AAVSO: American Association of Variable Star Observers
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Interactive JAVA Applet Access to the AAVSO Data Holdings (Abstract)

Volume 31 number 2 (2003)

John Good

Abstract

(Abstract only) The NASA Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at Caltech is working with the AAVSO to bring the AAVSO variable star measurements on-line in a dynamically searchable DBMS front-ended by globally-accessible web services. The results of such a search can either be downloaded as text or displayed interactively in a JAVA plot Graphical User Interface (GUI). In addition, the system allows for area searches (finding all the AAVSO Sources in a region), the results of which can be sent to the Oasis JAVA-based GIS multi-archive data access and fusion system (usable through most Web browsers).