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Galactic hum

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-05-01 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

A number of earth's tremor spectral peaks show a persistent narrow bandwidth incompatible with any geophysical or instrumental origin. These peaks, located at frequencies lower than a few mHz, are in principle consistent with the earth strain waves induced by monochromatic gravitational waves. Exploring this hypothesis under the current cosmological constraints yields that the tremor peaks below 2 mHz are in apparently significant coincidence with the theoretical emission of two binary systems each consisting of a small main sequence star with mass 101M\sim 10^{-1} M_{\odot}, captured by Sgr A* in a close orbit.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.08983,
  title  = {Galactic hum},
  author = {Francesco Mulargia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08983},
  year   = {2017}
}
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