The KIC 8462852 Light Curve From 2015.75 to 2018.18 Shows a Variable Secular Decline

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العنوان: The KIC 8462852 Light Curve From 2015.75 to 2018.18 Shows a Variable Secular Decline
المؤلفون: Tabetha S. Boyajian, Tyler G. Ellis, R. James, Shawn Dvorak, Emery Erdelyi, Steve Rau, Phillip H. Coker, Rory O. Bentley, John J. Ott, Siegfried Vanaverbeke, Arto Oksanen, John E. Hall, B. Harris, Mark C. Wyatt, Bradley E. Schaefer, Franky Dubois, Ludwig Logie, Katherine M. Nugent, Grant M. Kennedy, K. Graham, Steve Johnston, Rik van Lieshout
بيانات النشر: arXiv, 2018.
سنة النشر: 2018
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Infrared, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Light curve, 01 natural sciences, Occultation, Photometry (optics), Amplitude, Radiation pressure, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Planet, 0103 physical sciences, Circumstellar dust, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), QB, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
الوصف: The star KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star) displays both fast dips of up to 20% on time scales of days, plus long-term secular fading by up to 19% on time scales from a year to a century. We report on CCD photometry of KIC 8462852 from 2015.75 to 2018.18, with 19,176 images making for 1,866 nightly magnitudes in BVRI. Our light curves show a continuing secular decline (by 0.023 +- 0.003 mags in the B-band) with three superposed dips with duration 120-180 days. This demonstrates that there is a continuum of dip durations from a day to a century, so that the secular fading is seen to be by the same physical mechanism as the short-duration Kepler dips. The BVRI light curves all have the same shape, with the slopes and amplitudes for VRI being systematically smaller than in the B-band by factors of 0.77 +- 0.05, 0.50 +- 0.05, and 0.31 +- 0.05. We rule out any hypothesis involving occultation of the primary star by any star, planet, solid body, or optically thick cloud. But these ratios are the same as that expected for ordinary extinction by dust clouds. This chromatic extinction implies dust particle sizes going down to ~0.1 micron, suggesting that this dust will be rapidly blown away by stellar radiation pressure, so the dust clouds must have formed within months. The modern infrared observations were taken at a time when there was at least 12.4% +- 1.3% dust coverage (as part of the secular dimming), and this is consistent with dimming originating in circumstellar dust.
Comment: MNRAS in press, 19 pages, 4 figures
وصف الملف: application/pdf
تدمد: 0035-8711
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.09911
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::90f8dd848d8e7585f6f981f207370b5e
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....90f8dd848d8e7585f6f981f207370b5e
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:00358711
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1806.09911