Variable Star Network: World Center for Transient Object Astronomy and Variable Stars
Variable Star Network: World Center for Transient Object Astronomy and Variable Stars
Variable Star Network (VSNET, http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/) is a global professional-amateur network of researchers in variable stars and related objects, particularly in transient objects, such as cataclysmic variables, black hole binaries, supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. The VSNET has been playing a pioneering role in establishing the field of "transient object astronomy", by …