Haverford College Haverford Scholarship Faculty Publications Physics 2011 Radio Bursts with Extragalactic Spectral Characteristics Show Terrestrial Origins S. Burke-Spolaor Matthew Bailes Ronaled Elkers Jean-Pierre Macquart Fronefield Crawford Haverford College,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.haverford.edu/physics_facpubs Repository Citation "Radio Bursts with Extragalactic Spectral Characteristics Show Terrestrial Origins" S. Burke-Spolaor, M. Bailes, R. D. Ekers, J.-P. Macquart, & F. Crawford, Astrophysical Journal, 727, 18 (2011). This Journal Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Physics at Haverford Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Haverford Scholarship. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Astrophysical Journal, 727:18 (5pp), 2011 January 20 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/18 C 2011. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. RADIO BURSTS WITH EXTRAGALACTIC SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS SHOW TERRESTRIAL ORIGINS S. Burke-Spolaor1,5, Matthew Bailes1, Ronald Ekers2, Jean-Pierre Macquart3, and Fronefield Crawford III4 1 Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Mail H39, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia;
[email protected] 2 CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping NSW 1710, Australia 3 ICRAR/Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604, USA Received 2010 July 19; accepted 2010 October 29; published 2010 December 28 ABSTRACT Three years ago, the report of a solitary radio burst was thought to be the first discovery of a rare, impulsive event of unknown extragalactic origin.