Left panel: photometry of the unresolved RW Aur system A (data from Grankin et al. 2007; Petrov et al. 2015); the red arrow shows the reddening vector for typical ISM-like dust, for A_V = 1 (Mathis et al. 1977). Right panel: photometry of star A after subtraction of the averaged flux of star B (taken from White & Ghez 2001; Antipin et al. 2015) from the unresolved photometry. Legend: red dots are historical data from 1986 to 2005. Blue hexagons: first dimming. Black triangles: between the two dimming events. Orange pentagons: second dimming. Green star and green triangle: photometry of stars A and B, respectively, from A15. Brown triangle: star B from WG01. Magenta star: star A from our X-shooter spectrum. All points are in the Johnson system (Johnson & Morgan 1953).