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Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails
Manasvi Lingam, Abraham Loeb, 2017. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 837(2), L23.
Examines whether fast radio bursts could be leakage from beams that extragalactic civilisations use to push light sails, and finds that the emitter size and the best frequency for such a beam are consistent with observed bursts.
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Lingam, M., & Loeb, A. (2017). Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 837(2), L23. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa633e
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Lingam, Manasvi and Abraham Loeb. “Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters 837(2), L23 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa633e.