Open Astronomy (Mar 2003)

PG 1605+072 in Wet XCov22: Support for the Multi Site Spectroscopic Telescope

  • Schuh S. L.,
  • Heber U.,
  • Dreizler S.,
  • O’Toole S.,
  • Jeffery C. S.,
  • Falter S.,
  • Woolf V.M.,
  • Riddle R. L.,
  • Handler G.,
  • Hürkal Ö.,
  • Pakštiene E.,
  • Klumpe E.W.,
  • Laurance T.,
  • Vuckovic M.,
  • Zoła S.,
  • Kawaler S. D.,
  • Kanaan A.,
  • Monteiro H.,
  • Giovannini O.,
  • Kepler S. O.,
  • Mukadam A.,
  • Provencal J.L.,
  • Nitta A.,
  • Shipman H.,
  • Mullally F.,
  • Grauer A.,
  • Wood M.A.,
  • Bradley P.A.,
  • Kilic M.,
  • Sekiguchi K.,
  • Crowe R.,
  • Sullivan D. J.,
  • Rosen R.,
  • Clemens C.,
  • Xiaojun J.,
  • Janulis R.,
  • O’Donoghue D.,
  • Ogloza W.,
  • Baran A.,
  • Silvotti R.,
  • Marinoni S.,
  • Vauclair G.,
  • Dolez N.,
  • Chevreton M.,
  • Deetjen J. L.,
  • Nagel T.,
  • Pérez J.M. González,
  • Solheim J.-E.,
  • Østensen R.,
  • Ulla A.,
  • Burleigh M.,
  • Good S.,
  • Metcalfe T. S.,
  • Costa A. F.M. da,
  • Costa J. E. S.,
  • O’Brien M.S.,
  • Kim S.-L.,
  • Lee H.,
  • Sergeev A.,
  • Akan C.,
  • Cakirli Ö.,
  • Paparo M.,
  • Viraghalmy G.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2017-0034
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 55 – 70

Abstract

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The Multi-site spectroscopic telescope is a virtual instrument and the name of a collaboration that opens up a new observational window by combining continuous observations of spectroscopic variations and simultaneous photometric monitoring. This constitutes an enormous observational effort, but in return promises to finally provide access to a mode identification for and an asteroseismological analysis of the pulsating sdB star PG 1605+072. Multi-Site Spectroscopic Telescope observations for this object have been secured during a large coordinated campaign in May and June of the year 2002. The frequency resolution and coverage of the photometric time series has been noticeably enhanced by a significant contribution from the Whole Earth Telescope, which was used to observe PG 1605+072 as an alternate target during the WET XCov22 campaign, also conducted in May 2002. This paper briefly outlines the motivation for the MSST project and tries to give a first assessment of the overall quality of the data obtained, with a focus on the Whole Earth Telescope observations.

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