Origin of fast radio bursts came into focus through polarized light

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Origin of fast radio bursts came into focus through polarized light

An international team of astronomers suspects based on their findings that non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) probably originate from galaxies similar to our Milky Way. The team compared the polarised light from 128 of these non-repeating FRBs with repeating ones. The researchers published their results in The Astrophysical Journal with the title Polarization Properties of 128 Nonrepeating Fast Radio Bursts from the First CHIME/FRB Baseband Catalog (DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad40aa). Read more here.

Image: © CHIME/Dunlap Institute; Artist impression of the polarized light of a pulsar which lands on the CHIME telescope

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