by Will Golay | May 6, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Over the past decade, several efforts to rapidly image the entire night sky on an approximately nightly basis have resulted in many unexpected discoveries. Several surveys, such as those of PTF, iPTF, ZTF, and ATLAS, have contributed to the ever-expanding and diverse transient zoo. Given this cadence and relatively shallow depth, these surveys have identified several classes of bright and fast transients. One of which remains unexplained is called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient…
by Magnus L'Argent | Feb 20, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
This radio signal has been around longer than Sega Genesis.
by Lynnie Saade | Feb 5, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Do magnetars have flux ropes that look like giant muscular arms? No, but they have some magnetic arches with the muscle to rip light apart!
by Evan Lewis | Aug 21, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
A bright source of radio pulses appeared for 20 minutes, but hasn’t been seen before or since. How could we possibly learn more about it? Read today’s bite to find out!
by Cole Meldorf | May 8, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Neutron stars likely contain a quark soup center, and the authors of today’s paper seek to see if the process of neutrons being crushed into this quark soup could explain the unexplained fast radio burst phenomenon.
by Jessie Thwaites | Nov 12, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s authors search for gravitational waves from extreme sources – magnetar giant flares!
