{"id":291,"date":"2010-04-16T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=291"},"modified":"2010-04-16T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T01:00:33","slug":"epsilon-aurigae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Epsilon Aurigae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/04\/07\/my-favorite-star\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CosmicVarianceBlog+%28Cosmic+Variance%29\">Cosmic Variance: My Favorite Star<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In that case, we could imagine that the central star (presumably holding the disk together) could clear out a region near the center, and light passing through that hole could account for the brightening. I wrote a simple computer program (QuickBASIC on an IBM PC!) to calculate the light curve in this model, and we were able to get an extremely good fit to the data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>But technology has advanced quite a bit since my student years. Nowadays, we don\u2019t need to puzzle out the meaning of a light curve and come up with an elaborate story involving tilted disks; we can just take pictures of the thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2010\/04\/epsAur_prfig1_withdisk-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Cosmic Variance: My Favorite Star In that case, we could imagine that the central star (presumably holding the disk together) could clear out a region near the center, and light passing through that hole could account for the brightening. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=291\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}