Mystery radio bursts spew gamma rays too

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3100, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Derek Fox at Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues studied old data from the Burst Alert Telescope on NASA's Swift spacecraft to see if any gamma-ray bursts coincided with fast radio bursts (FRBs). They found one example from 2013. That challenges lower-energy explanations for FRBs and points to their source being a more catastrophic event such as a supernova or neutron star merger. But it also increases the mystery in some ways, Fox says.