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  Mysterious Radio Burst Repeats Itself Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 16:31 -0600
    Re: Mysterious Radio Burst Repeats Itself jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-03-04 22:51 +0000

#559378 — Mysterious Radio Burst Repeats Itself

Mysterious Radio Burst Repeats Itself
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/mysterious-radio-burst-repeats-itself-03022016/


> The fact that this FRB repeats assures Bailes that these odd
> signatures are in fact astrophysical. And to boot, it provides
> tantalizing hints about what might spark the explosion of radio
> waves. “It tells you without a doubt that this is not a cataclysmic
> event like a core-collapse supernova or a neutron star-neutron star
> merger because that kind of event destroys the object,” says coauthor
> Jason Hessels (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy). “There's
> nothing left over afterwards that's going to produce another burst.”
>
> Additional clues come from the bursts’ unusual character. For
> example, the bulk of its emission flip flops between higher and lower
> frequencies — behavior similar to that produced by the highly
> magnetized pulsar rapidly spinning at the heart of the Crab Nebula.
> So lead author Laura Spitler (Max Planck Institute for Radio
> Astronomy) speculates that this FRB might point to a more energetic
> class of pulsars visible beyond the Milky Way. Future observations
> could verify this idea if astronomers could pin down a regular period
> for these bursts.



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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mysterious Radio Burst Repeats Itself

Gorgznak Jr. is still working on his sub-under-space radio set for the
the Penplanetary Middle School Science Fair.

Problems with the quantum Q-modulator still challenge him.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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