Sentences with phrase «radio bursts as»

They are also developing (with Dr. Kent Wood of NRL) a model that attempts to account for the radio bursts as a new type of outburst from a class of sources known as «magnetars.»

«It could be created by a superluminous supernova or a long gamma ray burst, and then later on, as it evolves and its rotation slows down a bit, it produces these fast radio bursts as well as continuous radio emission powered by that spindown.

«When more - powerful detectors provide us with more observations,» Mészáros said, «we also will be able to use Fast Radio Bursts as a probe of their host galaxies, of the space between galaxies, of the cosmic - web structure of the universe, and as a test of fundamental physics.»

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Like a burst transmission of radio waves his entreaties shot out en masse, with Dietl pulsing with energy as he quickly accelerated to top take - de Blasio - out speed.

The number of wave crests arriving from Fast Radio Bursts per second — their «frequency» — is in the same range as that of radio sigRadio Bursts per second — their «frequency» — is in the same range as that of radio sigradio signals.

Penn State University astronomers have discovered that the mysterious «cosmic whistles» known as fast radio bursts can pack a serious punch, in some cases releasing a billion times more energy in gamma - rays than they do in radio waves and rivaling the stellar cataclysms known as supernovae in their explosive power.

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.

Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

The impact of the new method using Fast Radio Bursts is expected to increase significantly as more of the bursts are observed, and if their origin can be established more fBursts is expected to increase significantly as more of the bursts are observed, and if their origin can be established more fbursts are observed, and if their origin can be established more firmly.

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

Combined with the fact that bursts seem to evolve from energetic gamma rays to X-rays to visible light, which means they cool off over time, the radio data supported the idea that they are huge fireballs, expanding at near - light - speed and cooling as they go.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs): a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

This detection follows 11 previously recorded outbursts of radio waves from the same location, the only known repeater in a class of enigmatic eruptions known as fast radio bursts.

As the name implies, fast radio bursts are millisecond - long flashes of radio emission.

Lorimer says his team next plans to reexamine the Parkes data, as well as other archives of radio signals, to see if similar bursts turn up.

It packed as much energy in its mere 5 - millisecond duration as the sun puts out in a month, making it by far the strongest, quickest signal radio astronomers have observed, although it wasn't nearly as powerful as the elusive gamma ray bursts that populate the universe.

Because radio signals travel faster than particles, the completed e-CALLISTO can also work as an early - warning system for radio bursts, alerting space mission control centres to upcoming disturbances caused by coronal mass ejections from the Sun.

The Dutch and Breakthrough Listen teams suggest that the fast radio bursts may come from a highly magnetized rotating neutron star — a magnetar — in the vicinity of a massive black hole that is still growing as gas and dust fall into it.

The nearly 100 percent polarization of the radio bursts is unusual, and has only been seen in radio emissions from the extreme magnetic environments around massive black holes, such as those at the centers of galaxies.

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.

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

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts: a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

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.

LIGO was the first to detect the signals as gravitational waves, before 70 observatories around the world joined in to watch the fireworks in the form of visible light, radio waves, X-rays and a gamma ray burst.

They also plan to keep monitoring the steady radio emission from the vicinity of the Spitler burst to see if its properties change in time, as expected based on that theory.

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.

As the progenitors of the bursts are still unknown, all efforts to search for similar types of bursts, in radio or other wavelengths, has been an area of increasing interest.

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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.

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