Episode 41 - The Vanishing Sources with Beatriz Villarroel

Released: 15 November 2019
Duration: 42 minutes, 24 seconds

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Figure 11 from the Paper

Our guest on Burst 19 in 2016, Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, returns to give us an update on the vanishing star, following the release of a new paper detailing a much more ambitious project along the same lines that finds a number of new candidate objects.

Links:

Burst 19: Our Sky Now and Then

Villarroel+: The Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project: I. USNO objects missing in modern sky surveys and follow-up observations of a "missing star"

The POSS-I Survey
Pan-STARRS
Chasing Disclosure (work of fiction that mentions the earlier research)

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