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The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Volume 44, Number 2, 2016
Editorial
The Publishing Landscape: It’s the “Wild West” Out There
John R. Percy 85
Variable Star Research
CCD Photometry and Roche Modeling of the Eclipsing Overcontact Binary Star System TYC 01963-0488-1
Kevin B. Alton 87
Studies of the Long Secondary Periods in Pulsating Red Giants
John R. Percy, Emily Deibert 94
First Photometric Analysis of the Solar-Type Binary, V428 (NSV 395), in the field of NGC 188
Ronald G. Samec, Jeremy Clark, David Maloney, Daniel B. Caton, Danny R. Faulkner 101
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 108
The High Amplitude δ Scuti Star AD Canis Minoris
Roy Andrew Axelsen, Tim Napier-Munn 119
UY Puppis—A New Anomalous Z Cam Type Dwarf Nova
Rod Stubbings, Mike Simonsen 128
Discovery and Photometric Analysis of the δ Scuti Variable TYC 2168-132-1
Michael D. Joner, Eric G. Hintz, Giorgio Corfini 131
A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Binary Star PY Boötis
Edward J. Michaels 137
Two High-Latitude UXORs
Michael Poxon 146
Instruments, Methods, and Techniques
Crowded Fields Photometry with DAOPHOT
Elisabetta Artusi, Giancarlo Conselvan, Antonio Tegon, Danilo Zardin 149
Variable Star Data
50 Forgotten Miras
Thomas Karlsson, Hans Bengtsson, Tomas Wikander, Gustav Holmberg, Robert Wahlström, Chris Allen 156
Recent Minima of 194 Eclipsing Binary Stars
Gerard Samolyk 164
Review Papers
Variable Stars with the Kepler Space Telescope
László Molnár, Róbert Szabó, Emese Plachy 168
Period Changes and Evolution in Pulsating Variable Stars
Hilding R. Neilson, John R. Percy, Horace A. Smith 179
Abstracts of Papers and Posters Presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, Held in Burlington, Massachusetts, November 10–12, 2016
Learning from Pulsating Stars: Progress over the Last Century (Abstract)
Horace Smith 196
Miras, Mass Loss, and the Ultimate Fate of the Earth (Abstract)
Lee Anne Willson 196
A Detailed Survey of Pulsating Variables in Five Globular Clusters (Abstract)
Brian W. Murphy 196
Establishing a CCD Light Curve For BW Vul (Abstract)
David Cowall 197
Studying RR Lyrae Stars with Kepler/K2 (Abstract)
Charles Kuehn 197
Unsolved Problems for Main-Sequence Variable Stars Revealed by the NASA Kepler Data (Abstract)
Joyce Ann Guzik 197
Type C Semiregulars and Irregulars: the Forgotten Pulsating Luminous Stars (Abstract)
David G. Turner 197
Identification of ASAS Ellipsoidal Variables Misclassified as Miscellaneous in VSX (Poster abstract)
Kristine Larsen, Corwin Hoover 197
Utilizing the AAVSO’s Variable Star Index (VSX) in Undergraduate Research Projects (Poster abstract)
Kristine Larsen 198
RR Lyrae in Sagittarius Dwarf Globular Clusters (Poster abstract)
Barton J. Pritzl, Thomas J. Gehrman, Ellyn Bell, Ricardo Salinas, Horace A. Smith, Maircio Catelan 198
A Photometric Study of Three Eclipsing Binary Stars (Poster abstract)
Austin Ryan 198
First Look at Photometric Reduction via Mixed-Model Regression (Poster abstract)
Eric Dose 198
Studying Variable Stars with Undergraduate Students at the University of Nebraska Kearney (Abstract)
William Lee Powell Jr. 199
Photometry and Spectroscopy of V2455 Cygni (Abstract)
Michael D. Joner 199
Exoplanets and Multiverses (Abstract)
Virginia Trimble 199
SLAS Library Telescope Program (Abstract)
James Small 199
Three New Z Cam Stars (Abstract)
Mike Simonsen 199
Converting Differential Photometry Results to the Standard System using Transform Generator and
Transform Applier (Abstract)
Marco Ciocca 200
V571 Lyrae is a Multiple System (Abstract)
Gary Billings 200
The Mystery of V523 Lyrae (Abstract)
Mike Simonsen 200
Eggen Card Project: Progress and Plans (Abstract)
George Silvis, Jack Crast 200
Erratum
Erratum. Current Light Elements of the δ Scuti Star V393 Carinae
Roy Andrew Axelsen 201
Index to Volume 44 202