The BeSS database: a fruitful professional-amateur collaboration

C. Neiner

The BeSS database: a fruitful professional-amateur collaboration

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2018-11-14 v1

Authors: C. Neiner

Abstract

BeSS is a database containing a catalogue of Be stars and their spectra, set up more than 10 years ago as a collaboration between professional and amateur astronomers. It currently contains over 177000 spectra of 2340 stars, provided by ~150 different observers. Its continuous success has already led to the use of BeSS data in more than 70 scientific papers.

Keywords

BeSS database Be stars spectra catalogue professional-amateur collaboration astronomical database

Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.05261,
  title  = {The BeSS database: a fruitful professional-amateur collaboration},
  author = {C. Neiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05261},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the SF2A 2018 meeting

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