VARIABLE STARS IN THE MOA DATA BASE

The microlensing project MOA, by its nature, has generated a large volume of photometric data containing valuable information on variable stars. Observations were collected using a 0.6-m and 1.8-m telescope at Mt John University Observatory, New Zealand. This paper is a review of results on variable stars obtained from the MOA microlensing survay. We describe the reduction procedure and methods used for the identiflcation and classiflcation of long-period variables and peculiar variables.