Spending hours going through the images taken since 2002, he and his colleagues found light variations that suggested v1309 was originally a contact binary star.

这位科学家花费了大量的时间来查阅望远镜自2002年起所拍摄到的图像，他与同事发现，从v1309所发出的亮光的变化上来看，它原属于相接双星。