Anyone could tell us more?
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by grzegorzolos
We clearly see some nice transits, one of them made a dim about 50% of the total lightness of star, other transits are also very certain. Do we deal with a dwarf star here? Did anyone studied this planetary system? Would be nice to know.
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by davidbundy77
Yes, this star (EPIC 204449274) is very interesting. There is a short discussion about it here http://talk.planethunters.org/#/boards/BPH0000005/discussions/DPH0000sco together with some similar stars. The analysis of @ajamyajax does indeed suggest that this is a young red dwarf star in the Upper Sco cluster. It is included as a target for study in the following proposals:
GO2020 Lodieu Finding transiting exoplanets in Upper Scorpius with Kepler K2
GO2047 Brown Rotational Properties And Evolution Of Young Stars In Upper Sco: K2-field02
GO2052 Covey K2 Monitoring of Confirmed Members of Upper Sco + Rho Oph
The star might be a T-Tauri variable or an eclipsing binary or possibly both.
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