Astronomers have uncovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts using data from the CHIME radio telescope. The number of confirmed sources has doubled.
An international team of astronomers have discovered– explosions in the sky from far beyond the Milky Way – doubling the total number of confirmed sources.
A study published in The Astrophysical Journal this week helped shed some light on the mysterious phenomena. The researchers, including authors at McGill University in Quebec, gathered data, including from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment radio telescope. To find the new sources of FRBs, they used a new set of statistical tools developed to go over the data CHIME gathered between Sept. 30, 2019, and May 1, 2021. "We combed through the data to find every repeating source detected so far, including the less obvious ones," Ziggy Pleunis, the first author of the paper who started working on the research as, said in a statement shared by the university.
Adaeze Ibik, a PhD student in the David A. Dunlap Department for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, said that the scientists had already identified likely associated galaxies for two of the FRBs.
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