Astronomers double the number of repeating cosmic probes
A Canadian-led research team has doubled the number of repeating fast radio bursts, adding 25 new 'cosmic probes'.
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A wobbling magnetized star challenges the origin of repeating fast radio bursts
An international research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has used the Effelsberg and Jodrell Bank radio telescopes to observe the precessing magnetar XTE ...
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Apr 8, 2024
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University students develop AI to detect fast radio bursts
West Virginia University's Duncan Lorimer might be the godfather of the fast radio burst, but a pair of international students has taken exploring these mysterious cosmic flashes to a new level.
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Jun 23, 2020
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ASKAP telescope to rule radio-burst hunt
A CSIRO telescope in Western Australia has found its first 'fast radio burst' from space after less than four days of searching.
Astronomy
May 22, 2017
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Measuring distances in the universe with fast radio bursts
Now and then there is a bright radio flash somewhere in the sky. It can last anywhere from a few milliseconds to a few seconds. They appear somewhat at random, and we still aren't sure what they are. We call them fast radio ...
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Feb 13, 2024
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Real-time alert system heralds new era in fast radio burst research
McGill University scientists have developed a new system for sharing the enormous amount of data being generated by the CHIME radio telescope in its search for fast radio bursts (FRBs), the puzzling extragalactic phenomenon ...
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Jan 4, 2022
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FAST captures distant fast radio bursts from the youth of universe
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a kind of mysterious radio flash lasting only a few thousandths of a second. Confirmed to be of cosmological origin in 2016, FRBs have the potential to provide insights into a wide range of astrophysical ...
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Mar 11, 2021
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COSMIC: Expanding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
In a groundbreaking cosmic quest, the SETI Institute's Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster (COSMIC) at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is expanding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence ...
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Jan 8, 2024
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Microwave imaging of quasi-periodic pulsations at flare current sheet
Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs; also known as quasi-periodic oscillations, i.e., QPOs) are electromagnetic emission phenomena that vary quasi-periodically with time. They appear in celestial transient events with different ...
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Jan 4, 2023
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Zadko telescope and Parkes 'dish' join hunt for mystery radio flashes
The University of Western Australia's Zadko Telescope and the Parkes Radio Telescope have joined forces in a new mission involving an international team of radio astronomers to hunt for mystery radio bursts in the universe.
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