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Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope — HN submission

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 08:31:55 GMT

Identifying a microwave oven as a source of false extragalactic FRBs (2015)

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Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope — HN submission

Sat, 27 Jan 2024 07:57:27 GMT

Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope

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Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope — mentioned by podiki

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:10:50 GMT

I am reminded of my favorite part of the whole Fast Radio Burst(FRB) story so far: Since they had only been observed at 1.4 GHz, it was natural to think it was some sort of interference, since that is a busy frequency. Similar events that seemed to be terrestrial in origin were called Perytons (a mythological bird [1]) for some reason. This called into doubt that the FRBs were extragalactic, as claimed. Then there was this fantastic paper [2] that completely figured it out (itself amazing). Turns out the "peryton" signals were from a microwave at a nearby building (lunch area for the lab or…

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Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope — mentioned by acqq

Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:40:48 GMT

That is, the article writes about this paper but poorly and with the totally wrong title: 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.

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Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope — HN submission

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:36:00 GMT

Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope

20 points; 7 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.