Overview

• New arXiv preprints from the AWOW project report a peak flux density near 250 Janskys, roughly four times many prior estimates.
• The signal’s frequency is revised to 1420.726 MHz, a shift near the hydrogen line that implies faster source motion within the Milky Way.
• Researchers narrowed the sky region of origin with about a two-thirds gain in location certainty, providing refined coordinates for follow-up.
• The team rules out known man-made transmitters, satellites, moon-bounce, and simple instrument or software errors as likely causes.
• The work, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, builds on OCR of more than 75,000 preserved Big Ear pages and advances a cold hydrogen cloud brightening—potentially magnetar-triggered—as a leading natural explanation.