Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21820404w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #204.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The photometric record for many types of astrophysical objects is remarkably fecund, due to a growing body of synoptic photometric surveys. The same cannot be said for the spectroscopic record, despite the fact that much of the astrophysics requires spectroscopy, rather than photometry, to decipher. I shall report on selected topics I've been studying over the past 7 years, using the SMARTS/CTIO 1.5m telescope to obtain long time series on interesting stars. The venerable RC spectrograph offers resolutions from 300 to 3000 km/s, and can obtain useful spectra from magnitudes 0 to 18 (for emission line objects) in less than an hour. The capabilities of the echelle spectrograph greatly expand the scope of the science. I shall touch on science topics ranging from long term evolution of classical and recurrent novae, the accretion-induced activity in T Tauri stars and cataclysmic variables, to the orbits of O stars.
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