New data on KIC 8462852

Following up on KIC 8462852...

Montet and Simon published a manuscript on the irregularities with KIC 8462852. They conclude:

There is no known or proposed stellar phenomenon

that can fully explain all aspects of the observed light

curve. Non-stellar explanations, such as circumstellar

material, o er the best opportunity to provide an expla-

nation for the observed light curve, but simple models

are unable to match the light curve as observed over the

last century. We strongly encourage further refinements,

alternative hypotheses, and new data in order to explain

the full suite of observations of this very mysterious ob-

ject.

Read more here.

KIC 8462852 Redux

There are more interesting news (?) on KIC_8462852 or Tabby's Star this week.

Murthy Nukala posted this, pointing to Phil Plait's article describing latest data (from 1890's :) with a link to the Bradley E. Schaefer's manuscript.

So, what's new? The star in question may have been fading in brightness over a time period of 100 years. What exactly this means? Read more by clicking above links. Nothing conclusive so far, but I am telling you, they are coming :)

 (Graph from Schaefer, 2016)

Also, Wow! Signal Podcast released a new episode titled 'The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star' on Jan 14th with Dr. Schaefer. You can listen to him reviewing and commenting on the data.

Again, Dr. Boyajian et al's manuscript that started it all is here.

KIC 8462852

Just for future reference, we used to call it KIC 8462852, or TYC 3162-665-1, or  2MASS
J20061546+4427248 :)

Btw, arxiv paper that started it all is here.