Selection Query
3.2 Sample Result: Variable Star Selection
Acknowledgement to use when referencing MACHO Project data
"This paper utilizes public domain data originally obtained by the MACHO Project,
whose work was performed under the joint auspices of
the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration by the
University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No.
W-7405-Eng-48,
the National Science Foundation through the Center for Particle Astrophysics of the
University of California under cooperative agreement AST-8809616, and
the Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, part of the Australian National University."
and 