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The one that got away: a unique eclipse in the young brown dwarf Roque 12

Scholz, Aleks; Eislöffel, Jochen; Froebrich, Dirk +1 more

We report the discovery of a deep, singular eclipse of the bona fide brown dwarf Roque 12, a substellar member of the Pleiades. The eclipse was 0.65mag deep, lasted 1.3h, and was observed with two telescopes simultaneously in October 2002. No further eclipse was recorded, despite continuous monitoring with Kepler/K2 over 70d in 2015. There is tent…