Here are example of elements that reflect IR light if present in the dust ring around Tabby's Star.
Examples of materials have been given in the answer above, but the principle is:
1. To let visible light through, the material has to be either a high bandwidth (more precisely, higher than 3.2 eV) e.g. glass, diamond etc. Or it has to be very thin (like a thin film of metal, with a thickness of a few nanometer).
2. To reflect IR, the material has to have free electrons. This means the same films of metal work fine; and so do oxides like indium tin oxide (ITO), zinc oxide (ZnO) etc. These oxides are what are used in the low-e glass coatings. In a double-paned window, these layers are put on the inside of the outer glass pane, to maximize reflection.
Thus materials which have both of these properties are the transparent (conducting) oxides or thin films of metal of a few nm thickness.
Incidentally, many of us have witnessed metals reflecting off IR, when we accidentally leave some of that aluminium foil in the microwave. Microwaves can be thought of as far IR, which interact with the free electrons in the metal and put on that sparkly show your microwave hates. (Hence no metals recommended in there!)
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-material-that-reflects-infrared-but-passes-visible-light
I had it backwards.
Are there any percentages available of how much IR and UV light is present at Tabby's Star? The results would then be compared to material compositions of the dust in the ring networks orbiting the four gas giants in our solar system to determine which dust ring network and material composition would most likely be oribting Tabby's Star and would cause the dips of Tabby's Star
Radiation emanating from Tabby's Dust Ring.
We know that planets such as Jupiter have a ring network that has dust particles along with much larger bunnies that form into small moons. Is there a way to determine how the radiation for each of the four gas giants in our own solar system "sounds" based on the radiation being emitted that would then be correlated to radiation type emitted based on each ring networks dust and material composition?
Is there a way to determine how many volts are present during a non-transit and a transit based on the depth of the dips and the time that each dip takes place that could be then used to determine if a planet is passing through a dust ring around Tabby's Star and becoming negatively and positively charged?
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibiti...s/online/solar-system/jupiter/environment.cfm
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q...radiation-belt-where-mev-particles-comes-from
Does anyone study trees in depth?
Being an avid maker of homemade aging barrels I came across something interesting that might relate to what is taking place with a star and its light curve.
First off we know that all trees take in the available light of its sun to grow. The interaction between the tree seed and the frequency of light being taken in and the light curve of the sun itself would therefore most likely effect the end grain and pore creation of the wood itself.
If you look at the link and then the 1. Look at the Endgrain section you can see something has taken place that has caused the two oaks to grow differently.
http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/distinguishing-red-oak-from-white-oak/
On the left is Red Oak which has pores that resemble a planetary transit taking place. If you look at the White Oak to the right you can see that pores are more compact meaning that our sun was basically quiet when the White Oak seed first formed.
Therefore based on the end grain of wood species we might be able to determine what is taking place in a solar system very far away as a the end grain of a tree species is much like the old plates used to capture light from a star far away as each seed of a wood species would have developed during a different phase of the sun during its formation but more importantly the formation of trees that take in carbon and then release oxygen.
Wood species that take in more carbon while producing oils that could protect against harmful UV radiation might be able to be used to determine the phase of the Earth and the sun when more carbon was present where the trees took in the carbon and released a higher volume of oxygen in return.
Trees are a good source of determining the phase that a sun is going through because each type of tree species and the wood end grain is a snapshot of the Sun's UV frequency and UV production type that nature then uses to recreate each seed from over and over again without any diminishing effects unlike photo copying the same black and white photo over and over again.
If we can determine the age of a tree species based on how old the tree is, or basically when the seed of a tree species was first created, we can logically determine what the sun was going through as each phase of the sun would have emanated UV radiation that would have created each individual tree species separately. If the sun affected the development of tree seeds the same then there would only be on type of tree on Earth.
Determining what phase of the sun created a particular tree seed would allow us to better determine what phase KIC 8462 was in seeing as how both our Sun and KIC 8462 are comparatively the same type of suns.
With UV effecting the tree seed to cause it to grow a certain way the manner in which the tree seed develops and grows is based directly on the phase that the sun is going through or went through when the tree seed was first created.
Without UV effecting the seed of trees to grow then the Earth would never have had trees.
If we can find a growth pattern that would fit the peculiar light curve of KIC 8462 here on then we might be able to understand better what is causing the dips on KIC 8462 to take place as the same events that caused the tree seed to form under the same dips in light here on Earth would most likely be the cause of the dips on KIC 8462.
An Unknown Element The Potential Cause For The Dips Of KIC 8462852
I was reading through the blog, link below the post, and thought; everything that has been known to cause a star's light curve to dip has been thoroughly put through the ringer. Everything keeps on coming to a dead end that causes a loop back to take place of going through the data again and discussing the same issues over and over until we become green in the face.
The last cog in the wheel is aliens, but as usual that idea is always put on the back burner.
An unknown element
Perhaps an unknown element is present within KIC 8462852 that is possibly the cause for the dips to occur in stars such Przybylski's and the EPIC star.
The question is this; Is there any way to determine what type of unknown element could be possibly present in Tabby's Star by adjusting how known elements affect the light curve of our own sun?
Someone has to have played around with element models at some point in their career and adjusted the structure of an element just to see what the element might do.
It's either an unknown element or we have to move into the Alien Mega-structure forum of discussion.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/o...=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.WVwJ9YjyuCj
