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Origins of Mysterious Radio Wave Bursts (FRBs) Discovered
- Excluse 11y agoThis is in response to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314269
- calinet6 11y agoThe article describes a different phenomenon (perytons) that are unrelated to FRBs. The HN post is named incorrectly.
- jcarreiro 11y agoThis article is not about FRBs: Earlier this year, Swinburne University's Emily Petroff was the lead author of a report on the first observation of a fast radio burst (FRB) in real time. Previously, the enormously powerful but poorly understood events known as FRBs had only been detected in the records of large radio telescopes years after they happened. However, among those records was something else, which astronomers named perytons. The first peryton detected was in 1998, although it was not recognized as such until 2011. Perytons look sufficiently like FRBs that astronomers even speculated that the first FRB, known as 010724, might actually have been a peryton.
- acqq 11y agoThat is, the article writes about this paper but poorly and with the totally wrong title: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02165 http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02165 Because: "Now that the peryton source has been identified, we furthermore demonstrate that the microwaves on site could not have caused FRB 010724. This and other distinct observational differences show that FRBs are excellent candidates for genuine extragalactic transients." Better changing the HN link to the Arxiv paper and the title too.
- akinder 11y agoUgh, this is my main issue with the whole "i fucking love science" movement, it's not about science, it's about regurgitating sound bites and memes, and when they try to tackle a real scientific article, they get it wrong.
- fit2rule 11y agoSo .. not aliens then. Darn.
- calinet6 11y agoThe article describes a different phenomenon (perytons) that are unrelated to FRBs. The HN post is named incorrectly.
- spacemanmatt 11y agoTL/DR: Microwave oven.
- calinet6 11y agoThe article describes a different phenomenon (perytons) that are unrelated to FRBs. The HN post is named incorrectly.
- marcosdumay 11y agoI had to check the submission date. No, it was not April 1st. Anyway, it concludes that FRBs can not be caused by microwave ovens. Only another unexplained phenomena is caused by them.