Burst 25 - The Elsie Paper

Released: 3 January 2018
Duration: 15 minutes, 37 seconds

The Elsie dip was chromatic

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Host Paul Carr goes over the new paper by Tabetha Boyajian and 206 coauthors: The First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852.

Links:

Deeg, et. al. (2018) - Non-grey dimming events of KIC8462852 from GTC spectrophotometry.

Jason Wright blogs on the Elsie Paper

Burst 13 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, part 1
Burst 23 - Tabby Boyajian's on Elsie
Burst 24 - The Summer of Tabby's Star
I'm Still Perplexed

Where's The Flux
The KIC 8462852 subreddit
The KIC 8462852 subreddit wiki

The Dream of the Open Channel
AAVSO
Boyajians_R

Credits:

Host, producer, writer: Paul Carr
Music: Jason Robinson
Figure: Boyajian, et. al. 

Episode 31 - Journey Into the World of Alien Hunting

Released: 22 June 2016
Duration: 41 minutes, 19 seconds

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SETI scientists featured in Earthling's Quest

Daniela De Paulis hosts a conversation with the team producing the crowdfunded feature-length SETI documentary Earthling's Quest, and one of the scientists profiled in the film, Douglas Vakoch. We urge you to consider contributing to the Kickstarter for this film.

• opening
• Daniela's intro
• introduction to the Earthling's Quest team: Alexander Ryneus and Per Bifrost (film co-directors), and Malla Grapengiesser (producer).
• Introduction of Douglas Vakoch
• Introduction on SETI and METI
• What is the focus of the documentary?
• Why is SETI so timely
• Possibilities of finding extraterrestrial intelligent life
• Why should we contact other life forms?
• Should we be afraid?
• closing remarks and discussion
• Brief announcements
• outro

The Earthling's Quest team

Links:

METI International
The SETI Institute
The Earthling's Quest Kickstarter

Our updated Team page

Credits:

Host: Daniela De Paulis
Producer: Paul Carr
Announcer: Erin Carr
Music: DJ Spooky, Erika Lloyd, George Hrab

Episode 30 - Not a Glimmer of an Idea

Released: 27 May 2016
Duration: 67 minutes, 16 seconds

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We interview LSU astronomer Bradley Schaefer about why he s sticking to his guns about the century-long dimming of Tabby's Star (KIC 8462952), why some popular explanations fail, and what can be done to further explore the reason that this star's behavior is so weird. In particular, Brad wants to encourage us to contribute to Tabetha Boyajian's kickstarter to buy telescope time to monitor the star.

Links:

The Fast and Slow Dimming of Tabby's Star
Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 1
The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe
Interview with Tabetha Boyajian
Brad Schaefer: KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average Rate of 0.165+-0.013 Magnitudes Per Century From 1890 To 1989
Brad Schaefer on Centauri Dreams: Further Thoughts on the Dimming of KIC 8462852

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Announcer: Erin Carr
Music: DJ Spooky, George Hrab

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Burst 17 - The Where's The Flux Kickstarter

Released: 18 May 2016
Durations: 3 minutes, 33 seconds

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A short Burst to briefly explain today's development and to ask listeners to seriously consider donating to the new Kickstarter to monitor KIC 8462852 with a network of telescopes using standardized photometry. The hope is that we will reliably detect the star in the act of dimming. Please share this and the link to the kickstarter widely, and drop a little coin on the effort. Together, we can catch Tabby's Star in the act and solve one of the biggest cosmic mysteries before us.

Links:

The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe (kickstarter.com)
Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 1 (Burst 13)
Interview With Tabetha Boyajian (Season 3, Episode 4)
Interview with Stella Kafka of the AAVSO (Season 3, Episode 5)

The script for this Burst

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: Jason Robinson
Postprocessing: Auphonic.com
Hosting: Libsyn.com

The Wow! Signal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license