Fast Radio Bursts - Natural or Artificial?

[Andie]

Still a mystery

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/it-aliens-scientists-detect-more-mysterious-radio-signals-distant-galaxy-ncna912586

 

Siemion gave Yunfan "Gerry" Zhang, a doctoral student at Berkeley, the job of training a deep learning algorithm to hunt for the additional bursts. The trained AI was turned loose to sort through 400 terabytes of observational data — a huge trove containing about as much data as is contained in 40,000 hours of 4K video.

 

After a month of work, Zhang strolled into Siemion's office and told his stunned mentor that he had discovered about 100 previously undetected bursts. To be sure Zhang was right, the researchers used standard computer software to clean up the messy signals — and confirmed the existence of at least 72 additional bursts.

[OKwx2k4]

Still a mystery

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/it-aliens-scientists-detect-more-mysterious-radio-signals-distant-galaxy-ncna912586

 

Siemion gave Yunfan "Gerry" Zhang, a doctoral student at Berkeley, the job of training a deep learning algorithm to hunt for the additional bursts. The trained AI was turned loose to sort through 400 terabytes of observational data — a huge trove containing about as much data as is contained in 40,000 hours of 4K video.

 

After a month of work, Zhang strolled into Siemion's office and told his stunned mentor that he had discovered about 100 previously undetected bursts. To be sure Zhang was right, the researchers used standard computer software to clean up the messy signals — and confirmed the existence of at least 72 additional bursts.

That's very interesting indeed.