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Caption: Figure 1.
Optical light curves of LMCN 2009-05a from day 3.5 to 3591 generated using optical data from AAVSO and SMARTS. An inset highlights the first 200 days, showing the light curve behavior during the optical minimum, indicating obscuration of optical flux by dust (see Section 3.1 for more details).
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