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Did the kid paint the radio waves too? In all seriousness, why is it brighter than expected? What's the expected brightness for such an object, and how many er
by isaacimagine 5y ago
Did the kid paint the radio waves too?
In all seriousness, why is it brighter than expected? What's the expected brightness for such an object, and how many error bars is it away from this value?
- dekhn 5y agoSee the text after Figure 4, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04272-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04272-x Since I am not an expert astronomer (just a helpful computational person who has worked in the field) I can't give you a detailed ELI5, but they talk a lot about how it looks different from existing examples, and how to find more examples of this type (so you can do surveys; modern astronomers don't like to study one-offs, as they are biased, and instead prefer to accumulate a larger sample of instances).