Did the slow fade continue, stop or reverse after 2018?
No evidence yetNothing has been tested yet. Propose an answer, or add evidence.
Where it stands
No answers have been proposed yet.
Why it matters
The last published measurements of the secular decline end in early 2018 (Schaefer et al., Hitchcock et al.); no paper has used ASAS-SN g, AAVSO or Gaia to extend the record through 2026. The fade's history since 2006 is already non-monotonic (brightening 2006-07 and around 2014, dimming 2009-13 and 2015-18), so eight more years decide between a secular trend and year-scale wandering, and bear on whether the century-scale claim is even the right frame. ZTF saturates on this star and Gaia DR3 has no epoch photometry for it, so the answer rests on ASAS-SN (v1 for this brightness) and AAVSO until Gaia DR4.
Answers 0
What would settle it
- Modern-era stitch 2006-2026: download by hand (logins and non-proxied ports block it from an agent) ASAS-SN v1 image-subtraction V and g for this star and the AAVSO B and V record since 2015, normalise each camera and observer against matched comparison stars, join to the ASAS V series of Simon et al. 2018, and fit the post-2018 trend. Nobody has published this.