Sentences with phrase «detecting fast radio bursts»

«The CHIME telescope in Penticton, British Columbia, should be an excellent instrument for detecting fast radio bursts and studying their polarization properties,» says Shriharsh Tendulkar, postdoctoral researcher at the McGill Space Institute.

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Until now, only about a dozen Fast Radio Bursts have been detected on Earth.

Fast radio bursts, which astronomers refer to as FRBs, were first discovered in 2007, and in the years since radio astronomers have detected a few dozen of these events.

Only a few fast radio bursts have ever been detected, and most appear as one - off events.

«Fast radio bursts» detected here on Earth last only a thousandth of a second, but are the result of a faraway source briefly shining a billion or more times brighter than our sun.

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.

Dark matter hitting black holes could be the source of some fast radio bursts — mysterious blasts of radio waves that come from billions of light years away, first detected 10 years ago.

Only a handful of these rapid, millisecond - duration events, known as «fast radio bursts» (FRBs), had been detected previously, all of them by a single instrument — the Parkes Observatory in Australia.

The phenomena, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs, were first detected in 2007 by astronomers scouring archival data from Australia's Parkes Telescope, a 64 - meter diameter dish best known for its role receiving live televison images from the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

The catch with fast radio bursts, notes Vandenbroucke, is that they are mostly random and they last for only a few milliseconds, too fast to routinely detect or conduct follow - up observations with radio and optical telescopes.

The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia has picked up the brightest fast radio burst ever detected

With a signal - to - noise ratio of 411, that event was the brightest fast radio burst detected so far by quite a wide margin.

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected 10 years ago.

The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia has picked up the brightest fast radio burst ever detected (Credit: < a href ="https://depositphotos.com/39535225/stock-photo-radio-telescope-dish-in-parkes.html" rel="nofollow"> ribeiroantonio / Depositphotos )

First detected back in 2007, fast radio bursts (FRB's) are a phenomenon that has had physicists mystified ever since they were first discovered.

The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia has picked up the brightest fast radio burst ever detected (Credit: ribeiroantonio / Depositphotos)

The object, identified as FRB 121102, is located in a dwarf galaxy some three billion light years from Earth and was first detected giving off a fast radio burst back in November 2012, according to New Scientist.