The purpose of this post to maintain a list of publications and other direct references to VStar.
At the time of writing, 23 papers in the following journals cite the use of VStar:
- The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
- Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Open European Journal on Variable stars
- Acta Astronomica
- arXiv (open-access archive)
The 2012 Algorithms + Observations = VStar” JAAVSO paper is currently the suggested way to cite use of VStar (as per the main AAVSO VStar page), although a CFF citation entry on GitHub or software publication DOI may be recommended as an alternative in future.
In the videos section, John Percy is author of the 2007 text book, Understanding Variable Stars.
Web
- Main AAVSO VStar page, with links to GitHub, forums, and other online resources
- Strange Quarks blog VStar category
Publications
- Benn, D. 2012, “Algorithms + Observations = VStar”, JAAVSO, v40, n2, pp.852-866
- Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL.net) entry
- NASA/ADS citations list for “Algorithms + Observations = VStar“
Videos
- Benn, D. 2022, Making Sense of Variable Star Observations (YouTube)
- Percy, J. 2022, AAVSO How My Students and I do Science With AAVSO Data — and How You Can, Too (YouTube)