Swinburne: Mysterious Bursts of Energy Do Come from Outer Space

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Swinburne: Mysterious Bursts of Energy Do Come from Outer Space

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Mysterious Bursts of Energy Do Come from Outer Space
Swinburne University of Technology | 2017 Apr 03
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far beyond the Milky Way, appearing in the constellations Puppis and Hydra.
Credit: James Josephides/Mike Dalley
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Fast Radio Bursts present one of modern astronomy’s greatest mysteries: what or who in the Universe is transmitting short bursts of radio energy across the cosmos?

Manisha Caleb, a PhD candidate at Australian National University, Swinburne University of Technology and the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), has confirmed that the mystery bursts of radio waves that astronomers have hunted for ten years really do come from outer space.

Ms Caleb worked with Swinburne and University of Sydney colleagues to detect three of these Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with the Molonglo radio telescope 40 km from Canberra.

Discovered almost 10 years ago at CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration intense pulses of radio light that appear to be coming from vast distances. They are about a billion times more luminous than anything we have ever seen in our own Milky Way galaxy. ...

The First Interferometric Detections of Fast Radio Bursts - M. Caleb et al
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