Reprocessed radio data uncovers violent activity from nearby dwarf stars
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Scientists developed a new technique called RIMS that reprocesses old radio telescope data to detect rapid stellar activity previously missed by conventional methods, analyzing 1.4 years of archived observations to produce 200,000 time-resolved spectra from nearby stars and exoplanet systems. The reprocessed data revealed intense radio bursts that may indicate magnetic interactions between stars and their planets, offering the first practical method to indirectly study exoplanet magnetic fields.
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