Episode 50 - Arecibo Wow! with Professor Abel Mendez

Released: 11 September 2024
Interview Recorded: 22 August 2024
Duration: 67 minutes, 19 seconds

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We welcome back Professor Abel Mendez from the University of Puerto Rico to tell us about recent research into data from the Arecibo radio telescope into cold hydrogen clouds and a proposed natural explanation for the Big Ear Wow! Signal that we covered in depth in Episode 19.

We recommend you download the draft paper so you can follow along.

Links:

Arecibo Wow! I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow! Signal

Our episode (#19) with Big Ear scientist Bob Dixon

A previous appearance by Abel Mendez on this podcast.

Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico

The Arecibo Radio Telescope Collapse

The FAST Radio Telescope

Astrophysical MASERs (microwave lasers)

Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Masers

Population Inversion (Wikipedia)

The Hydrogen 21 cm line

MASERs, Interstellar and Circumstellar, Theory.

Credits

Host, editor, producer: Paul Carr

Music: Quincas Moreira (Black Swan), George Hrab (Far), Jason Robinson

Episode 50 of the Wow! Signal Podcast© 2024 by Paul Carr is licensed under CC BY 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/