The Vega Project, Part I (Abstract)

Volume 46 number 1 (2018)

Tom Calderwood

1184 NW Mt. Washington Drive, Bend, OR 97703; tjc@cantordust.net

Jim Kay

26 Steeplebush Road, Shelburne, VT 05482

Abstract

(Abstract only) Vega is a key target for spectrophotometric calibration, hence confidence in its constancy is of great importance. However, decades of claims and counter-claims in professional studies have left open the possibility that Vega is, at a significant level, a variable star. We present a plan for a new photometric study and some preliminary results.