VIVA – Scientists have detected radio emissions from planet orbiting a star outside the Sun, for the first time. They used radio telescopes in the Netherlands to study three different stars eksoplanet.
Reporting from the site Space, Friday, December 18, 2020, researchers compared what they saw on the planet Jupiter, which seems to be tens of light years away, with Tau Bootes, a star that has at least one exoplanet.
If the detection is successful, it could open the door to a better understanding of the magnetic field of the suspected home area alien that. researcher Jake Turner said the first clues to detecting an exoplanet were in the radio realm.
“We are making a case of the emissions produced by the planet itself. From the strength and polarization of the radio signal and the planet’s magnetic field, this is compatible with theoretical predictions,” he said.
However, Turner and his colleagues are not yet convinced that the signal they detected actually came from a planet dubbed Tau Bootes. Researchers requested additional observations of the system, which is about 51 light years from Earth to the constellation Bootes.
They had previously studied the planet’s radio emissions from Jupiter, and then adjusted the measurements to get the effect of how close the star was to Earth’s distance, then compared it to an exoplanet and its host star.
Researchers are interested in detecting radio emissions from planets because such information can help scientists work out what is happening in magnetic fields. The Earth’s magnetic field has enabled us to survive, and it can also tell scientists about other qualities of a world, such as its structure and history.
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