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Geometric Interpretation(s)

    An excited low-order mode, traveling around the disk with a period related to the orbital period, could reproduce the gross flux variations of the long PCA stare.

    A clump orbiting in a resonance gap could produce features at integer and rational fractional multiples of the orbital period.

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