No connection whatsoever. We have received radio "signals" from space since the accidental invention of radio astronomy in 1933. No more weird than receiving visual "signals" called starlight. Many stars are observed to pulsate, and this is just another example.
These are Fast Radio Bursts and very recently discovered (2007). As I have said many times before though most space related stories are comms of some kind.
Note that within this wiki it relates the power of a FRB when it reaches earth as 1000 times less than what a cell phone on the moon would generate and that in the second article quoted that 100 or more of these reach earth everyday with a very small chance at detection.
In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB) is a transient radio pulse of length ranging from a fraction of a millisecond, for a ultra-fast radio burst,[2][3] to 3 seconds,[4] caused by some high-energy astrophysical process not yet understood. Astronomers estimate the average FRB releases as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun puts out in three days.[5] While extremely energetic at their source, the strength of the signal reaching Earth has been described as 1,000 times less than from a mobile phone on the Moon.[6] The first FRB was discovered by Duncan Lorimer and his student David Narkevic in 2007 when they were looking through archival pulsar survey data, and it is therefore commonly referred to as the Lorimer Burst.[7][8] Many FRBs have since been recorded, including several that have been detected to repeat in seemingly irregular ways.[9][10][11][12][13] Only one FRB has been detected to repeat in a regular way: FRB 180916 seems to pulse every 16.35 days.[14][15]
Fast radio bursts are intense bursts of radio emission that have durations of milliseconds and exhibit the characteristic dispersion sweep of radio pulsars. The first was discovered in 2007 by Lorimer et al., although it was actually observed some six years earlier, in archival data from a pulsar survey of the Magellanic clouds. It was dubbed the “Lorimer Burst”.
Like giant pulses from radio pulsars like the Crab, the first burst was extremely intense (30 Jy peak flux) and observed across a 288 MHz radio band. The dispersion measure of the radio burst was 375 pc cm-3 and was near the location of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The limited dynamic range of the instrumentation prohibited an exact measure of the flux, but it has been estimated that several 100 bursts could occur every day with a small probability of detection.
Good dig. I recall reading that certain stars (neutron stars, I think) become pulsars and emit strong signals along their rotational axis. The likelihood of detection would therefore be related to the coincidence of being within the cone of radiation. But there are more stars out there than we can see, so there is no shortage of cases that would work.
No connection whatsoever. We have received radio "signals" from space since the accidental invention of radio astronomy in 1933. No more weird than receiving visual "signals" called starlight. Many stars are observed to pulsate, and this is just another example.
These are Fast Radio Bursts and very recently discovered (2007). As I have said many times before though most space related stories are comms of some kind.
Note that within this wiki it relates the power of a FRB when it reaches earth as 1000 times less than what a cell phone on the moon would generate and that in the second article quoted that 100 or more of these reach earth everyday with a very small chance at detection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/F/Fast+Radio+Bursts
Good dig. I recall reading that certain stars (neutron stars, I think) become pulsars and emit strong signals along their rotational axis. The likelihood of detection would therefore be related to the coincidence of being within the cone of radiation. But there are more stars out there than we can see, so there is no shortage of cases that would work.