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astronomy2 years ago

Magnetic Fields Hold Clues to Fast Radio Bursts from Space

A new study published in Science highlights a rare repeating fast radio burst (FRB 20190520B) that produces radio bursts a few times an hour, occasionally at different radio frequencies. Using the five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in China, astronomers were able to identify and study this phenomenon, which has never stopped repeating. FRBs are powerful, millisecond-long radio bursts from space that produce as much energy during their brief existence as the Sun produces over a few days.

Twisted magnetic fields around fast radio burst may hold alien communication.
astronomy2 years ago

Twisted magnetic fields around fast radio burst may hold alien communication.

An international team of researchers has discovered an extreme field reversal around the persistently active repeating fast radio burst (FRB) known as FRB 20190520B. The study, based on observational efforts across three continents, was published in Science on May 11. The reversal could result from propagation through a turbulent, magnetized screen of plasma located between 10-5 to 100 parsecs of the FRB source. Understanding drastic changes in the magnetized environment around the FRB is an important step toward understanding the origin of such cosmic explosions.