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A hatår és a csillagos ég
Tavaly szeptemberben a kirĂĄndulĂłszezont Kanada Ă©s az USA-ĂĄllam Maine hatĂĄrĂĄn fejeztĂŒk be (ld. 2018. szeptemberi bejegyzĂ©sek között). Ez akkora szerelemmĂ© alakult idĆközben, hogy nem is Ă©n, hanem Rafa ragaszkodott hozzĂĄ, hogy visszamenjĂŒnk a Lac MĂ©gantic partjĂĄra. A MontrĂ©altĂłl kb. 3 ĂłrĂĄnyi autĂłkĂĄzĂĄsra lĂ©vĆ tĂł vidĂ©ke tĂ©nyleg lenyƱgözĆ Ă©s igen kis forgalmĂș. MĂ©g most is, amikor egyĂ©bkĂ©nt hivatalosan vakĂĄciĂł van QuĂ©bec-szerte (a hĂrhedt, mĂĄr-mĂĄr kommunista beĂŒtĂ©sƱ vacances de la construction, amikor legfeljebb ĂŒgyeleti felĂĄr mellett lehet szerelĆt talĂĄlni).
SzĂłval visszamentĂŒnk ugyanabba a kis panziĂłba, amely a tĂł partjĂĄn amolyan valĂłdi bĂ©ke szigete. A tulajdonos hĂĄzaspĂĄr megismert bennĂŒnket: pĂ©ntek este naplemente környĂ©kĂ©n kint ĂŒltek a földszinti elĆteraszon a tĂłval szemközt, Ă©s valami kellemes olasz bort iddogĂĄltak (a hĂĄzaspĂĄr ugyanis a panziĂłban is lakik ĂĄm!). Amikor meglĂĄttak bennĂŒnket a partvonali naplementefotĂłk kĂ©szĂtĂ©se közepette, hoztak kĂ©t poharat, kĂ©t szĂ©ket Ă©s mindenfĂ©le kĂ©rdĂ©s nĂ©lkĂŒl töltöttek nekĂŒnk is. BĆ kĂ©t ĂłrĂĄt beszĂ©lgettĂŒnk lelkesen, Ă©s ugyan Ă©n nĂ©hĂĄny dolgot alaposan fĂ©lreĂ©rtettem, mĂ©gis nagy öröm, hogy nehezĂtett terepen (quĂ©bĂ©cois tĂĄjnylev, mondjuk Ășgy:) megĂĄlltam a helyem. Az asszony elköszönt korĂĄbban, mert a reggeliĂ©rt Ć felel Ă©s pihenni tĂ©rt, a fĂ©rj mĂ©g Ćslakos ginnel traktĂĄlt - ahogy Csongi mondanĂĄ - kilĂ©pĆ gyanĂĄnt.
IdĂ©n nagy tĂșrĂĄt nem terveztĂŒnk be (itt is 30 fok felett jĂĄrunk igen dĂșs pĂĄrĂĄval), de mivel szombat estĂ©re belĂ©pĆnk volt egy 3 ĂłrĂĄs csillagĂĄszati programra a Mont MĂ©gantic Nemzeti Park terĂŒletĂ©n, a napijeggyel felmehettĂŒnk napközben autĂłval is a parkolĂłval ellĂĄtott hegycsĂșcsokra. Az 1065 mĂ©teres Mont-Saint-Joseph-en egy bĂĄjos kis kĂĄpolna ĂĄll Szent JĂłzsefnek szentelve. Innen tettĂŒnk egy oda-vissza 3 km-es hegyi sĂ©tĂĄt a misztikusan hangzĂł Pic des CrĂ©puscule-re. EzutĂĄn felmentĂŒnk a csillagvizsgĂĄlĂłhoz is, ami - ahogyan tavaly mĂĄr Ărtam a BĂŒkk Ă©s a Mont MĂ©gantic kapcsĂĄn - megkapta az International Dark-Sky Association hivatalos elismerĂ©sĂ©t.
Ez többek között azt jelenti, hogy sikerĂŒlt az amĂșgy sem tĂșl nagy szĂĄmĂș környezĆ telepĂŒlĂ©st is meggyĆzni a fĂ©nyszennyezĂ©sĂŒk jelentĆs visszafogĂĄsĂĄban (lefelĂ© irĂĄnyĂtott lĂĄmpabĂșrĂĄk, a hideg, kĂ©kes fĂ©nyekrĆl a melegebb, barnĂĄs-sĂĄrgĂĄsokra valĂł ĂĄtĂĄllĂĄs stb.). Az eredmĂ©ny pedig elkĂ©pesztĆ! Tegnap ilyenkor bent ĂŒltĂŒnk vagy negyvenen az ASTROLab multimĂ©dia termĂ©ben, ahol 2 vicces nemzeti parkos fiĂș szĂłrakoztatott bennĂŒnket amolyan MindentudĂĄs Egyeteme stĂlusban, profi mĂłdon, zenĂ©vel-fĂ©nyekkel megspĂ©kelve. Mivel a felhĆk Ă©pp a fĆ âmƱsoridĆbenâ elĂșsztak az Ă©gboltrĂłl, amolyan hajnali rĂ©szeg KosztolĂĄnyikĂ©nt a koromsötĂ©tben botorkĂĄlva, ki-bejĂĄrkĂĄlva az elĆadĂłterem Ă©s a fĆbejĂĄrat elĆtt felĂĄllĂtott 3 teleszkĂłp között, Ă©s ez utĂłbbiak segĂtsĂ©gĂ©vel, majd kĂ©sĆbb szabad szemmel ĂĄmultam Ă©s bĂĄmultam âĂ©s a boldogsĂĄgtĂłl föl-fölkiabĂĄltam!â
MegnĂ©ztĂŒk a Jupitert, a Szaturnuszt Ă©s mĂ©g egy csomĂł minden mĂĄst közelrĆl, amirĆl fogalmam sem volt franciĂĄul, mik voltak, de hiszem, hogy magyarul sem ment volna. Az est fĂ©nypontja egy hullĂłcsillag volt, valamint amikor a Nemzetközi ưrĂĄllomĂĄs elhĂșzott felettĂŒnk. A szabadtĂ©ri âfoglalkozĂĄstâ tartĂł, igazi ĆrĂŒlt-zseni professzor kinĂ©zetƱ csillagĂĄsz az Ă©g felĂ© lĂ©zerrel bökdösve mutatta be a nagy csillagkĂ©peket, konstallĂĄciĂłkat, miközben az ĂĄltalam olyannyira imĂĄdott szentjĂĄnosbogarak mint földi csillagok cikĂĄzgattak a körölĂŒttĂŒnk lĂ©vĆ sƱrƱ erdĆben.
EgyszerƱen varĂĄzslatos volt! Komolyan Ășgy viselkedtĂŒnk mindketten, mint a gyerekek. Rafa most lĂĄtott elĆször szateliteket az Ă©gbolton, Ă©s mostantĂłl meg tudja Ćket kĂŒlönböztetni a repĂŒlĆgĂ©pektĆl vagy a csillagoktĂłl:) Ăpp ideje volt kicsit elszakadni a földi dolgoktĂłl Ă©s elmenekĂŒlni minden hatĂĄron tĂșl a galaxisokba... Ăjjel 11-kor indultunk vissza a szĂĄllĂĄsunkra, ami ezen a koromsötĂ©t tĂĄjon volt 50 km-re. SzerencsĂ©re egy vadnyĂșlon kĂvĂŒl mĂĄs nagy bestiĂĄval nem akadtunk össze a sƱrƱ, erdĆs-tavas vidĂ©ken!
Lac-MĂ©gantic telepĂŒlĂ©sĂ©n egy Ă©v alatt nem sok vĂĄltozĂĄs törtĂ©nt: a belvĂĄros mĂ©g mindig kietlen, Ă©s lĂ©pten-nyomon a hat Ă©vvel ezelĆtti vasĂști katasztrĂłfa nyomaiba botlik az ember. MindkĂ©t Ă©jszaka felverte a tĂł Ă©s a hegyek csendjĂ©t meg persze engem az Ă©rkezĆ vonat többszörös tĂŒlkölĂ©se (ĂĄtjĂĄrĂłnkĂ©nt 3+1 hosszĂș az elĆĂrĂĄs - ez most mĂĄr vilĂĄgos nekem is). SzĂłval azĂ©rt nem egyszerƱ. ĂrĂŒlök azonban, hogy mĂĄr mĂĄsodszor hozzĂĄjĂĄrulhattunk a helyi gazdasĂĄghoz azzal, hogy ezt a vidĂ©ket vĂĄlasztottuk kirĂĄndulĂĄsunk helyszĂnĂ©ĂŒl.
âAlien Megastructureâ Star Maybe Not So Alien-Megastructurey After All
One of the most head-scratching stars in the night sky (at the moment) may be starting to finally give up some of its apparent mystery. The unceremonious-sounding KIC 8462852 is better known these days as âTabby's Starâ or âBoyajian's Starâ after Tabetha S. Boyajian, professor of astronomy at Louisiana State University, who lead the team that first described the star in a 2015 paper. The paper is provocatively subtitled âWhereâs The Flux?â, leading to the starâs other occasional nickname: the âWTF Starâ.Â
KIC 8462852 is an otherwise unremarkable 12th-magnitude star in the constellation Cygnus. What makes it remarkable is the recent history of its light output, which has baffled nearly every stellar astronomer who has examined its light curve. A light curve is a graphical representation of the light output of some astronomical thing over time. Most starsâ light curves are flat and boring: they emit essentially the same amount of light at all times. Other stars are known as âvariablesâ. Their light curves show all manner of variation, from the highly regular to the highly irregular. In all those cases, however, we understand at least something about the underlying physics that causes these stars to vary.
Tabbyâs Star, however, is in a league of its own. The first indications that something is up with this star came from the Kepler spacecraft mission in 2011. Keplerâs M.O. is pretty simple: in its primary mission, lasting from 2009-2013, it stared at a region of sky containing Tabbyâs Star continuously, recording the brightness of every object in the field. Unlike previous instruments used in this manner, it achieved an unprecedented level of measurement precision, and was used to discover thousands of potential exoplanets. It also provided new information on the inner workings of stars themselves.
And it showed us that something about one particular star in its field of view is very, very weird.
Kepler light curves of Tabbyâs Star (above) give some idea about its odd behavior. Long periods of stability (i.e., when the light curve is very flat) give way to inconsistent drops in the light received from the star. The star was seen to dim for many days at a time, losing up to 20% of its brightness, before stabilizing again at apparently full power. It didnât at all resemble the light curve of a star hosting one or more exoplanets. Nor did it look like any other stellar light curve seen before.
Boyajianâs team wrestled with the cause of the starâs behavior. It considered explanations like a very young star prone to erratic light output as it settled onto the Main Sequence (nope: too old and mainstream for this kind of display). Or maybe it had a dusty disk around it that periodically blocked some of the light (nope: such a dust disk would re-radiate starlight in the infrared, leading to an obvious signal). After discarding some ideas like this for lack of evidence, the team proposed a radical idea: a chunky dust cloud made up of many dissolved comets (artist impression, below).Â
The comets would probably tend to cluster, it was argued, if they originated as some larger object around the star that broke apart under the influence of the starâs gravity.Lots of other explanations have been proposed, and mostly dismissed, for want of supporting evidence, including: Â Â Â
âą Burps from a star that had actually eaten one of its planets; Â Â Â
âą A big planet with a set of rings tilted with respect to its orbit, periodically blocking some starlight from view;
âą Chaotic stellar physics manifesting through something called âavalanche statisticsâ; and
âą Some previously unobserved physical effect at or near the starâs surface.
The most exotic theory of all, and the one that got the most press, was that Tabbyâs Star was being dimmed by a âDyson swarmâ (below): a ring or other structure around the star, composed of artificially designed and built objects, indicative of intelligent life.
Needless to say, it wasnât the simplest explanation for the observations, and probably isnât the right one.
New results seem to discount most of those theories and return to one of the original thoughts: the thing dimming Tabbyâs Star is nothing more than garden-variety dust. New observations from NASA's Spitzer and Swift spacecraft, as well as the Belgian AstroLAB IRIS observatory, show that whatever is doing the light absorbing is better at it in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum rather than the longer-wavelength infrared.
Thatâs an indication that the absorbing particles are fairly tiny compared to the wavelengths of light illuminating them. But how do we know that? It turns out to be the same reason that the sky is blue: light interacts more strongly with particles when its wavelength is about the same size as the particles themselves. Itâs for this same reason that the daytime sky on Earth is blue. So whatever is causing the dimming of Tabbyâs Star canât be made of particles much larger than the wavelength of light. Such particle sizes are consistent with the known properties of cosmic dust.
Lead study author Huan Meng (University of Arizona) says: âThis pretty much rules out the alien megastructure theory, as that could not explain the wavelength-dependent dimming.â Instead, Meng says, the most likely reason for the observations is boring, old dust. âWe suspect, instead, there is a cloud of dust orbiting the star with a roughly 700-day orbital period.â
However interesting Mengâs findings, they donât completely explain whatâs up with the âWTF Starâ. There is no known mechanism to produce a dust ring or disk around a star that matches the observed properties of the KIC 8462852 system over the length of time we have seen its light varying. Other processes could be combining with the dust dimming to yield the observed variations. For instance, says AstroLAB volunteer Siegfried Vanaverbeke, âTabby's Star could have something like a solar activity cycle.â
Further observations and study will be necessary to completely unravel the details of Tabbyâs Star. For one thing, itâs unclear why the object doesnât show an infrared excess, as would be expected for a star hosting a lot of dust in its nearby environment. As Vanaverbeke adds, âThis is something ... will continue to interest scientists for many years to come.â

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