southerncross
04-07-2015, 02:17 PM
Interesting that Cornell Univ. is perusing this possibility that these burst might be other than naturally generated. Any result no doubt a long way out but major university department is trying to determine their origin.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05245
"Fast Radios Bursts (FRBs) show large dispersion measures (DMs), suggesting an extragalactic location......
We speculate that this could originate from a Galaxy population of FRBs, with Milky Way DM contribution as model deviations, and an underlying generator process that produces FRBs with DMs in discrete steps. However, we find that FRBs tend to arrive at close to the full integer second, like man-made perytons. If this holds, FRBs would also be man-made. This can be verified, or refuted, with new FRBs to be detected."
http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05245
"Fast Radios Bursts (FRBs) show large dispersion measures (DMs), suggesting an extragalactic location......
We speculate that this could originate from a Galaxy population of FRBs, with Milky Way DM contribution as model deviations, and an underlying generator process that produces FRBs with DMs in discrete steps. However, we find that FRBs tend to arrive at close to the full integer second, like man-made perytons. If this holds, FRBs would also be man-made. This can be verified, or refuted, with new FRBs to be detected."