Geomagnetic storms suppress transients on old Palomar plates and controlling for them strengthens the nuclear test correlation to 3.1 sigma.
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Independent pipeline recovers 63.9% of a prior 5,399-source vanished catalog from POSS-I plates, produces 2.85 million new candidates, and finds no significant temporal association in candidate counts.
Transient images on archival plates exhibit coma aberration consistent with real astronomical sources, distinguishing them from artifacts.
Plate sensitivity shows no variation with geomagnetic storm intensity in two major historical archives, falsifying an airglow-based artifact explanation for prior claims of Kp-dependent transient suppression.
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Geomagnetic storm suppression of photographic plate transient detections in the POSS-I archive: an independent physical variable strengthening the nuclear test correlation
Geomagnetic storms suppress transients on old Palomar plates and controlling for them strengthens the nuclear test correlation to 3.1 sigma.
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Independent Recovery of Vanishing Sources on POSS-I Photographic Plates Using Automated Source Detection and Cross-Epoch Matching
Independent pipeline recovers 63.9% of a prior 5,399-source vanished catalog from POSS-I plates, produces 2.85 million new candidates, and finds no significant temporal association in candidate counts.
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Fast Astronomical Transients in Archival Photographic Plates: Using optical aberrations as a tool for discerning real images, from plate artifacts
Transient images on archival plates exhibit coma aberration consistent with real astronomical sources, distinguishing them from artifacts.
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Plate Sensitivity Is Invariant Across Geomagnetic Storm Intensity at Harvard and Palomar: A Protocol for Artifact Control in Historical Plate Archive Studies
Plate sensitivity shows no variation with geomagnetic storm intensity in two major historical archives, falsifying an airglow-based artifact explanation for prior claims of Kp-dependent transient suppression.