An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal · HackerPapers discussions

An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal — mentioned by kens

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:16:57 GMT

I read the paper (1) and it's kind of pointless. There's no actual evidence of anything in this paper. It consists of a database search of stars in the WOW signal direction, finding one that is sort of like the Sun. It is unknown if this star even has any exoplanets. Many comments think there is an exoplanet, so let me emphasize that all that is known to exist is a star. (1) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.06090.pdf

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An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal — mentioned by benpanter

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:05:52 GMT

The "paper" is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090 but its analysis is not really something that you'd get published in an astronomy journal [speaking as a former professional astronomer]

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An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal — mentioned by consp

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:12:15 GMT

True, but he states in the paper: > In this paper it is analysed which of the thousands of stars in the WOW! Signal region could have the highest chance of being the real source of the signal, providing that it came from a star system similar to ours. And that hypothesis he answers. So maybe not the best science the hypothesis is stated and a possible answer is given with many 'but if's' attached to it. pdf: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090

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