Lead author and Ph.D. student Kovi Rose from the University of Sydney’s School of Physics and CSIRO said this provides the first confirmed identification of what astronomers call “long-period radio transients”: cosmic pulses discovered from just a few remote regions of our galaxy. “For the first time we have pinpointed the origin of these signals, confirming the source to be a ‘cataclysmic variable,” or an accreting white dwarf star,” said Mr. Rose.
