Hi Fred - i'm not sure how you calculate your Jupiters, but I calculate that 4.6% dimming is about 11 Jupiters. By looking at area ratios, .046 x (KIC 8462852 Diam / Jupiter Diam) ^ 2 = .046 x (1 366 700 miles / 86 882 miles) ^ 2 = .046 x 247.45 Jupiters = 11.38 Jupiters, at 4.6% dimming (or one big transiting planet of SQRT(11.38) = 3.37x Jupiter diameter) (similarly, for your previous video, 0.035 x 247.45 = 8.66 rather than 5.5 Jupiters) regardless, thanks for the update! keep on dipping :)
Given the size and shape (March 25 video), we have to imagine an umbrella shape, made of dust mostly. It looks like a giant comet. However, the mass of this would be extraordinary. My own pet theory is that something moving at a percentage of the speed of light is pulling along a wake of material (detritus, comet dust, interstellar dust). The faster something moves, the bigger its gravitational effect. Since something has been noticed about this star for 100 years or so, relativistic travel could account for this. It would be coming in our direction as it is occulting Tabby's star either because that is its origin or is in our line of sight. Perplexing. We need to keep thinking of hypotheses which we can test...
Thank you very much. This one should be interesting! How low can it go? When we have a bounce back please show the shape guesstimate on the object. I found that really interesting and it may help give a clue as to what it is.
George T.K, Data from 4 telescopes in different parts of the world are on that chart. Some of the data points have an uncertainty +/- 0.5%. That is good enough to measure 4% dips. If you meant "will James Webb space telescope have high enough resolution to get an image" then no. JWST's resolution will be around 0.1 seconds of arc. At 400 parsecs Neptune and the Sun would be inside of one pixel.
David Lane also reported a new measurement this morning in the Reddit group, of an even lower dip, possibly as much as 10%! drive.google.com/open?id=1aNazzEXVW29GTmOYZushbhkra5jaGUpi www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/comments/82c0f4/2018_spring_photometry_thread/
There has been no proposals that the star is orbiting or is being orbited by a singularity. There has been a paper published that refutes the idea that KIC 8462852 is a binary system ( lanl.arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03299v1 ). I believe that would rule out the singularity aswell. You can check out the reddit page www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/ for real factual data OR www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852_Gone_Wild/ for the happiness of your inner child.
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Hi Fred - i'm not sure how you calculate your Jupiters,
but I calculate that 4.6% dimming is about 11 Jupiters.
By looking at area ratios,
.046 x (KIC 8462852 Diam / Jupiter Diam) ^ 2 =
.046 x (1 366 700 miles / 86 882 miles) ^ 2 =
.046 x 247.45 Jupiters = 11.38 Jupiters, at 4.6% dimming
(or one big transiting planet of SQRT(11.38) = 3.37x Jupiter diameter)
(similarly, for your previous video, 0.035 x 247.45 = 8.66 rather than 5.5 Jupiters)
regardless, thanks for the update! keep on dipping :)
WOW! I can't wait to see the next update now... This might be the start of one of the big big dips..
Awesome can't wait for next update.
OMG ! What is going on here ?
Thanks for the quick update.
This shit is crazy dude, I've been following this for years now
Given the size and shape (March 25 video), we have to imagine an umbrella shape, made of dust mostly. It looks like a giant comet. However, the mass of this would be extraordinary. My own pet theory is that something moving at a percentage of the speed of light is pulling along a wake of material (detritus, comet dust, interstellar dust). The faster something moves, the bigger its gravitational effect. Since something has been noticed about this star for 100 years or so, relativistic travel could account for this. It would be coming in our direction as it is occulting Tabby's star either because that is its origin or is in our line of sight. Perplexing. We need to keep thinking of hypotheses which we can test...
Great work. Love your videos.
hey. Why no more updates???
Thank you very much. This one should be interesting! How low can it go? When we have a bounce back please show the shape guesstimate on the object. I found that really interesting and it may help give a clue as to what it is.
STRANGE AT BEST
Yikes!
Does this event have any connection to the brightening even we didn't saw long ago?
Could it be a type of solar flare that ejects material and rapidly cools causing a dimming from our perspective...
What happened to the updates I haven't seen one in months
David Musial i guess they know it’s dust now so it’s now a case of nothing to see here.
Is the web telescope really strong enough to reveal what’s going around it? I really want to know!!
George T.K, Data from 4 telescopes in different parts of the world are on that chart. Some of the data points have an uncertainty +/- 0.5%. That is good enough to measure 4% dips. If you meant "will James Webb space telescope have high enough resolution to get an image" then no. JWST's resolution will be around 0.1 seconds of arc. At 400 parsecs Neptune and the Sun would be inside of one pixel.
David Lane also reported a new measurement this morning in the Reddit group, of an even lower dip, possibly as much as 10%!
drive.google.com/open?id=1aNazzEXVW29GTmOYZushbhkra5jaGUpi
www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/comments/82c0f4/2018_spring_photometry_thread/
Why was a Dyson sphere ruled out?
PADDT62, A Dyson swarm has not been ruled out.
Oh Wow!If it’s dust it’s very big!
Has anyone proposed that this star may have an orbiting singularity?
There has been no proposals that the star is orbiting or is being orbited by a singularity.
There has been a paper published that refutes the idea that KIC 8462852 is a binary system ( lanl.arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03299v1 ). I believe that would rule out the singularity aswell.
You can check out the reddit page www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/ for real factual data
OR
www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852_Gone_Wild/ for the happiness of your inner child.
D Z thanks for that. Will check that out.
At last!!!!! We are near of find something espectacular