What should be decided (continued)
• We can decide to merge the
GCVS with automatic surveys now. I have
already outlined the difficulties and will give some examples illustrating the problems slightly later.
• Steve Kawaler’s suggestion:
“The GCVS personnel might play a role as a
`meta-catalog’ – a central `index’ of survey-based catalogs of variable stars”. We like this suggestion in general. However, it
should be worked out in more detail. If we want
to have a good meta-catalog, the
difficulties I have mentioned in relation to merging the catalogues still should be considered.