When radio telescopes were first used to make detailed maps of the sky in the 1950s, many strong
sources of radio emission seemed to have no counterparts in visible light.
However, the researchers pointed out, the remaining 4
percent of the radio emission could be coming from as many as 100 billion very faint objects.
This band covers a wide
range of radio emission lines from various atoms and molecules, and one of the most attractive targets is the emission from atomic carbon at 0.6 mm.
Ask an astronomer what the top 10 unsolved mysteries in the universe are, and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)-- intense
bursts of radio emissions lasting mere milliseconds — would definitely figure on the list.
Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses
of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.
A team of astronomers associated with Australia's Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope announced Monday the discovery of three new Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)-- intense bursts
of radio emission lasting mere milliseconds.
The scientists identified the two new aldehydes by detecting a number of frequencies
of radio emission in what is termed the K - band region (18 to 26 GHz) of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Previous studies had measured the
amount of radio emission coming from the distant Universe, but had not been capable of attributing all the radio waves to specific objects.
«I like to think
of these radio emissions as being simply a long - wavelength emission, much longer than optical wavelengths, that are tied up with the same processes that produce the auroras,» Kurth says.
Discovered initially by lighthouse - like
beams of radio emission, more recent research has found that energetic pulsars also produce beams of high energy gamma rays.
Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright
spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief
spurts of radio emission, lasting just one - thousandth of a second, whose origins are mysterious.
Quasars turn out to be prodigious
broadcasters of radio emissions, issuing faint whispers of smooth jazz and shadow traffic from across the inky vastness of Space.
Instead of finding something symmetrical, as expected, the researchers observed an odd, cigar - shaped
area of radio emission.
If Mercury were tidally locked, its dark face would be extremely cold, but measurements
of radio emission revealed that it was much hotter than expected.
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.
Over the past few weeks, radio telescopes around the world have been straining to catch some
whiff of radio emission.
The
type of radio emission seen in the brown dwarfs arises in more - massive stars as a result of plasma interacting with the star's magnetic field.
«Since both stars and the planets in our Solar System produce radio emission, detailed
study of the radio emission properties of these brown dwarfs may enable us to distinguish where the boundary between stellar and planetary behavior occurs in these not - quite - stars, not - quite - planets,» Osten explained.
The champagne flow model from a flat, thin molecular cloud is used to explain the
morphology of radio emission with respect to the millimetre cloud and infrared brightness.
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.
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to make the first
detection of radio emission from a cosmic gamma - ray burst.
For the first time, astronomers have determined the intrinsic size and shape of the highly charged
region of radio emission surrounding what most scientists believe to be a supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy.
It did not disappoint; on September 3, the VLA found a new source
of radio emission where one had not previously existed.
The gamma - ray and X-ray burst lasts no more than a few minutes, while the ejected particles, interacting with the star's magnetic field, can produce detectable amounts
of radio emission for several days.
That same year, another team made an even more - detailed image of the region that showed not only the mini-spiral but also a distinct, separate
point of radio emission corresponding to the exact center of the Galaxy.
The satellite also will aim at regions in the sky where giant collections of water and other molecules act as natural
amplifiers of radio emission much as lasers amplify light.
For example, the quasar PKS 2209 +152, nearly 9 billion light - years distant, should, according to the Nodland and Ralston «corkscrew» hypothesis, have had the
polarization of its radio emission rotated by about 90 degrees.
In the Spring of 1994, scientists were observing an X-ray emitting object called GRS 1915 +105, which had just shown an
outburst of radio emission.
The «active» part of the galaxy is the supermassive black hole in its core, which spews out strong jets of energetic particles that produce enormous
lobes of radio emission.
Unimaginably powerful
sources of radio emissions, brighter than entire galaxies, quasars were initially viewed as mysterious objects found billions of light - years from us but unknown in our own galactic neighborhood.
For nearly a decade now, Fast Radio Bursts (FRB)-- intense bursts
of radio emission lasting mere milliseconds — have puzzled scientists.
The team of researchers used
measurements of radio emissions, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in the desert of northern Chile, starting in 2015, to detect and map signs of cold gas in the Phoenix cluster.
For over a decade, Fast Radio Bursts (FRB)-- intense
bursts of radio emission lasting mere milliseconds — have continued to baffle scientists.
VLA image (green)
of radio emission from HCN gas, superimposed on Hubble Space Telescope image of the Cloverleaf galaxy.