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28-06-2019, 11:25 AM
In a story today (https://phys.org/news/2019-06-astronomers-history.html)by Issam Ahmed at AFP, it is reported that a CSIRO team
using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio
telescope in Western Australia has managed to pinpoint a Fast Radio
Burst (FRB) to its home galaxy, DES J214425.25?405400.81, about 3.6
billion light years away.
85 FRB's have been detected since they were first discovered in 2007 and they remain a mystery.
In a millisecond they can emit as much energy as the Sun does in 10,000 years.
Most appear to give a one-off burst but some have been repeaters.
Their results have been published in a paper in Science.
Story here :-
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-astronomers-history.html
Full paper (free).
K.W. Bannister el al., "A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance," Science (2019). :-
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/06/26/science.aaw5903
using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio
telescope in Western Australia has managed to pinpoint a Fast Radio
Burst (FRB) to its home galaxy, DES J214425.25?405400.81, about 3.6
billion light years away.
85 FRB's have been detected since they were first discovered in 2007 and they remain a mystery.
In a millisecond they can emit as much energy as the Sun does in 10,000 years.
Most appear to give a one-off burst but some have been repeaters.
Their results have been published in a paper in Science.
Story here :-
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-astronomers-history.html
Full paper (free).
K.W. Bannister el al., "A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance," Science (2019). :-
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/06/26/science.aaw5903