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Nearby dwarf star with radio bursts

Nearby dwarf star with radio bursts

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https://phys.org/news/2022-04-radio-flares-nearby-dwarf-star.html

A star less than 40 light years away and about one tenth the mass of our sun has these blasts of radio waves detected by this new radio scope.

I am an RF dude, my job has me operating and repairing and tuning multithousand watt RF generators and I am a ham with my own transmitters so this was interesting to me.

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@sonhouse said
https://phys.org/news/2022-04-radio-flares-nearby-dwarf-star.html

A star less than 40 light years away and about one tenth the mass of our sun has these blasts of radio waves detected by this new radio scope.

I am an RF dude, my job has me operating and repairing and tuning multithousand watt RF generators and I am a ham with my own transmitters so this was interesting to me.
Makes me think of Tyrion Lannister jamming to a boombox

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@AThousandYoung
Well for GOT, it would be more like a beatbox🙂

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@sonhouse said
https://phys.org/news/2022-04-radio-flares-nearby-dwarf-star.html

A star less than 40 light years away and about one tenth the mass of our sun has these blasts of radio waves detected by this new radio scope.

I am an RF dude, my job has me operating and repairing and tuning multithousand watt RF generators and I am a ham with my own transmitters so this was interesting to me.
Are radio waves the only radiation this thing is putting out?

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@suzianne said
Are radio waves the only radiation this thing is putting out?
Can't be. Even a dwarf star will approximate a black body spectrum of the right temperature.