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Fast Radio Bursts (FRB)

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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015...signal-from-space-caught-live-for-first-time/

Mysterious radio signal from space caught live for first time

By Walt Bonner
Published January 26, 2015
FoxNews.com

Astronomers in Australia have picked up an “alien” radio signal from space for the first time as it occurred. The signal, or radio “burst”, was discovered on May 15, 2014, though it’s just being reported by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “The burst was identified within 10 seconds of its occurrence,” said Emily Petroff, a doctoral student from Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology. “The importance of the discovery was recognized very quickly and we were all working very excitedly to contact other astronomers and telescopes around the world to look at the location of the burst.”

Emerging from an unknown source, these bursts are bright flashes of radio waves that emit as much energy in a few milliseconds as the sun does in 24 hours. “The first fast radio burst was discovered in 2007,” Petroff tells FoxNews.com, “and up until our discovery there were 8 more found in old or archival data.” While researchers use telescopes in Hawaii, India, Germany, Chile, California, and the California Islands to search for bursts, it is the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Eastern Australia that is the first to catch one as its happening.

The cause of these mysterious signals remains unknown, with possible theories ranging from black holes to alien communication. However, UFO hunters shouldn’t get too excited. According to Petroff, “We're confident that they're coming from natural sources, that is to say it's probably not aliens, but we haven't solved the case completely. The two most promising theories at the moment are that these bursts could be produced either by a star producing a highly energetic flare, or from a neutron star collapsing to make a black hole. Both of these things would be from sources in far-away galaxies just reaching us from billions of light years away.”
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There's a bit more information in this article, http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=1956214567196815970
 
THAT much energy expended in such a short time wouldn't be alien communication.
So...some other cause then.
 
Perhaps the Rebel Alliance managed to blow-up the Death Star....worrying that the scientists are now re-analysing previous data, in the light of this. Is that the inference - that previous "WOW" signals didn't look sufficiently wow-like? Curious...
 
A new interesting finding:
http://www.newscientist.com/article...stery-of-strange-radio-bursts-from-space.html

Cosmic objects might, by some natural but unknown process, produce dispersions in regular steps. Small, dense remnant stars called pulsars are known to emit bursts of radio waves, though not in regular arrangements or with as much power as FRBs. But maybe superdense stars are mathematical oddities because of underlying physics we don't understand.

It's also possible that the telescopes are picking up evidence of human technology, like an unmapped spy satellite, masquerading as signals from deep space.

The most tantalising possibility is that the source of the bursts might be a who, not a what. If none of the natural explanations pan out, their paper concludes, "An artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered."
 
Fast radio bursts are one of the more convincing explanations for the Fermi Paradox, in my opinion. By sending data-rich but relatively cheap messages to each other, various advanced alien civilisations can avoid the extreme expense associated with interstellar travel. It should even be possible to send entire sentient mind-states via radio-bursts, allowing aliens to journey to visit each other without messing with the inconvenient rocket equation. Yes, it is A for Andromeda writ large, although most people call this concept the Interstellar Internet these days.

If the Interstellar Internet actually exists we might expect to see structured bursts of this kind, and of course the ultimate goal of SETI is to join the network ourselves. This strategy is not entirely risk-free, of course.
 
Fast radio bursts: Scientists hear ‘huge’, mysterious and repeating signal from deep in space
Astronomers aren’t sure what is causing the mysterious sounds, only 17 of which have ever been heard
Andrew Griffin

Scientists have heard a long, repeated sound from deep in space — and nobody is sure where it is coming from.
Astronomers found 10 millisecond-long “fast radio bursts”, the latest example of a mysterious radio wave coming from outside of our galaxy.

Scientists had previously thought that the bursts were singular events. But a new study finds that at least some of the sources send out repeated messages.

The finding adds to other strange discoveries about the fast radio bursts that seem to indicate that there may be something unusual causing them. Scientists said last year that some of the messages appear to be coming in a pattern — one that could even be created by alien technology.

The new research sheds little new light on what exactly is causing the messages. But it does offer perplexing questions about what sort of source could be emitting them.
“"We're showing that whatever battery drives FRBs, it can recharge in minutes," said James Cordes, an astronomy professor at Cornell University, in a statement.

"The energy of the event becomes very problematic. We're detecting these FRBs from very far away, which means that they are intrinsically very bright. Only a few astrophysical sources can produce bursts like this, and we think they are most likely neutron stars in other galaxies."

Previously, scientists had thought that message was coming from something like the collision of neutron stars, sending a shockwave of energy across the universe. But the new findings show that the source of the energy isn’t being destroyed, since they send out more than one burst.

"In our paper, we're showing that our FRB can't have an explosive origin,” said Shami Chatterjee, a senior researcher at Cornell, in a statement. “So, either there's an odd coincidence, or maybe there are different types of FRBs.

“Either way, it seems we've broken this enigmatic phenomenon wide open."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...rious-signal-from-deep-in-space-a6909211.html
 
Mystery cosmic radio bursts pinpointed
By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website
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Image captionArtwork: The radio burst studied by the astronomers is the first known example that "repeats"
They're one of the most persistent puzzles in modern astronomy.

As the name suggests, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-lived - but powerful - pulses of radio waves from the cosmos.

Their brevity, combined with the fact that it's difficult to pinpoint their location, have ensured their origins remain enigmatic.

Outlining their work at a major conference, astronomers say they have now traced the source of one of these bursts to a different galaxy.

It's an important step to finally solving the mystery, which has spawned a variety of different possible explanations, from black holes to extra-terrestrial intelligence.

The first FRB was discovered in 2007, in archived data from the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia. Astronomers were searching for new examples of magnetised neutron stars called pulsars, but found a new phenomenon - a radio burst from 2001. Since then, 18 FRBs - also referred to as "flashes" or "sizzles" - have been found in total.

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Image captionThe VLA in New Mexico allowed for high resolution imaging of the radio burst
"I don't exaggerate when I say there are more theories for what these could be than there are observed bursts," first author of the new study, Shami Chatterjee, told the BBC's Science in Action programme.

All FRBs were found using single-dish radio telescopes that are unable to narrow down the sources' locations with enough precision to further characterise the flashes.

But Dr Chatterjee, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and colleagues used a multi-antenna radio telescope called the Karl G Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, which had sufficient resolution to precisely determine the location of a flash known as FRB 121102.

Unlike all the others, this FRB - discovered in 2012 - has recurred several times.

"When we reported last year that one of these objects was repeating, that - in one go - knocked out about half of those models, because for this one source, at least, we knew it couldn't be explosive. It had to be something where the engine that produced this survived for the next flash."

In 83 hours of observing time over six months in 2016, the VLA detected nine bursts from FRB 121102.

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Image captionThe source of the radio bursts lies more than three billion light-years away
"We now know that this particular burst comes from a dwarf galaxy more than three billion light-years from Earth," said Dr Chatterjee. That's a staggering distance from Earth, underlining just how energetic these flashes are.

"That simple fact is a huge advance in our understanding of these events."

The team has published their findings in Nature journal and has outlined them at the 229th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Grapevine, Texas.

Since this is the only known repeating burst, it's possible it could represent a completely different phenomenon to other FRBs.

In addition to detecting the bright bursts from FRB 121102, the team's observations also revealed an ongoing, persistent source of weaker radio emission in the same region.

The flashes and the persistent source must be within 100 light-years of each other, and scientists think they are likely to be either the same object or physically associated with one another.

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Image captionA magnetar - one possible explanation - is a type of neutron star with a particularly powerful magnetic field
"This persistent radio source could be an active galactic nucleus (AGN) at the centre of a galaxy that's feeding (consuming matter from its surroundings), sending out jets, and these sizzles we see are little bits of plasma being vaporised in the jets," said Dr Chatterjee.

"That's not the interpretation we favour. The one we favour is that maybe it's a baby magnetar - a neutron star with a massive magnetic field - and it's got a nebula surrounding it that's powered by the energy being lost by this object. Every once in a while, we're getting a flash from this baby magnetar."

Prof Heino Falcke, who had investigated FRBs, but was not involved in the latest study said that, even without a clear answer, the new findings were a "game changer". But he admitted several features associated with FRB 121102 remained mystifying.

He agreed that some features of the radio source resembled those associated with large black holes. But he said these were typically found only in large galaxies.

He told BBC News: "Why is this spectacular FRB in such a little, very innocent looking galaxy? There are many things coming together which don't make much sense yet.

"Maybe it's a neutron star orbiting a black hole," he said. This might explain the on-off nature of the bursts. But he added: "Why would that produce an FRB where others don't?"

Further research will be needed to clarify the nature of the flashes, and to determine whether all FRBs are caused by the same phenomenon - or have different causes.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38502607
 
I like that one, it's a really vexing mystery, a bit like Tabby's star.

It's the fact that we can see 13bn light years back and yet we've only found one of both of those in the whole universe.
 
This is interesting, wonder why we're finding them in the distant/earlier universe but not in our own or neighbouring galaxys?

One of the most perplexing phenomena in astronomy has come of age. The fleeting blasts of energetic cosmic radiation of unknown cause, now known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), were first detected a decade ago. At the time, many astronomers dismissed the seemingly random blasts as little more than glitches. And although key facts, such as what causes them, are still largely a mystery, FRBs are now accepted as a genuine class of celestial signal and have spawned a field of their own.

The passage was marked this month by the first major meeting on FRBs, held in Aspen, Colorado, on February 12–17. As well as celebrating a fleet of searches for the signals, the meeting’s 80 delegates grappled with how best to design those hunts and pin down the signals’ origins and precise distances. The trajectory mirrors that of astronomers 20 years ago when they were getting to grips with γ-ray bursts, which are now a staple of astronomical observation, says Bing Zhang, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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ScientificAmerican
 
I wish I knew more about this kind of thing, but even the popular articles tend to lose me--a layman--in jargon before long.

We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space
By Leah Crane

One of the most mysterious objects in space just got even weirder. A group of researchers just found 15 new fast radio bursts, all from the only one of these objects that we’ve ever seen repeat.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are some of the universe’s strangest phenomena: powerful radio signals that flash from distant space for milliseconds and then disappear. They have been attributed to everything from black holes to extraterrestrial intelligence.

Because they’re so brief, and because radio telescopes can only watch a small area of the sky at a time, only about 2 dozen FRBs have ever been detected. Of those, only one has been observed to repeat: FRB 121102, which resides in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years away from Earth.

Now, researchers with the Breakthrough Listen initiative, a $100 billion search for signs of intelligent life in the universe, have detected 15 more pulses from FRB 121102.

Short Article Concludes:
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ew-mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts-from-space/
Similar Report Here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...age-signal-alien-hunters-galaxy-a7921671.html
 
These aren't attempts at communication - who would expect to get an answer back grom a galaxy three billion light years away? But they might be the unintended consequence of very advanced technology. A distant civilisation three billion years ago might have found out how to crack the cosmogenesis problem, and created a new universe to live in. This is incidental radiation from the creation of a baby universe.

This idea was suggested by Lee Smolin in his 'Fecund Universes' theory - new universes can be born out of old ones, leading to a process of natural selection for universes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smolin#Cosmological_natural_selection
By tweaking the initial starting conditions, a sufficiently advanced civilisation might be able to create a universe that is more suitable for life than our own - and then go off and live in it.

One of the more unusual answers to the Fermi Paradox - sufficiently advanced civilisations create their own universes and don't bother with our, less-than-perfect, example.
 
A press release put out by the Breakthrough Listen organization, which funded and organized the project says; “Possible explanations for FRBs range from outbursts from rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields, to more speculative ideas that they are directed energy sources used by extraterrestrial civilizations to power spacecraft.”

http://www.popsci.com/strange-signals-distant-galaxy
 
... Cue the revised data regarding the quantity of repeat FRBs from one unique constellation sector....."Well, we said 15...but...."

I have what I fear may be a valid technical question. Since this global array of radiotelescopes must somehow emulate NASA's DSN geotopical equipositioned acquisition sites (but, by definition, not in every sense of that requirement) how certain are the FRB project leads that this dataset outlier is not a aggregation artefact? ...
 
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New radio telescope picks up mysterious signal from space

A new radio telescope in Canada is doing its job picking up mysterious signals from deep space known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs).

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The CHIME radio telescope

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Columbia detected the first-ever FRB at frequencies below 700 MHz on July 25, a signal named FRB 180725A.

As you might guess, FRBs are milliseconds-long bursts of radio emissions that come from some unknown source across the universe. They're one of the newer cosmic mysteries around, having been first detected only about a decade ago. Possible explanations include bursts from magnetars, exploding black holes, and yes, highly advanced alien civilizations.

The announcement also notes that additional FRBs have been found in the past week at frequencies as low as 400 MHz and early indications suggest they aren't coming from known sources on Earth.

So far only one FRB has been observed repeating and researchers say whatever is sending that signal across the universe is stupendously powerful.

It's early days for both the study of FRBs and this FRB in particular. CHIME and other observatories will be keeping an ear to the sky for more clues to help solve the mystery.

https://www.cnet.com/news/new-radio-telescope-picks-up-mysterious-signal-from-space/

Wikipedia page on FRBs.

maximus otter
 
Only the second repeater ever:

Astronomers Just Detected a Mysterious Repeating Cosmic Radio Burst—Again

Canadian scientists have detected 13 new fast radio bursts, those mysterious, split-second, high-energy pulses that reach us from unknown origins billions of light-years away. Intriguingly, one of these newly documented bursts is a repeater, becoming just the second-known repeating fast radio burst among the 60 documented so far.
First detected in 2002, fast radio bursts (FRBs) continue to mystify astronomers, who have struggled to understand the sources of these powerful emissions. FRBs last for just a few milliseconds, and their unpredictable displays make observations notoriously difficult. Incredibly, these radio waves originate from distant galaxies, traveling at high energies through the cosmos for literally billions of years. Popular explanations for FRBs include rapidly spinning neutron stars with strong magnetic fields (known as magnetars), mergers of highly dense objects, collapsed stars, supermassive black holes, and—much more speculatively—extraterrestrial civilizations.
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https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-just-detected-a-mysterious-repeating-cosmic-1831605803?IR=T
 
Very interesting theory proposed in this video that the radio bursts may be normal behaviour for pulsars, with the 'repeaters' being very young active pulsars and the 'single bursts' actually just being hugely spaced out repetitions.

 
I am new here and really puzzled how interesting subjects are killed off so fast. First the Waldorf and Statler crew declare it 'rubbish' from their balcony seats. Then the Chuckle Brothers come on stage to make light of it all. Is it out of social embarrassment at the unknown, a deliberate intention to subvert debate or what?

Further, when people post very interesting material it's either ignored or if discussion does arise, they are then treated as if they are on the witness stand. All very puzzling!


Deep space signals recently detected. Can I officially declare now:

a. It's all rubbish
b. It's all done in Photoshop
c. It's a Chinese lantern
d. It's God's crisps (again)
e. It's interesting (let's call this Charles Fort's 'Road Less Travelled')
 
(Posts regarding recent FRB news are now consolidated into an independent FRB thread to set the stage for addressing the question posed by Fahrenheit 451.)

Fahrenheit 451:

You omitted the crucial option 'f.', which applies to both this recent FRB story and the unrelated story concerning 'eerie radio sounds detected in Antarctica' in apparent response to which you originally posted over in the Astronomical News thread:

f. It's a known phenomenon currently being studied as a presumably natural astronomical event of unknown origin.

Diverse radio frequency phenomena in or from outer space have been detected for as long as we've been playing with radio reception.

If he were alive and oriented to our current context, I seriously doubt Fort would have paid much attention to either of these stories today. This is because they don't exhibit the sort of 'strangeness' (e.g., in terms of being outside the scope of scientific knowledge or explanation) typical of the items he collected and compiled.

In contrast ... If either of these recent radio frequency phenomena exhibited obviously anomalous characteristics (e.g., a series reflecting enumeration of prime numbers and hence suggestive of a deliberate 'message') it would definitely pique his interest.

In other words ... A reasonable list of options does not and can not end with your item 'e.'

This lays the groundwork for addressing your query about apparently skeptical bias ...

(NOTE: The following simply uses your query as an illustrative example, and this isn't intended to represent any 'put-down' specifically directed at you.)

The omission noted above leaves you open to accusations of 'spin' / 'spin doctoring', insofar as you've seemingly framed things in a certain way so as to channel further discussion along a particular path. One of the primary reasons new topics die out is that they simply dissipate once their initial 'spin' is nullified or eliminated.

IMHO the biggest hindrance to Fortean studies nowadays isn't a lack of strangeness - it's an increasing level of 'noise' produced by hordes of bloggers, YouTube presenters, etc., who are seeking advantage or even profit from churning out as much online content suggestive of strangeness as they can. It doesn't necessarily matter whether the content makes sense or makes a point, so long as it increases their inventory and exposure.

The particular video you linked in your post illustrates such spin doctoring once you compare it to the sources cited in this thread's first two posts. The video's content consists of a straightforward science story embellished with:

- an exotic electronic music soundtrack to set an exotic mood

- a perhaps inadvertently creepy voice-over that merely relates the most cursory facts in all the other news stories on this subject until the end, where ...

- it states there are diverse opinions on what the FRB's may represent, but strangely concludes by citing one suggestion, and a 'minority' suggestion at that - an alien spaceship.

The reason this story probably won't last long here is because it isn't notably 'Fortean' and many of us see through the thin veneer of creepy frosting added to make it seem so.
 
Are ultra-energetic cosmic rays the same as fast radio bursts?
 
James_H said:
Are ultra-energetic cosmic rays the same as fast radio bursts?
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Apart from the fact that they are at different ends of the frequency spectrum, they do seem to have some aspects in common.
Here are some hypotheses for the origin of FRBs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst#Origin_hypotheses
and here are some for the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-energy_cosmic_ray#Suggested_explanations
as you can see, there is some overlap, but also a lot of differences.

Another curious phenomenon of this sort is the so-called peryton, a brief pulse that may or may not have a mundane terrestrial origin. One clutch of perytons was caused by an on-site microwave oven.
Perytons are named after this mythological half-deer, half eagle creature

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The fast radio burst (FRB) source noted as a repeater in post #1 (FRB 121102) has been recorded multiple times since its first detection in 2012. It's recently been detected by a more recent Chinese radio telescope array.

FRB 121102's distance is estimated at circa 3 billion light years, meaning the FRB's we detect originated before there was much, if any, multicellular life here on earth.

https://www.sciencealert.com/that-giant-radio-telescope-in-china-has-now-detected-a-repeating-frb
 
Astronomers from around the world have long been fascinated by the mysterious radio signals bombarding our planet from deep in outer space, with some onlookers linking them to a possible extraterrestrial intelligence.

A new study by an international team of scientists led by astronomers at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB) in British Columbia has discovered that a mystery radio source in a galaxy some 500 million lightyears from our solar system is sending out fast radio bursts like clockwork in 16.35-day cycles, including 1-2 bursts per hour over a four day period and then 12 days of silence before starting up again.

The discovery is important, because out of the 150+ fast radio bursts recorded by Earth-based observatories over the last decade and a half, only ten of them have repeated, and none as steadily as the source discussed in the study. Furthermore, only a handful of them have been tracked back to the galaxy they came from.​
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The mystery signal, known as FRB 180916.J0158+65 was first discovered in 2017, but has continued repeating steadily, albeit at a rate some 600 times fainter than the first bright flare. In their study, scientists analysed 28 bursts which took place between September 2018 and October 2019, confirming the pattern, and excitedly concluding “that this is the first detected periodicity of any kind in an FRB source.”

https://sputniknews.com/science/202...nals-like-clockwork-scientists-dont-know-why/

maximus otter
 
Those interested in space will be aware that it seems that Betelgeuse may be on the point of going nova. In fact it may have already done so.

The flash and the bright light should be quite noticeable.

And then we will be getting a revival of 'Bright Star in the east', 'Second coming' etc.

See spaceweather.com for details.
 
INT21 said:
Those interested in space will be aware that it seems that Betelgeuse may be on the point of going nova. In fact it may have already done so.

The flash and the bright light should be quite noticeable.

And then we will be getting a revival of 'Bright Star in the east', 'Second coming' etc.

See spaceweather.com for details.
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It'll be Kohoutek all over again. And who remembers Kohoutek?
 

Mysterious, intense blasts of radio energy have been detected coming from within our own galaxy, astronomers have said.

[...]

Now astronomers have been able to track down a fast radio burst in our own Milky Way, for the first ever time. As well as being closer than any FRB ever detected before, they could finally help solve the mystery of where they come from.

Scientists have had trouble tracking down the origin of such blasts because they are so short, unpredictable and originate far away. It is clear that they must be formed in some of the most extreme conditions possible in the universe, with suggested explanations including everything from dying stars to alien technology.

The bursts of radio energy appear to have come from a magnetar, or a star with a very powerful magnetic field, the scientists who discovered the new FRBs said. They were able to confirm that the blast would look like the other, more distant FRBs if it was observed from outside of our own galaxy – suggesting that at least some of the other blasts could be formed by similar objects elsewhere, too.

FULL ARTICLE:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...dio-burst-fast-galaxy-milky-way-b1590956.html
 

Mysterious Repeating Fast Radio Burst Traced to Very Unexpected Location ​


A recently discovered repeating fast radio burst (FRB) named FRB 20200120E is deepening the mystery of these already deeply mysterious space signals.

Astronomers have tracked its location to a galaxy 11.7 million light-years away, which makes it the closest known extragalactic fast radio burst, 40 times closer than the next-closest extragalactic signal.

But it also appears in a globular cluster – a clump of very old stars, not the sort of place at all one might expect to find the type of star spitting out FRBs.

FRBs have been deviling scientists since the first one was discovered back in 2007. They consist of extremely powerful signals from deep space, millions of light-years away, some discharging more energy than 500 million Suns and only detected in radio wavelengths.

Yet these bursts are shockingly brief, shorter than the blink of an eye – mere milliseconds in duration – and most of them don't repeat, making them very hard to predict, trace, and therefore understand.

Then, in 2020, came a massive breakthrough. An FRB was finally detected from inside the Milky Way galaxy, emitted by a magnetar.

Magnetars – of which not many of which have been confirmed to date – are a rare type of neutron star, the collapsed core of a dead star that started out between 8 and 30 times the mass of the Sun. Neutron stars are small and dense, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter, with a maximum mass of about two Suns.

Magnetars, as the name suggests, add something else to the mix: an absolutely insane magnetic field – around a quadrillion times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field, and a thousand times more powerful than that of a normal neutron star.

This brings us back to FRB 20200120E. It's a minority among FRBs – an FRB that repeats its bursts – but aside from that it fits the profile perfectly.

Because it repeats, though, astronomers were more easily able to pinpoint the location on the sky from which it originated. By analyzing other properties of the signal, they were able to determine that it had traveled a relatively short distance.

This led them in 2021 to a grand design spiral galaxy called M81, although with a degree of uncertainty. More specifically, the researchers believed they had tracked FRB 20200120E to a globular cluster.

In a study published in Nature this week, a team of astronomers have confirmed that location.

https://www.sciencealert.com/myster...adio-burst-traced-to-very-unexpected-location

maximus otter
 
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