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Tabby’s Star Posts

Our papers on Tabby’s Star:

  • Ĝ Paper IV
  • Families of Plausible Solutions

Blog posts on the discovery of Tabby’s Star and subsequent developments:

  • Where’s the Flux? (Discovery story) 
  • Updates on Boyajian’s Star (The Schaefer Dimming)
  • Metzger, Shen, and Stone
  • Neslušan & Budaj, and Sheikh, Weaver, & Dahmen
  • Ballesteros et al. and Katz
  • Tabby’s Twitter Q&A
  • What We’ve Learned about Boyajian’s Star I: Background
  • What We’ve Learned about Boyajian’s Star II: Data and Interpretation

10-part series on what could be going on with Tabby’s Star, from August 2016:

  1. Introduction
  2. Long-Wavelength Constraints
  3. Periodic Dips(?) and Interstellar(?) sodium
  4. Nearby Stars, Instrumental Effects, and a Solar System Cloud
  5. The Interstellar Medium
  6. Black Holes
  7. Circumstellar Dust
  8. Alien Megastrutures
  9. Intrinsic Variations
  10. Wrapup and Gaia’s Promise

Contact

If you are interested in graduate work with me see here.

astrowright@gmail.com

525 Davey Laboratory
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

 

Recent Posts

  • Loeb’s Behavior is Reckless
  • 3I/ATLAS is Still Intact and Still a Comet
  • Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
  • Wait…Maybe a 15 year Dyson Sphere Isn’t *Literally* Impossible?
  • Will We Build a Dyson Sphere in 15 years?

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