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has glosseng: Little green men 1 (LGM-1) was the explanation given to a famous astronomical observation. In 1967, a radio signal was detected in a UK observatory by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The signal had a 1.3373 second period and 0.04 second pulsewidth. It originated at celestial coordinates 19:19 right ascension, 21 degrees declination. It was detected by individual observation of miles of graphical data traces. Due to its almost perfect regularity, it was at first assumed to be spurious noise, but this hypothesis was promptly discarded. After that, the discoverers proposed an alternative explanation that the signal might be a beacon or a communication from an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization and named it LGM-1 (LGM = "Little Green Men").
lexicalizationeng: LGM-1
instance of(noun) a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation
pulsar
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has glossfra: LGM-1 est le nom de code donné par les radioastronomes Jocelyn Bell et Antony Hewish au premier signal effectivement identifié dun pulsar, en 1967 . À lépoque de la détection de ce signal, J. Bell et A. Hewish ignoraient quelle pouvait être la nature exacte de ce signal, dont lextrême régularité évoquait un possible signal de nature extra-terrestre. Pour cette raison, le signal fut appelé un temps sous le nom de code de LGM-1, acronyme de Little Green Men-1, (litt. « Petits Hommes Verts-1 »). Ce nom ne fut jamais officiellement révélé, les auteurs de la découverte craignant que lattrait de la presse pour la possible détection dun signal extraterrestre ne les empêche de travailler sereinement. Ce nest quaprès avoir identifié un possible processus physique à lorigine de ce signal (pulsations dune naine blanche ou dune étoile à neutrons) que lannonce de la découverte fut faite, sans mention notable à lhypothèse extraterrestre qui avait été exclue.
lexicalizationfra: LGM-1
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has glosspor: Little Green Men 1 (LGM-1) foi a explicação dada para uma famosa observação astronômica. Em 1967, um sinal foi detectado num observatório do Reino Unido por Jocelyn Bell e Antony Hewish. O sinal possuía um período de 1,3373 segundos, e 0,04 MLP (modulação por largura de pulso) por segundo, localizado nas coordenadas celestes 19:19 de ascensão reta e 21 graus de declinação.
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