Alien Light Sails
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| Category | Progenitor | Type | Energy Mechanism | Emission Mechanism | Counterparts | References | Brief Comments | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LF Radio | HF Radio | Microwave | Terahertz | Optical/IR | X-rays | Gamma-rays | Gravitational Waves | Neutrinos | |||||||
| Other | Alien Light Sails | Repeat | Artificial transmitter | -- | Yes | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.01109.pdf | Highly speculative. |
Definitions: LF Radio (3 MHz to 3 GHz); HF Radio (3 GHz to 30 GHz); Microwave (30 to 300 GHz)
Model Description
Extragalactic, artificial beam-powered light sails have been proposed as an FRB theory, however such a concept is highly speculative.
Observational Constraints
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