Varfind curve formatΒΆ
The Varfind (mag-dev) curve file consists of table of indexes, mean magnitudes and standard deviations for all detected stars. Such data is intended for detecting variable stars on a set of CCD frames. Magnitudes are always in differential form, they are relative to the comparison star.
Output files are stored in the ASCII format; the end of the line is represented by
CR+LF
in the DOS/MS Windows environment and by LF
in the Unix/Linux
environment. First line contains a list of column names separated by single space
character. Second line consists of additional information and has no special
formatting, it must not start by number, though.
On the following lines, the table values are stored. The values are separated by tab character or single space, rows are separated by the end-of-line character (see above). Parsers must ignore all additional white characters. See table 1 for short description of columns.
Table 1
Keyword |
Description |
---|---|
INDEX |
Ordinal number of a star in the reference file |
MEAN_MAG |
Mean relative magnitude of a star |
STDEV |
Standard deviation of previous value |
GOODPOINTS |
Number of measurements used for computation |