A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances
Searches for transient astrophysical sources often reveal unexpected classes of objects that are useful physical laboratories. In a recent survey for pulsars and fast transients, we have uncovered four millisecond-duration radio transients all more than 40° from the Galactic plane. The bursts’ prope...
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| author | Thornton, D. Stappers, B. Bailes, M. Barsdell, B. Bates, S. Bhat, Ramesh Burgay, M. Burke-Spolaor, S. Champion, D. Coster, P. D'Amico, N. Jameson, A. Johnston, S. Keith, M. Kramer, M. Levin, L. Milia, S. Ng, C. Possenti, A. van Straten, W. |
| author_facet | Thornton, D. Stappers, B. Bailes, M. Barsdell, B. Bates, S. Bhat, Ramesh Burgay, M. Burke-Spolaor, S. Champion, D. Coster, P. D'Amico, N. Jameson, A. Johnston, S. Keith, M. Kramer, M. Levin, L. Milia, S. Ng, C. Possenti, A. van Straten, W. |
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| description | Searches for transient astrophysical sources often reveal unexpected classes of objects that are useful physical laboratories. In a recent survey for pulsars and fast transients, we have uncovered four millisecond-duration radio transients all more than 40° from the Galactic plane. The bursts’ properties indicate that they are of celestial rather than terrestrial origin. Host galaxy and intergalactic medium models suggest that they have cosmological redshifts of 0.5 to 1 and distances of up to 3 gigaparsecs. No temporally coincident x- or gamma-ray signature was identified in association with the bursts. Characterization of the source population and identification of host galaxies offers an opportunity to determine the baryonic content of the universe. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-116072018-03-29T09:05:57Z A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances Thornton, D. Stappers, B. Bailes, M. Barsdell, B. Bates, S. Bhat, Ramesh Burgay, M. Burke-Spolaor, S. Champion, D. Coster, P. D'Amico, N. Jameson, A. Johnston, S. Keith, M. Kramer, M. Levin, L. Milia, S. Ng, C. Possenti, A. van Straten, W. Searches for transient astrophysical sources often reveal unexpected classes of objects that are useful physical laboratories. In a recent survey for pulsars and fast transients, we have uncovered four millisecond-duration radio transients all more than 40° from the Galactic plane. The bursts’ properties indicate that they are of celestial rather than terrestrial origin. Host galaxy and intergalactic medium models suggest that they have cosmological redshifts of 0.5 to 1 and distances of up to 3 gigaparsecs. No temporally coincident x- or gamma-ray signature was identified in association with the bursts. Characterization of the source population and identification of host galaxies offers an opportunity to determine the baryonic content of the universe. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11607 10.1126/science.1236789 The American Association for the Advancement of Science restricted |
| spellingShingle | Thornton, D. Stappers, B. Bailes, M. Barsdell, B. Bates, S. Bhat, Ramesh Burgay, M. Burke-Spolaor, S. Champion, D. Coster, P. D'Amico, N. Jameson, A. Johnston, S. Keith, M. Kramer, M. Levin, L. Milia, S. Ng, C. Possenti, A. van Straten, W. A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances |
| title | A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances |
| title_full | A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances |
| title_fullStr | A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances |
| title_short | A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances |
| title_sort | population of fast radio bursts at cosmological distances |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11607 |