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The Great Dimming of the Hypergiant Star RW Cephei: CHARA Array Images and Spectral Analysis
The cool hypergiant star RW Cephei is currently in a deep photometric minimum that began several years ago. This event bears a strong similarity to the Great Dimming of the red supergiant Betelgeuse that occurred in 2019-2020. We present the first resolved images of RW Cephei that we obtained with …