Astronomy:Andy's object
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Short description: Unidentified extra-terrestrial radio source
Andy’s object is an unidentified astronomical radio source sending "radio signals … from the direction of the centre of the galaxy", named after its discoverer, Ziteng Wang of the University of Sydney in Australia , using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and MeerKAT radio telescopes. The object is not visible to "the most powerful non-radio telescopes" and was detected six times between 2020 January and 2020 September.[1][2]
References
- ↑ "Something strange is sending radio waves from the centre of the galaxy". https://www.newscientist.com/article/2293298-something-strange-is-sending-radio-waves-from-the-centre-of-the-galaxy/.
- ↑ Wang, Ziteng; Kaplan, David L.; Murphy, Tara; Lenc, Emil; Dai, Shi; Barr, Ewan; Dobie, Dougal; Gaensler, B. M. et al. (2021). "Discovery of ASKAP J173608.2–321635 as a Highly Polarized Transient Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder". The Astrophysical Journal 920 (1): 45. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360. Bibcode: 2021ApJ...920...45W.
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