Serendipitous discovery of radio flaring behaviour from a nearby M dwarf with MeerKAT

17. 10 2021

Exoplanets

Radio signals from nearby red dwarfs could come from yet unknown exoplanets

Astronomers looked at the nearby red dwarfs to analyze radio waves coming from them. In most cases they caught waves from magnetically active stars, which was no surprise, however 4 of the stars generating radio waves were not magnetic. In their newly published study the scientists propose the signals coming from yet unseen exoplanets. If confirmed, radio signals could become a new way for detecting exoplanets.