{"id":7952,"date":"2016-11-19T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T16:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7952"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:13:17","slug":"enigmatic-fast-radio-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/19\/enigmatic-fast-radio-bursts\/","title":{"rendered":"Enigmatic Fast Radio Bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231005-800-mystery-cosmic-radio-blasts-come-with-side-of-gamma-rays\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from New Scientist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Mystery cosmic radio blasts come with side of gamma rays<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Leah Crane<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/16180000\/84993main_swiftprint6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's impression of a telescope pointing at a bright light\" width=\"480\" \/><em>NASA<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BLASTS of radio waves from space may deliver a much bigger wallop than expected. For the first time, we have seen one of these enigmatic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22630153-600-is-this-et-mystery-of-strange-radio-bursts-from-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">fast radio bursts<\/a>\u00a0occurring together with a spurt of gamma rays, meaning their joint source may be a billion times more energetic than we thought.<\/p>\n<p>FRBs have proved baffling since their discovery in 2007. Each torrent of radio waves lasts no more than a few milliseconds and we have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2079411-repeating-cosmic-radio-blast-adds-mystery-to-their-origins\/\" target=\"_blank\">only spotted 17 of them so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finding accompanying signals at other wavelengths may be the key to decoding their source. But to observe such a paired event, we would have to be watching the same area of the sky with a radio telescope and a telescope operating at different wavelengths when an FRB occurs there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been really unlucky so far: we\u2019re almost always looking in the wrong places to be helpful,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebpetroff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Petroff<\/a>\u00a0at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231005-800-mystery-cosmic-radio-blasts-come-with-side-of-gamma-rays\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at New Scientist<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from New Scientist Mystery cosmic radio blasts come with side of gamma rays By\u00a0Leah Crane NASA BLASTS of radio waves from space may deliver a much bigger wallop than expected. For the first time, we have seen one of these enigmatic\u00a0fast radio bursts\u00a0occurring together with a spurt of gamma rays, meaning their joint source may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}