Can PSR J0024-7204O system been reached with a carrier?
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No.
Ah a wise man I see, that way lies many, many words of explanation.
Beyond any reasonable doubt, the answer is no: it's not even close to being reachable. There are no stars that bridge the gap between reachable systems (the galactic plane) and that star.
There's a lot of problems to list, but just to name a couple: you would need a 10,000 ly chain of catalog stars, which is astronomically improbable; and such a discovery would break the current record of Rackham's Peak by several thousand ly. I wouldn't be so far as to say that we have found the absolute top, but it's definitely not that high up.
There's a lot of problems to list, but just to name a couple: you would need a 10,000 ly chain of catalog stars, which is astronomically improbable; and such a discovery would break the current record of Rackham's Peak by several thousand ly. I wouldn't be so far as to say that we have found the absolute top, but it's definitely not that high up.
Ah, that explains what would otherwise be an odd coincidence: why is Rackham's Peak, the highest reachable star in the galaxy, so close to the Bubble?
It's because that's where the imported star-catalogue stars (spotted by Earth-based astronomers) are clustered. So it's possible to predict that no higher/lower reachable star will exist above/below any distant galactic sector: because of the lack of catalogued stars out there.
It explains why Rackham's Peak is there, but by no means are all cat stars clustered around the bubble, for instance these are all cat stars in the KOI catalogue;
The furthest being some 34,000ly away and the highest being at least twice as high as Rackham's Peak.
There are no systems deeper.
On the other hand all those system are undiscovered. Getting my tag on it ;-)
On the other hand all those system are undiscovered. Getting my tag on it ;-)