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Caption: Figure 3.
The event from Figure 2 centered to 2400.014593 MHz (bottom row) shown below two prior five-minute scans of the same target in the same frequency range (top two rows). All three rows are dynamic spectrum pairs with the same characteristics as Figure 2, with all six subplots normalized to the on-beam of the bottom row. The first row was taken 18 minutes 34 s before the bottom row, and the middle row was taken 6 minutes 11 s before the bottom row. Note that the signal is present in all scans with varying start frequency and morphology, but that the intensity difference between the on- and off-beams is different between the bottom row and the top two rows: slightly brighter in the off-beam rather than the on-beam. A wobbling narrowband signal of this nature could be due to a periodic local RFI source or an artifact internal to the ATA system; regardless of source, it is definitively not originating from the sky position of LTT 3780.
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