Fast radio bursts (FRB) are very strong and extremely short light emission from unknown sources. We have known about them for less than two decades and many questions remain about them. Scientists have recently discovered the nearest galaxy, M81, coming from a different galaxy just 11.7 million light-years from us. Observations published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters describe FRB20200120E as a recurring FRB, meaning that several pulses have discovered in the direction of M81. Now a new analysis goes further – it is not just the nearest extrinsic FRBE (we recently had one in our galaxy) it is also coming from a strange place: a globular cluster. Globular clusters visually tied to collections of stars that orbit their halo galaxy, the spherical region surrounding the main disk.
FRBs believed to be young, ultimate magnetic neutrons known as star magnets, and since they formed by older stars instead of globular clusters, researchers discovered it and became obsolete. “We’ve exploded a fast radio in a global cluster! This is probably not the place for radio to explode, “said Dr. Brian Gaensler, co-author of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, in a tweet about the discovery.” What is going on?” The paper relating to the details of the discovery is available on RXB and has been submit for publication. There are several proposed scenarios in this group to find potential sources of FRB in a global cluster.
Instead of the magnet formed in the original-collapse supernova (when a star exhausts its fuel and falls on its own), the team advises the FRBT on alternative situations of possible magnetic formation. It could have come from a white dwarf that stole goods from a partner and became a magnet. Alternatively, perhaps it the combination of two compact stars that created such a magnet. The FRB not fully understood, and while the magnetic explanation seems most likely, visible, perhaps something different could do here.
The alternative hypotheses proposed by the team suggest another type of neutron star – a millisecond pulsar – as a potential culprit. Alternatively, maybe the binary system causes the radio pulses. The most exciting thing is that since the FRB20200120E is 40 times closer than any other known FRBs, it can explore in detail, and its nature – and more insights into FRBs in general – can deduced from it.
Fast radio bursts (FRB) are very strong and extremely short light emission from unknown sources. We have known about them for less than two decades and many questions remain about them. Scientists have recently discovered the nearest galaxy, M81, coming from a different galaxy just 11.7 million light-years from us. Observations published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters describe FRB20200120E as a recurring FRB, meaning that several pulses have discovered in the direction of M81. Now a new analysis goes further – it is not just the nearest extrinsic FRBE (we recently had one in our galaxy) it is also coming from a strange place: a globular cluster. Globular clusters visually tied to collections of stars that orbit their halo galaxy, the spherical region surrounding the main disk.
FRBs believed to be young, ultimate magnetic neutrons known as star magnets, and since they formed by older stars instead of globular clusters, researchers discovered it and became obsolete. “We’ve exploded a fast radio in a global cluster! This is probably not the place for radio to explode, “said Dr. Brian Gaensler, co-author of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, in a tweet about the discovery.” What is going on?” The paper relating to the details of the discovery is available on RXB and has been submit for publication. There are several proposed scenarios in this group to find potential sources of FRB in a global cluster.
Instead of the magnet formed in the original-collapse supernova (when a star exhausts its fuel and falls on its own), the team advises the FRBT on alternative situations of possible magnetic formation. It could have come from a white dwarf that stole goods from a partner and became a magnet. Alternatively, perhaps it the combination of two compact stars that created such a magnet. The FRB not fully understood, and while the magnetic explanation seems most likely, visible, perhaps something different could do here.
The alternative hypotheses proposed by the team suggest another type of neutron star – a millisecond pulsar – as a potential culprit. Alternatively, maybe the binary system causes the radio pulses. The most exciting thing is that since the FRB20200120E is 40 times closer than any other known FRBs, it can explore in detail, and its nature – and more insights into FRBs in general – can deduced from it.
