Bizarre Deep-Space Radio Blasts Have Astronomers Baffled
1 Sep 2014 5:25:07 UTC
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These Bizarre Deep-Space Radio Blasts Have Astronomers Baffled
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A split-second burst of energy that erupted in deep space is giving astronomers important new clues about a mysterious class of astrophysical phenomena.
Only a handful of these rapid, millisecond-duration events, known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs), had been detected previously, all of them by a single instrument — the Parkes Observatory in Australia. As a result, some astronomers have speculated that FRBs have local origins.
But the latest burst, which was observed on Nov. 2, 2012 by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, puts the lie to that notion, researchers said. [The Strangest Things in Space]
Bizarre Deep-Space Radio Blasts Have Astronomers Baffled
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Very interesting. What is the relationship between Einstein and the Pulsar ALFA (PALFA) survey? Do they use the same data? Does Einstein contribute to the PALFA work?
RE: Very interesting. What
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Absolutely and to good effect. Some PALFA data streams are allocated to E@H based upon a happy co-incidence of needs vs capabilities. However the E@H searches are multi-cycle affairs ie. detection of longer interval ongoing base rhythmicity and not transients as described in the article.
Having said that Nature is not required to constrain itself to our modelling and of course the same stellar object may produce all sorts of evidence. If you like that is a key point at issue ...
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Some PALFA data
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Apparently these discoveries were pre-processed at the telescope and the analysis was done on the ATLAS cluster.
"These data were processed on the ATLAS cluster of the Max-
Planck-Institut f¨ur Gravitationsphysik/Albert-Einstein
Institut, Hannover, Germany."
From:
"Draft version April 14, 2014
Preprint typeset using LATEX style emulateapj v. 5/2/11
FAST RADIO BURST DISCOVERED IN THE ARECIBO PULSAR ALFA SURVEY
L. G. Spitler1, J. M. Cordes2, J. W. T. Hessels3,4, D. R. Lorimer5, M. A. McLaughlin5, S. Chatterjee2,
F. Crawford6, J. S. Deneva7, V. M. Kaspi8, R. S. Wharton2, B. Allen9,10,11, S. Bogdanov12, A. Brazier2,
F. Camilo12,13, P. C. C. Freire1, F. A. Jenet14, C. Karako–Argaman8, B. Knispel10,11, P. Lazarus1, K. J. Lee15,1,
J. van Leeuwen3,4, R. Lynch8, A. G. Lyne16, S. M. Ransom17, P. Scholz8, X. Siemens9, I. H. Stairs18, K. Stovall19,
J. K. Swiggum5, A. Venkataraman13, W. W. Zhu18, C. Aulbert11, H. Fehrmann11
Draft version April 14, 2014"
I read elsewhere and promptly forgot what the p2030 prefix of the current Einstein@Home work indicates. It was interesting, but it wasn't what I was looking-for so I experienced yet another memory leak.
I need my RAM replaced.
RE: Apparently these
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No doubt true, but AFAIK no such work was emitted via E@H to clients ie. AEI @ MPG has other computing assets separate from the E@H workflows. I'm happy to be corrected though ! :-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) In fact if one Googles or otherwise searches for the output of any/all the researchers associated with E@H you will find they are a fairly prolific bunch. There are quite alot of skillsets needed to do serious work in the astrophysics paddock. Thus the products of the E@H data pipeline segment have very immediate application in the hard science category, which IMHO contributes to E@H's ongoing attraction ( even if the kudos of the Einstein name did not apply ). I am personally quite intellectually itching to go on the AdLIGO data sets, that being the target state envisioned when I first signed up in '05. :-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Everybody : Bang spoons and
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Everybody : Bang spoons and empty bowls on the table and repeat after me ! :-) :-)
#1 We want AdLIGO Pudding !
#2 When do we want it ?
#3 NOW !!
#4 goto #1
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
BANG BANG BANG spills beer on
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BANG BANG BANG spills beer on table, forgets what to say, BANG BANG BANG
Drinks well with others...
Phil
ROFL ! :-) People tell me
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ROFL ! :-)
People tell me I don't know the second verse of the national anthem. So what! I don't even remember the first ! :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal