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Sonneberg plate photometry for Boyajian's Star in two passbands

Michael Hippke, Peter Kroll, Frank Matthei et al., 2017.

MYS0D8E71V402ZV · mystery · click to copyMTabby's star (KIC 8462852)Articledoi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa615d0

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Independent plate archive (Sonneberg Sky Patrol, 1934-1995): 861 pg and 397 pv magnitudes, differential against 39 colour-matched comparison stars. Combined slope -0.006 +/- 0.032 mag per century; rejects 0.164 at 4.9 sigma. Also Sternberg (Moscow) plates 1895-1995: -0.046 +/- 0.040. Key evidence against a real century fade and against a 1955-65 drop.

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Michael Hippke, Peter Kroll, Frank Matthei, Daniel Angerhausen, Taavi Tuvikene, Keivan G. Stassun, Eugene Roshchina, Tatyana Vasileva, Igor Izmailov, Nikolay Samus, Kirill Sokolovsky, Sergey Antipin, Stefan Dreizler, & Daniel Dittmann (2017). Sonneberg plate photometry for Boyajian's Star in two passbands. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa615d
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