Ideas tagged with kepler

Searching for "Tabby's Star" Analogs in Stripe 82

["Tabby's Star"](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.457.3988B) is an anomalous F star with repeated short-term variability, and a steady [3% dimming over 4-years](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016arXiv160801316M). The star spent [~8%](https://twitter.com/Nighthawk_Black/status/762410345411...

By James Davenport, John Ruan

The NASA K2 Mission has yet to observe an analog of Tabby's Star

Tabby's Star is a main sequence F-class star ([KIC 8462852](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852)) observed by the NASA Kepler spacecraft to undergo significant aperiodic dimming activity across a four year baseline. The light curve was noted as novel amongst a pool of ~150,000 targets thro...

By Daryll LaCourse