The magnetic field and turbulence of the cosmic web measured using a brilliant fast radio burst.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration events thought to originate beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Uncertainty surrounding the burst sources, and their propagation through intervening plasma, has limited their use as cosmological probes. We report on a mildly dispersed (dispersion measure 26...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22740 |