Meaning of peryton | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fictional creature having the head and forelegs of a stag and the wings and hindquarters of a bird.
2. A radio signal which appears to come from outside the galaxy but is actually produced by terrestrial sources.

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“Then, quite unexpectedly, when I had been staring at them for a long time, the shape⟳ of a peryton seemed to spring⟳ out as distinctly as if the bird's whole body had been powdered with the dust ground from diamonds.”

“The peryton also makes an appearance, in a nod to its inventor, Borges — who compiled his own⟳ bestiary, “The Book of Imaginary Beings,” itself supposedly based on a long-lost medieval text.”

“Despite a trend mimicking that expected from dispersion, such deviations decisively distinguish the pulses’ frequency-dependence from a delay⟳ induced by interstellar propagation. Hereafter we distinguish these detections with the name⟳ “Perytons,” representing the non-dispersive, highly swept, terrestrial signals exhibited by the pulses. (The name⟳ is chosen from mythology to be unassociated with an exact physical phenomenon, due to the ambiguous origin of the detections; Perytons are winged elk that cast⟳ the shadow of a man.)”

“Three of these FRBs are factors of >3 narrower than any documented peryton.”

“In this model⟳, the Lorimer burst⟳, which was detected in three adjacent beams of the multibeam receiver, occupies a place⟳ between traditional FRB events and traditional peryton events and is believed to have⟳ occurred at some distance from the detector close⟳ to the Fresnel scale for Parkes, 20 km.”

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