CVnet’s mission is to promote a sense of community among everyone involved in
the study of cataclysmic variables. Here, ideas and information are freely exchanged between professional and amateur astronomers,
educators and students, variable star organizations and individuals from around the world.
The CVnet website is devoted solely to cataclysmic variables. It will provide up to date
articles and interviews from professional astronomers and highly regarded amateurs in the field, as well as up to the minute
reports of CV activity from around the globe. Unlike many other science websites CVnet is not the face of any organization.
Instead, it is a place where members of different organizations can share ideas, information and resources. The CVnet website
is a great place to search for information about CVs that can be obtained from other organizations and individual’s
web pages.
The name says it all. CV stands for cataclysmic variables, and ‘net’ stands
for network. Professionals can tap the enthusiasm and talent of amateurs to assist in monitoring for CV activity and follow
up studies of new discoveries. Amateurs can tap into the expertise and insight of professional astronomers to make better
use of their observing time. Educators and students can find information and ideas for science projects or papers.
CV networking will be further promoted through the CVnet email lists. The CVnet lists
will be tightly focused and concentrate on cataclysmic variables only. Questions and comments regarding general astronomy,
gamma-ray bursts, photometry, eclipsing binaries, LPVs, politics, etc., will be directed by the moderators to appropriate
non-CVnet lists, where they can be addressed properly and won’t take up CVnet bandwidth.
To keep our community informed we have set up three email lists. You may subscribe
or unsubscribe at any time to the list(s) you choose. You will never be automatically subscribed
to any list you have not personally subscribed to, and there are no plans for additional lists in the future.
CVnet-discussion:
Here, ideas and information,
regarding cataclysmic variables are exchanged between professional and amateur astronomers, educators and students, variable
star organizations and individuals from around the world.
CVnet-outburst:
CVnet-outburst is real-time
email notification of cataclysmic variable activity.
Among its purposes are to:
-Notify professional astronomers on activity of targets of
opportunity
-Notify members of organizations or teams when the subject of an observing campaign becomes active
-Notify
educators, students or individual observers when an object of particular interest to them is active
-To keep CVnet observers
aware of current CV activity
CVnet-circular:
Subscribers to CVnet-circular will receive a bi-weekly CV Circular summarizing the previous month's
CV activity and the observers who are supplying the coverage. The CV Circular is generated using the most up to the minute
data from the AAVSO International Database.
Please visit our website and email
list home pages. If you are interested in cataclysmic variables, you've found a great place to start; CVnet.
