KIC 9832227: Using Vulcan Data to Negate the 2022 Red Nova Merger Prediction
@article{Socia2018KIC9U, title={KIC 9832227: Using Vulcan Data to Negate the 2022 Red Nova Merger Prediction}, author={Quentin Jay Socia and William F. Welsh and Donald R. Short and Jerome A. Orosz and Ronald J. Angione and Gur Windmiller and Douglas A. Caldwell and Natalie M. Batalha}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal Letters}, year={2018}, volume={864} }
KIC 9832227 is a contact binary whose 11 hr orbital period is rapidly changing. Based on the apparent exponential decay of its period, the two stars were predicted to merge in early 2022 resulting in a rare red nova outburst. Fortunately KIC 9832227 was observed in 2003 as part of the NASA Ames pre-Kepler Vulcan Project to search for transiting exoplanets. We find that the Vulcan timing measurement does not agree with the previous exponential decay model. This led us to re-evaluate the other…
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