Planet Hunters forum Talk member planetsam identified this light curve for KIC 4949187 as a possible unlisted heartbeat binary star system, a class of tidally excited eccentric binaries. This new class of stars was first discussed at the Kepler Science Conference in December of 2011. View Susan Thompson's Kepler video presentation here.
Kian Jek provided the phased curve below:
You can follow the discussion at Planet Hunters Talk forum here.
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