Modelling the KIC8462852 light curves: compatibility of the dips and secular dimming with an exocomet interpretation
@article{Wyatt2017ModellingTK, title={Modelling the KIC8462852 light curves: compatibility of the dips and secular dimming with an exocomet interpretation}, author={Mark C. Wyatt and Rik van Lieshout and Grant M. Kennedy and Tabetha S. Boyajian}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2017}, volume={473}, pages={5286-5307} }
This paper shows how the dips and secular dimming in the KIC8462852 light curve can originate in circumstellar material distributed around a single elliptical orbit (e.g. exocomets). The expected thermal emission and wavelength dependent dimming is derived for different orbital parameters and geometries, including dust that is optically thick to stellar radiation, and for a size distribution of dust with realistic optical properties. We first consider dust distributed evenly around the orbit…
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