Posted on 09/24/2022 11:25:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The object, named FRB 20201124A, was detected with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China and described in a new paper led by astronomer Heng Xu of Peking University in China.
So far most evidence points to a magnetar – a neutron star with extraordinarily strong magnetic fields – as a source of FRB emissions like this.
If FRB 20201124A is indeed from one of these wild cosmic beasts, it's looking like an unusual specimen.
Polarization refers to the orientation of light waves in three-dimensional space. By examining how much that orientation has changed since the light departed its source, scientists can understand the environment through which it has passed. Strong polarization suggests a powerful magnetic environment, for example.
Based on the wealth of data delivered by FRB 20201124A, astronomers were able to infer that the source is a magnetar.
But there was something strange. The way the polarization changed over time suggested that the strength of the magnetic field and density of particles around the magnetar were fluctuating.
Because their lives are so brief, these young magnetars are thought to be found in regions where star formation is still occurring. Stars live their short lives and die, creating more clouds of material to give birth to more stars. It's a beautiful cosmic circle of life.
But FRB 20201124A was found in a galaxy a lot like the Milky Way. There's not a lot of star formation going on here at home, so there shouldn't be a baby boom of stars near our unusual new FRB friend either.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
!! I do now, as I looked it up. That would seem to belong to a category of words that you use perhaps once every 20 years, so remembering the meaning is a major challenge to the old brain cells.
In one of his stories, Arthur C. Clarke described first radio contact with extraterrestrial intelligence as reception of groups of pulses in the sequence 1, 4, 9, 16, 25…
This is part of the XeeLee ring building materials process. The XeeLee need to escape this universe by opening a gateway to other ones, because in time the dark matter photino ‘birds’ will convert all suns to red dwarfs through the nova process for nesting and raising their young.
I figured it was something like that.
Yep pretty self evident. Silly astronomers anyway.
Ha! I did the same thing - needed a few extra hours thought Astronomy would be fun and it was one of my hardest classes!
All along they’ve said that they are waiting for a repeating signal. Now that they have them they just tweak the data until it supports the current model. Any researcher who tries to step outside the box gets denied all funding. This is why the long disproved big bang theory lives on. Even the black holes they say theyve photographed are explainable as entirely different electromagnetic phenomena. And they have never found the obe thing needed to hold it together.... Dark matter and energy.
Today’s High Priests of Science bear a strong resemblance to those whom imprisoned Galileo.
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