Sentences with phrase «of fast radio bursts»

With the discovery of fast radio bursts, astronomers once again navigate the path from weird result to verified science.

An image showing the source of the Fast radio burst FRB121102 — a dwarf galaxy three billion light - years from Earth.

The new technique will be important for analyzing the abundance of observations of Fast Radio Bursts that advanced radio - signal observatories, now being planned, are expected to detect.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

Artist's impression of a fast radio burst appearing in the sky above the 64 - m Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia.

For the first time, astronomers have pinpointed the location in the sky of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), allowing them to determine the distance and home galaxy of one of these mysterious pulses of radio waves.

Chatterjee, S., C.J. Law, R.S. Wharton, S. Burke - Spolaor, J.W.T. Hessels, G.C. Bower, J.M. Cordes, et al., A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host, Nature, 541, 7635, pp. 58 - 61, 2017

«With abundant observational information in the future, we can gain a better understanding of the physical nature of Fast Radio Bursts,» said Peter Mészáros, Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Professor of Physics at Penn State, the senior author of the research paper.

The discovery, the first - ever finding of non-radio emission from any fast radio burst, drastically raises the stakes for models of fast radio bursts and is expected to further energize efforts by astronomers to chase down and identify long - lived counterparts to fast radio bursts using X-ray, optical, and radio telescopes.

Polarimetry of the fast radio burst source FRB121102.

«We can not say yet if there are two classes with different properties, or if it's one class of fast radio bursts and they just happen to be seen in different configurations,» Michilli says.

For more than a decade, researchers have sought to solve the puzzle of fast radio bursts, millisecond chirps of radio waves that seem to appear at random in the sky, likely from unknown sources millions or even billions of light - years away.

One repeating example of a fast radio burst has finally been pinned down to a tiny and distant dwarf galaxy, narrowing down its precise origin

SNATCHING SIGNALS Most of the fast radio bursts seen to date have been recorded by the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.

With more data and more luck, I expect that we'll eventually solve the mystery of fast radio bursts too,» he adds.

«Right now the science of fast radio bursts is where we were with gamma - ray bursts 30 years ago.

One of the big unknowns of fast radio bursts is their distances.

NEW images peg a neutron star in a stellar nursery as the source of the fast radio burst FRB 121102, coming from a dwarf galaxy 2.4 billion light years from Earth.

For the first time, astronomers pinpointed the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), which is a phenomena where a very strong burst of radio emission occurs.

Breakthrough Listen has to date recorded data from a dozen FRBs, including FRB 121102, and plans eventually to sample all 30 - some known sources of fast radio bursts.

They did this by following up an observation of a fast radio burst (FRB) and seeing a galaxy with a radio «afterglow» in the same direction.

2014 GMT Annual Science Meeting, Washington DC, USA - Talk Title: Real - time discovery of Fast Radio Bursts: Polarization and Multi-wavelength Follow - up

While Law has his pet hypothesis about the origin of fast radio bursts — a magnetar surrounded by either material ejected by a supernova explosion or material ejected by a resulting pulsar — there are other possibilities.

Artist impression of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) reaching Earth.

For the first time, astronomers have pinpointed the location in the sky of a Fast Radio Burst, allowing them to determine the distance and home galaxy of one of these mysterious pulses of radio waves.

Artist's impression of the dishes of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array making the first - ever precision localization of a Fast Radio Burst.

MeerLICHT, a 65 - centimeter optical telescope, is expected to help identify the sources of fast radio bursts (FRBs)-- extremely brief, energetic flashes of radio waves from remote galaxies.

The source of the fast radio burst is within 100 light years of the continuous radio emissions from the core of the galaxy, suggesting they are the same or physically associated with one another.

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.

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.

That points to neutron stars — which form when short - lived massive stars in stellar nurseries die — as the source of fast radio bursts.