• Gork@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The precise location in the sky where the signal apparently originated is uncertain due to the design of the Big Ear telescope, which featured two feed horns, each receiving a beam from slightly different directions, while following Earth’s rotation. The Wow! signal was detected in one beam but not in the other, and the data was processed in such a way that it is impossible to determine which of the two horns received the signal. There are, therefore, two possible right ascension (RA) values for the location of the signal

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    The significantly more sensitive Very Large Array did not detect the signal

    If it was only detected in one feed horn, is it possible that the feed horn that picked up the signal registered a false positive? Or did the feed horn that didn’t pick up the signal malfunction?

    Just trying to find out if we can rule out equipment failure.