Simply – how do stars and planets form?
Greene 2001 Greene, Th. 2001: “"Stellar embryology" takes a step forward with the first detailed look at the youngest Sun-like stars”, American Scientist, 4, 316
How can I tell if a star might have an accretion disk?
Look at the star in Vizier to see the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of the continuum. The spectrum of all stars is approximately a black body (see https://lco.global/spacebook/light/black-body-radiation/). The shape [...]
How do I find stars that might have interesting lightcurves?
The video about Analysing Lightcurves on the LCO Instructions page shows you how to search the SIMBAD database for for young stellar objects that might be variable. Basic steps are: [...]
Why do there appear to be two lightcurves in one?
Sometimes a stars is so close to another bright star that the measurements from the brighter one influences the other. Here's an example of where you can see that in [...]