Heritage of the Kepler mission: Special object KIC 8462852 and criticism of the cometary hypothesis

Abstract

Paradoxical properties of the KIC 8462852 object discovered in the course the Kepler mission are considered. It has been shown that the assumptions about the nature of the object as a swarm of cometary bodies, fragments resulting from catastrophic collisions of asteroids, or the KIC 8462852b exoplanet meet serious problems and even contradict the Kepler laws, if the eclipsing object is considered as a physical body orbiting a central star. According the energy and other requirements, the hypothetical orbit of KIC 8462852b does not meet the Dyson sphere conception either. In the paper, we used the materials of the study by Boyajian et al. (2015) and the subsequent publications on this theme.