RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
May 21, 2017 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2017 at 2:06 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 21, 2017 at 1:41 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I think that is a planned observation. Perhaps underway in this dimming event.
As for a large body near the stars Roche limit, that object would be in a very short time period orbit, and while we might discern changes over several cycles, successive events would be highly similar.
We aren't seeing anything like that.
Also, the proffered comet cloud theory seems to me to be very weak, why this one star has something like that (that I still don't think would produce the lightcurve seen, BTW) and no other star has something same/similar is a real poser.
If the rock vapor outbursts spread out and streams behind the planet and persist for a variable number of orbits depending on the size of the individual outburst events, then there would not necessarily be any strong correlation between duration and observable variability of events and the period of a Roche limit orbit during most of an event, except at the beginning, before the outburst cloud had time to spread out around the orbit.
