The NASA mission Kepler has detected 28 transits with depths and durations
hours in the light curve of HD139139 during a 87 days campaign . Their arrival
times are erratic...Rappaport et al. (2019) discard ten explanations. It is not
clear if the transits are for HD 139139 or for a star B at 3.3 arcsec. New
radial velocity variation data give RV for HD139139 in 4 days (F. Bouchy and S.
Udry, private communication) excluding a close-in planet orbiting HD 139139, as
proposed earlier (Schneider 2019). (However, this explanation is still valid
for the star B for which radial velocity data are very poor). Here I thus
explore new tentative explanations and their likelihood: 1/ An eccentric
transiters belt around HD 139139 2/ Interstellar transiters 3/ Solar System
objects.(read more)