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Spectroscopy of Variable Stars
BAA VSS  Workshop Edinburgh October 2008

The full presentation (5Mb pdf) can be downloaded here

Introduction

 Spectroscopy is a key tool for the professional trying to understand the mechanisms which cause variability in stars. Amateur spectroscopists are rather thin on the ground however as it is generally seen as too difficult, expensive or both.
In practise however, anyone who is currently digital astro-imaging or doing photometry with a CCD camera  can get into simple (but still scientifically interesting) spectroscopy without breaking the bank. Additionally an increasing number of amateurs are tackling the challenges of high resolution spectroscopy. So much so that the AAVSO are planning to develop a database for amateur spectra of variable stars.

Content 
In this workshop presentation I will:

1.Describe the equipment I use to take low and high resolution spectra.
2.Give some examples of  variable star phenomena which can be measured spectroscopically.
3.Walk through the procedure to turn a spectrum image into useful scientific data.
4.Give some sources of further information

Links to resources mentioned in the presentation

Robin Leadbeater                     www.threehillsobservatory.co.uk

Christian Buil                            www.astrosurf.com/~buil

Maurice Gavin                          www.astroman.fsnet.co.uk

Ernst Pollman                           http://spektroskopie.fg-vds.de/pollmann

Dale Mais                                 http://mais-ccd-spectroscopy.com


ARAS                                      www.astrosurf.com/aras

Vds Spectro group                   http://spektroskopie.fg-vds.de/index_e.htm


Star Analyser                            www.patonhawksley.co.uk/staranalyser.html

Rainbow Optics                        www.starspectroscope.com/

LHIRES III                              www.shelyak.com

Sbig Spectrographs                  www.sbig.com/dss7/dss7.htm

                                                www.sbig.com/sbwhtmls/spectrometer2.htm

Baader spectrograph                www.baader-planetarium.de/produktankuendigungen/produkt.htm
                                             

IRIS                                         www.astrosurf.com/~buil/us/iris/iris.htm

Visual Spec                              www.astrosurf.com/vdesnoux/


BeSS Database                        http://basebe.obspm.fr

                                                http://arasbeam.free.fr/?lang=en

VdS Database                          www.stsci.de/fg/data.htm
                                 

WR140 Periastron                    www.stsci.de/wr140/wr140.htm

                                                www.roe.ac.uk/~pmw/Wr140int.htm
Eps Aur Eclipse                        www.hposoft.com/Campaign09.html

                                                www.du.edu/~rstencel/epsaur.htm

                                               

Yahoo groups                           http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/staranalyser

                                              http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/spectro-l                        
                                              http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amateur_spectroscopy

 

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