• Corpus ID: 119199223

# A first view with GAIA on KIC 8462852 - distance estimates and a comparison to other F stars

@article{Hippke2016AFV,
title={A first view with GAIA on KIC 8462852 - distance estimates and a comparison to other F stars},
author={Michael Hippke and Daniel Angerhausen},
journal={arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
year={2016}
}
• Published 18 September 2016
• Physics
• arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Distance estimates from Gaia parallax and expected luminosities are compared for KIC 8462852. Gaia DR1 yields a parallax of $2.55\pm0.31$mas, that is a distance of $391.4\substack{+53.6 \\ -42.0}$pc, or $391.4\substack{+122.1 \\ -75.2}$pc including systematic uncertainty. The distance estimate based on the absolute magnitude of an F3V star and measured reddening is $\sim454\pm35$pc. Both estimates agree within $<1\sigma$, which only excludes some of the most extreme theorized scenarios for KIC…
4 Citations

## Figures and Tables from this paper

• Physics, Geology
• 2016
Apart from thousands of `regular' exoplanet candidates, Kepler satellite has discovered a few stars exhibiting peculiar eclipse-like events. They are most probably caused by disintegrating bodies
Boyajian's Star (KIC 8462852) undergoes mysterious, irregular eclipses that aren't yet explained. It also appears to have dimmed over a time of several years, possibly decades. I show that Kepler's
A statistical analysis links a star’s mysterious brightness fluctuations to internal nonequilibrium phenomena, rather than structures orbiting around the star.
• Physics, Geology
• 2016
The F3 main-sequence star KIC 8462852 (Boyajian’s Star) showed deep (up to 20%) day-long brightness dips of unknown cause during the four years of the Kepler mission. A 0.164 mag (16%) dimming

## References

SHOWING 1-6 OF 6 REFERENCES

• Physics, Geology
• 2016
KIC 8462852 is a superficially ordinary main sequence F star for which Kepler detected an unusual series of brief dimming events. We obtain accurate relative photometry of KIC 8462852 from the Kepler
• Physics
• 2016
Gaia Data Release 1 (Gaia DR1) contains astrometric results for more than 1 billion stars brighter than magnitude 20.7 based on observations collected by the Gaia satellite during the first 14 months
• Physics
• 2016
The century-long photometric record of the DASCH project provides a unique window into the variability of stars normally considered to be photometrically inactive. In this paper, we look for
• Physics
• 2016
Good explanations for the unusual light curve of Boyajian's Star have been hard to find. Recent results by Montet & Simon lend strength and plausibility to the conclusion of Schaefer that in addition
• Physics
• 2013
Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the EuropeanSpace Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric

• ApJL,
• 2014