Sentences with phrase «called fast radio bursts»

Currently my work focuses on an exciting new type of object called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)-- powerful bursts of radio light coming from outside our Galaxy!

In recent radio surveys at Parkes astronomers looking for new pulsars also found a new type of pulsed object since called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).

It has been instrumental in tasks as diverse as monitoring near - Earth asteroids, watching for bright blasts of energy called fast radio bursts and searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

However, newly published research suggests that mysterious phenomena called fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology.

Arecibo's recent work includes searching for gravitational waves by the effect they have on the clocklike regularity of dead stars called pulsars; watching for mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (SN Online: 12/21/16); and keeping tabs on near - Earth asteroids.

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events.

Not exact matches

Astronomers call these powerful flashes Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).

Last week a team claimed to have traced a fast radio burst to its source for the first time, but new observations this weekend call the result into question

The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio bursts from this object, called FRB 121102, are nearly 100 percent linearly polarized, an indication that the source of the bursts is embedded in strong magnetic fields like those around a massive black hole.