A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from McGill University, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from a nearby galaxy pulses at regular intervals.

Researchers within the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Fast Radio Burst Collaboration used the CHIME telescope in British Columbia to show that the repeating radio source known as FRB 180916.J0158+65 – first discovered in 2018 by the same group - pulsates apparently every 16.35 days.

Classified as: fast radio burst, repeating fast radio burst, CHIME, Ziggy Pleunis, Pragya Chawla, McGill Space Institute, Victoria Kaspi
Published on: 17 Jun 2020

New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source’s environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.

The findings by an international team of astronomers, including Victoria Kaspi and Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University, appear in the January 11 edition of Nature and are highlighted on the cover of the journal.

Classified as: fast radio burst, astrophysical, magnetized, FRB 121102, Kaspi, Tendulkar, Arecibo, Green Bank, CHIME, telescope
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Published on: 10 Jan 2018

Brief pulse detected by Arecibo telescope appears to come from far beyond our galaxy

Classified as: astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, Kaspi, Arecibo, Cordes, fast radio burst, Max Planck Institute, Parkes Observatory, Spitler
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Published on: 10 Jul 2014
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