Radio astronomers revealed that the first gamma - ray burster ever detected at radio wavelengths has surprised them by its erratic behavior.
Not exact matches
The team also analyzed the
radio waves in a new way,
revealing that what looked like individual bursts were actually composed of many smaller sub-bursts, says
astronomer Andrew Seymour of the Universities Space Research Association at Arecibo.
Massive planets — «super Jupiters» circling stars beyond the Sun — also might
reveal themselves through bursts of
radio emission at the frequency of this survey, the
astronomers speculated.
The
radio astronomers have observed the object on a near - daily basis since then, and that monitoring has
revealed the burster's unexpected behavior.
The
radio observations have
revealed a size of the fireball, unobtainable by any other technique, thereby enabling
astronomers to learn about inner workings of such objects,» said Shri Kulkarni, professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).