A Reassessment of Families of Solutions to the Puzzle of Boyajian's Star
arXiv:1809.00693 · doi:10.3847/2515-5172/aaa83e
Abstract
Wright & Sigurdsson (2016) described several families of plausible solutions to the puzzle of Boyajian's Star (Boyajian et al. 2016), and ranked some of them by their subjective plausibility. Since then, theoretical and observational work have altered many families' plausibility, and so in this Research Note I reassess them, including the possibilities of intrinsic variation, intervening ISM or circum-black hole material, and circumstellar material such as exocomets.