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Old 20-December-2008, 01:51 AM
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So could a rapidly rotating nearby BD be the cause of these accelerated electrons?
There is no indication that a brown dwarf would produce such extremely high energy electrons.

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But what do you think it might be, Van Rijn?
Dark Matter? A Black Hole?
It would have to be from something that could produce extremely high energy electrons. That might be a black hole, neutron star, maybe dark matter.
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