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We have utilized the NASA IRTF 3m SpeX instrument's high resolution spectralmode (Rayner et al. 2003) to observe and characterize the near-infrared fluxemanating from the unusual Kepler lightcurve system KIC8462852. By comparingthe resulting 0.8 to 4.2 um spectrum to a mesh of model photospheric spectra,the 6 emission line analysis of the Rayner et al. 2009 catalogue, and the 25system collection of debris disks we have observed to date using SpeX under theNear InfraRed Debris disk Survey (NIRDS; Lisse et al. 2016), we have been ableto additionally characterize the system. Within the errors of our measurements,this star looks like a normal solar abundance main sequence F1V to F3V dwarfstar without any obvious traces of significant circumstellar dust or gas. UsingConnelley & Greene's (2014) emission measures, we also see no evidence ofsignificant ongoing accretion onto the star nor any stellar outflow away fromit. Our results are inconsistent with large amounts of static close-inobscuring material or the unusual behavior of a YSO system, but are consistentwith the favored episodic models of a Gyr old stellar system favored byBoyajian et al. (2015). We speculate that KIC8462852, like the approximately1.4 Gyr old F2V system {\eta} Corvi (Wyatt et al. 2005, Chen et al. 2006, Lisseet al. 2012), is undergoing a Late Heavy Bombardment, but is only in its veryearly stages.

IRTF/SPEX Observations of the Unusual Kepler Lightcurve System KIC8462852