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Arecibo Wow! I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow! Signal
Abel Méndez, Kevin Ortiz Ceballos, Jorge I. Zuluaga, 2024. arXiv.
Reports Arecibo drift scans at 1420 MHz from February to May 2020 that found narrowband signals from small cold hydrogen clouds, about a hundred times weaker than the Wow! signal, and proposes that the Wow! signal was a maser-like or superradiant brightening of such a cloud triggered by a magnetar flare or soft gamma repeater.
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The leading natural hypothesis; the authors state that the trigger was not observed and that the hypothesis does not exclude other origins.
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Méndez, A., Ortiz Ceballos, K., & Zuluaga, J. I. (2024). Arecibo Wow! I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow! Signal. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513
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Méndez, Abel et al.. “Arecibo Wow! I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow! Signal.” arXiv (2024).