snibbe

If your Kickstarter is funded and as successful as possible, what would be the best outcome of your experiments?

Can you explain in simple terms the controversy over the recent papers claiming the long-term dimming trend of KIC 8462852? The paper I read in the most detail checked the star against reference stars nearby to establish a normalized brightness for comparison, which seemed reasonable. And the later rebuttal was apparently based on using check-stars that were too close to crowding stars, fouling the data? Do you have any thoughts on an explanation for this dimming trend if true?