Thank you. I have since learned that the data for the time after 1989 to present showed no gradual long term dimming trend. If Schaefer's analysis was correct, wouldn't we expect to see a continuation of that dimming for the 26 years after his last data point?
Mr. Schaefer's analysis of plates dating from 1890 to 1989 does not include data after 1989. So where is the data from 1989 to present? That's 26 years of information that no one seems to mention, unless I missed it somewhere.
Shouldn't the last two and a half decades of a century long...
Can you point me to a link were they have looked at the radial velocity (the wiggle?) during the periodic dimming events?
Also, while I understand the obvious meaning of the light dimming curves, I am not adapt to reading the finer details of the curves which tell us something about the...
Is there anything that would prevent a dwarf star from being within a mercury orbit? Not that I'm aware of.
I looked all over and I can find no information relating to anyone checking to see if this star wobbles. The wobble, or lack of, would most certainly confirm or debunk my idea but I...
Extremely proximate: Like within the orbit of Mercury?? Or are we talking something much closer?
I'm also wondering if it would make any difference that Tabby's star has a rotational period of less than a day.. Wouldn't there already be a bulging equator?
Hello,
This is my first post here. I have no idea what thread level to use so I just picked the middle one.
I'm hoping someone can tell me if my theory on Tabby's star ( KIC 8462852) is plausible or not.
Since its discovery, there's been much hoopla over the strange behavior of this star...