No Home for A Fast Radio Burst… Yet
Mysteriously brief and extremely energetic radio signals are beamed at us thousands of times a day. We thought we finally figured out where one came from… or did we?
A Repeating FRB
Mysterious, brief bursts of radio have been detected many times from what looks to be the same source for the first time.
The Cosmic Microwave Oven Background
Over the past couple of decades the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia has been picking up two types of mysterious signals, each lasting just a few milliseconds. One kind, the Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), have come from seemingly random points in the sky at unpredictable times, and are thought to have a (thus far unknown) astronomical origin. The other signal, known as perytons, have been found by this paper to have an origin much close to home.
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Dark matter, neutron stars, black holes, and an extremely exotic explanation for Fast Radio Bursts.
Arecibo Detects a Fast Radio Burst
A mysterious Fast Radio Burst (FRB) from beyond the galaxy has been detected at Arecibo. This is the first FRB discovered outside of Parkes Observatory, giving greater credence to the astronomical nature of these signals.
A Fast Radio Burst From Close to Home?
Astronomers are hearing a new type of radio transient, but no one knows where they come from and how they are created. This paper suggests one of the six documented Fast Radio Bursts detected so far originated close to home, within our own galaxy.