Editing Astronomical radio source (section)

====Rotating Radio Transient (RRAT) Sources ====
[[Rotating radio transient]]s (RRATs) are a type of neutron stars discovered in 2006 by a team led by [[Maura McLaughlin]] from the [[Jodrell Bank Observatory]] at the [[University of Manchester]] in the UK. RRATs are believed to produce radio emissions which are very difficult to locate, because of their transient nature.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=new-kind-of-star-found |title=New Kind of Star Found |author=David Biello |publisher=[[Scientific American]] |date=2006-02-16 |access-date=2010-06-23 |archive-date=2007-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119130837/http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=new-kind-of-star-found |url-status=live }}</ref> Early efforts have been able to detect radio emissions (sometimes called '''RRAT flashes''')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/24227/1/0602092 |title=RRAT flash |publisher=Physics World |author=Jodrell Bank Observatory |access-date=2010-06-23 |archive-date=2011-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519201228/http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/24227/1/0602092 |url-status=live }}</ref> for less than one second a day, and, like with other single-burst signals, one must take great care to distinguish them from terrestrial radio interference. Distributing computing and the Astropulse algorithm may thus lend itself to further detection of RRATs.