[meteorite-list] Star's Bizarre Optical Antics at Least a Century Old

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, 

"Alien civilization still on the table"?
Somehow I doubt an advanced alien 
civilization would screw around with 
their own star. They might, if they 
were less than scrupulous, do it to 
somebody else's star. Or maybe they 
have found a way to continously 
extract energy from a nearby unused 
star over many centuries. You could 
call them "star eaters."

Once you pass over purely physical 
causes and move on to alien activity, 
almost anything is possible. There are 
physical explanations (some of them 
pretty exotic) for the behavior. Maybe 
this star swallowed a cloud of small 
black holes which orbit inside of it 
(or pass through it) and are slowly 
"eating" the star.

Since the behaviour has been obseved 
in only ONE star, it's could be very 
exotic (as exotic events are likely to 
be very rare). Now, if you find 
thousands more... that's a problem.

Sterling Webb
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Star's bizarre optical antics go back at least a century.
Alien civilization still on the table as data comes out of the archives. by
John Timmer, Ars Technica, Jan. 19, 2016
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/stars-bizarre-optical-antics-go-back-
at-least-a-century/

KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average Rate of 0.165+-0.013 Magnitudes Per Century
>From 1890 To 1989 by Bradley E. Schaefer (Submitted on 13 Jan 2016)
rXiv:1601.03256v1 [astro-ph.SR]  http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03256

Yours,

Paul H.
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