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What events are being considered?
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Still a mystery but a neutron star in another galaxy is one consideration.
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Originally Posted by McGill University Newsroom
Intriguingly, the most likely implication of the new Arecibo finding – that the repeating FRB originates from a very young extragalactic neutron star – is at odds with the results of a study published last week in Nature by another research team. That paper suggested FRBs are related to cataclysmic events, such as short gamma-ray bursts, which can not generate repeat events. “However, the apparent conflict between the studies could be resolved, if it turns out that there are at least two kinds of FRB sources”, notes McGill physics professor Victoria Kaspi, a senior member of the international team that conducted the Arecibo study.
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Originally Posted by McGill University Newsroom
“Once we have precisely localized the repeater’s position on the sky, we will be able to compare observations from optical and X-ray telescopes and see if there is a galaxy there,” says Jason Hessels, associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy as well as corresponding author of the Nature paper. “Finding the host galaxy of this source is critical to understanding its properties”, he adds.
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