Methods of Access
You can find light curve by browsing the projects, papers or catalogs where the data originated, or by browsing the TCP class taxonomy. If you know what you are looking for, you can also use the search form to jump directly to what you want.
How is This Organized?
The short answer:
- Projects have one or more Sources
- Sources are in one or more Classes
- Sources have one or more Light Curves
As DotAstro.org gets underway, the data represented in it has all been collected from publicly available data in astronomical literature. We have maintained basic metadata about those papers and catalogs complete with links to the original data. In DotAstro.org terms, these are 'Projects'.
The Berkeley Transient Classification Project has created a taxonomy of transient astronomical sources and all imported data is associated with one or more of those classes. You can drill down through the class heirarchy and browse the list of sources at any point.
Sources are the basic units in the warehouse. They have a position, a classification, and one or more light curves. If you are simply hoping to find the light curve of a source at a particular location on the sky, or with a particular classification you can use our simple search form to build up fairly complex queries.