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American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Thu, 12/13/2012 - 18:28
As promised, the spreadsheet of EA stars in low galactic latitudes is available. There are two worksheets - one containing all 2495 stars and the other derived from a macro I penned which only lists those stars with amplitudes above 0.9m.
Next step will be to make that smaller sample even smaller by removing those stars which are definitely EA, leaving a 'hot list' of dubious, or little-studied, objects. Just an idea though!
The spreadsheet is Excel 97, which I know is practically antediluvian now, but I assume that later versions can open it.
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John Greaves has put the stars in the spreadsheet through various filtration methods and it appears that there is 1 likely candidate and 2 less likely ones (based on infrared excess). All of them are faint, and may be better suited to CCD observation.
The likely one is MN Ser, and the less-likely ones CK and GV Mon. John's list does not include stars South of -20°. Maybe a look among those stars using perhaps ASAS would be an idea.