Research report 2016 - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Radio bursts from deep space
Authors
Spitler, Laura
Departments
„Radioastronomische Fundamentalphysik“
Summary
For the last 10 years radio astronomers have been detecting short-duration, strong bursts of radio waves from unknown astronomical sources outside our own Galaxy. The discovery of these fast radio bursts (FRBs) sparked a lot of interest, because the estimated distances to the FRBs is 100s of millions to billions of light years. It is an astrophysical puzzle how radio bursts of such intensity can be produced.