This has caused some head scratching in recent days. Is this something connected to fundamental physics or more surface phenomenology? We do not know. We might put this in the same unknown category as fast radio bursts.
LC On Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 6:37:53 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > In Yesterday's issue of The Astrophysical Journal Astronomers at > Australia's Square Kilometer Array radio telescope reported they have found > an odd signal coming from the center of the Milky Way. The signal is very > highly circularly polarized, which is pretty unusual for an astronomical > object, and it does not produce any detectable visible, infrared, or x-ray > emissions, only radio. And it varies in intensity randomly by a factor of > 100 over time scales as short as one day, so whatever it is it must be a > small compact object. Astronomers don't know what the source could be but > they do know what it isn't, they have ruled out Pulsars, flare stars, and > GammaRay bursts. To my knowledge nobody has even offered up a hypothesis > about what the source could be. > > Here is a free preprint of the article: > > Discovery of ASKAP J173608.2−321635 as a Highly-Polarized Transient Point > Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder > <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00652.pdf> > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ab82901e-9e6e-4441-b0e9-c024539697cfn%40googlegroups.com.
