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A Statistical Analysis of the Accuracy of the Digitized Magnitudes of Photometric Plates on the Time Scale of Decades with an Application to the Century-long Light Curve of KIC 8462852
Michael Hippke, Daniel Angerhausen, Michael B. Lund et al., 2016. The Astrophysical Journal 825(1), 73.
Measures the long-term stability of DASCH plate photometry: a median scatter of about 0.15 mag and systematics of up to about 0.2 mag per century for most constant stars. Concludes the claimed 0.16 mag per century fade of KIC 8462852 cannot be considered significant.
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The main challenge to the century-long fade.
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Hippke, M., Angerhausen, D., Lund, M. B., Pepper, J., & Stassun, K. G. (2016). A Statistical Analysis of the Accuracy of the Digitized Magnitudes of Photometric Plates on the Time Scale of Decades with an Application to the Century-long Light Curve of KIC 8462852. The Astrophysical Journal 825(1), 73. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/825/1/73
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title = {A Statistical Analysis of the Accuracy of the Digitized Magnitudes of Photometric Plates on the Time Scale of Decades with an Application to the Century-long Light Curve of KIC 8462852},
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Hippke, Michael et al.. “A Statistical Analysis of the Accuracy of the Digitized Magnitudes of Photometric Plates on the Time Scale of Decades with an Application to the Century-long Light Curve of KIC 8462852.” The Astrophysical Journal 825(1), 73 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/825/1/73.