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Burst 30 - The Gaia DR2 Release and Boyajian's Star

Burst 30 - The Gaia DR2 Release and Boyajian's Star

Update: 2018-04-26
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Released: 24 April 2018

Duration: 10 minutes, 1 second

 

Paul Carr talks about today's much more accurate distance estimate to Boyajian's Star from Gaia Data Release 2, and what, if anything, this rules out.

 

Links:

Clemens+ (2018) - Proper Motion of the Faint Star near KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star) - Not a Binary System

Boyajian+ (2015) - Where's the Flux?

Interview with Brad Schaefer

Ben Montet Makes a Star Weirder

Castelaz and Barker (2018) - KIC 8462852: Maria Mitchell Observatory Photographic Photometry 1922 to 1991

Gaia DR2

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: Jason Robinson

 

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Burst 30 - The Gaia DR2 Release and Boyajian's Star

Burst 30 - The Gaia DR2 Release and Boyajian's Star

Paul Carr