https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2106.05300/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27594086urn:hackerpapers:mention:2106.05300:27594086Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:53:51 GMT<p>I am disappointed that this is a link to a YouTube video idly discussing a paper, when it could be a link to the paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.05300.pdf &gt; The duration, depth and relative achromaticity of the dip mark this out as an exceptionally unusual event, whose secret has still not been fully revealed. We find two further candidates in the VVV survey and we suggest that these systems, and two previously known examples, may point to a broad class of long period eclipsing binaries wherein a giant star is occulted by a circumsecondary disc.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2106.05300/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.SRhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27553974urn:hackerpapers:submission:2106.05300:27553974Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:29:51 GMT<p>VVV-WIT-08: the giant star that blinked</p><p></p><p>1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2106.05300/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.SR