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A community white paper about LSST observing strategy, with quantifications via the the Metric Analysis Framework.
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"Photometric variability of cool dwarfs" should be moved to Chapter 6 (?) #85

Closed keatonb closed 8 years ago

keatonb commented 9 years ago

@willclarkson I notice that starspot modulation is the only topic of its type included in Chapter 4. Perhaps this work would fit better with the other topic of intrinsic photometric stellar variability in Chapter 6?

willclarkson commented 9 years ago

Keaton - thanks for this! I think I agree that metrics in terms of detectability of variability may be better located in the variability chapter.

I really like the suggestion @MichelleLochner made (issue #79) about hierarchical metrics. For example, I can imagine us in The Galaxy having a metric like "width of instability strip" that in turn relies on a metric from Variability like "fractional completeness of variation detection."

No idea how this might be accomplished... perhaps there is a clever MAF-related way to make metrics depend on each other?

Cheers

Will

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Keaton Bell notifications@github.com wrote:

@willclarkson https://github.com/willclarkson I notice that starspot modulation is the only topic of its type included in Chapter 4. Perhaps this work would fit better with the other topic of intrinsic photometric stellar variability in Chapter 6?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/LSSTScienceCollaborations/ObservingStrategy/issues/85 .

drphilmarshall commented 9 years ago

@StephenRidgway can you please work with @willclarkson to make the suggested refactoring please? Thanks!

drphilmarshall commented 8 years ago

@StephenRidgway @willclarkson What's the status of this, please? Thanks!

willclarkson commented 8 years ago

@drphilmarshall and @StephenRidgway -- I believe @keatonb has submitted material on cool-star variability to Chapter 6, so I think this issue can be closed.

@keatonb , is this accurate?

Thanks!

Will

keatonb commented 8 years ago

No, I submitted content about cool pulsating white dwarfs, not starspot modulation and such sources of variability in cool (main sequence) dwarfs. I think that this is what the empty subsection of Chapter 5 "Age-Mapping the Galaxy Using Gyrochronology" was meant to address, but no one wrote any content. Sorry it's not my area of expertise.

willclarkson commented 8 years ago

My mistake, I must have read the discussion in a hurry... It sounds like the material on starspot modulation is still under development then for Chapter 5.

drphilmarshall commented 8 years ago

I'm going to assume this somehow got fixed. Closing out!