Discovery of the First-Ever Recorded Fading Event of the Wolf-Rayet Star WR 59

arXiv:2609.00630 · astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Presents primary visual data alongside calibrated NASA TESS spaceborne overlays

Journal ref: British Astronomical Association Variable Star Section (BAA VSS) Circular No 209, pp. 15-20 September 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Verification — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — 2× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• American Association of Variable Star Observers — 1× in this paper
• Julian Date — 1× in this paper
• NASA Science Processing Operations Centre — 1× in this paper

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