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WEBER1–4 has reported bursts of gravitational radiation apparently arriving from the direction of our galactic centre (or anti-centre). The resulting mass-loss implied by the estimated energy flux of nearly 100 W cm−2 at Earth has caused much theoretical discussion5–8 with regard to possible source models. This reported high gravitational flux at Earth suggests a search for accompanying electromagnetic bursts from the same direction. Such searches have already been made for microwaves9,10, X-rays11,12 and neutrinos13,14. All of these searches establish very small upper limits on the ratio of electromagnetic (or neutrino) to gravitational energy flux at Earth; however, radio pulses noncoincident with Weber's pulses have recently been reported15. Here we report the results of our search for bursts of infrared radiation from the galactic centre region.
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SLUSHER, R., TYSON, J. Physical Sciences: Search for Infrared Anomalies associated with Gravitational Events at the Galactic Centre. Nature 243, 25 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243025a0
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