Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow signal

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Re: Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow signal

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Post by privong » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:00 PM UTC

Beldin wrote: post #40

privong wrote: post #36

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> How would you fix it? "Astronomer finds an exoplanet which fits exclusion criteria if WOW! Signal is intelligent in origin"? As far as I can tell there's not even evidence of an exoplanet around that star (likely because that star hasn't been searched for evidence of an exoplanet). The arXiv preprint basically amounts to "Identification of a Sun-like star in the same part of the sky where the 'Wow' signal originate…

> "Identification of a Sun-like star in the same part of the sky where the 'Wow' signal originated." Even that is clickbaity - it fails to account how likely it was to find such a star in that volume of space. That would at least offer some analysis of the situation.

> Even that is clickbaity - it fails to account how likely it was to find such a star in that volume of space.

Yeah. I should've been more clear that I was only meaning that as a summary of the article, not as a replacement title.

Re: Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow signal

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Post by benpanter » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 9:54 AM UTC

partisan wrote: post #28

benpanter wrote: post #24

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The "paper" is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090 but its analysis is not really something that you'd get published in an astronomy journal [speaking as a former professional astronomer]

Sorry to pry, but what does one do after a professional astronomy career?

In my case, I founded a company based on the algorithmic approaches I developed as an academic - www.blackfordanalysis.com

Folks who did their PhDs about the same time as me, and progressed through a couple of postdoc positions, are variously: science teachers, data scientists, product managers, quants, environmental analysts, software engineers, hardware engineers and industrial scientists.

In the UK, fewer than one in ten astronomers who take a first astronomy job post-PhD (usually called a postdoc) progress to a permanent faculty position. Those that do make the journey typically take about a decade and three to four fixed-term positions to get there.

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