High Energy Radiation Transients: Astronomy Campfire
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Posted by pete s on October 12, 192002 at 09:56:54:
Is that better? Does it GRaB you;) Anyway I guessed you were a highly operational sort. Your network looks very impressive And I hope you have great success. Of course if the ideas presented here are revealed as true the shortly you may all be watching some nearby white dwarf which is due to be irradiated be the neuts from some historical supernova. Thats uming a previous burst has been identified giving a very accurate distance so we know to a few days when it should flare. I'm sure this would be awe inspiring. You are generous in allowing 1 in 10^10 interactions. So with 10^17 neutrinoes per sq cent we have 10 million events. Well i have never tried calculating how many from a star to achieve a burst of say 100 events per sq meter of scintillator surface hear in the solar system. It might put me off. And it would you if you tried it for cosmological distances. I take the line of least resistance and say just look at the established data. The Interplanetary Network data is on the web and supposedly shows hundreds of error boxes a few arc minutes wide containing the site of a burst. My suggestion is that you will tend to find more local stars in these boxes than chance and they will be the cause. It would be ironic as they were looking for exotic things not local stars looking like er would not melt in their mouths. But it looks like its just you and me Astroman and you do not seem convinced.....yet. Perhaps I should try the Science Fair Ideas Board. Well its been a pleasure to have an intelligent conversation with someone who knows the subject. BTW I found a transcript of the Nova program on the Death Star. They were accurate about what a red shift was. When it was shown here last year they just said the afterglow was very red indicating a grat distance. Rediculous, the transcript was on the bbc website under science. they must have corrected it before it was shown over there. I have never seen these redshifts claimed. Sky & Telescope a few decades ago would have got them into the mag but not now it seems. Well lets try and wind this up and may I suggest you keep a jar of peanut er by the printer just in case:-) Cheers, pete.