China’s giant telescope detects a new fast radio burst

Beijing, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Astronomers have discovered a new Rapid Radio Burst (FRB), mysterious signals believed to be coming from the distant universe, with the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in China.

An international team led by scientists from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) made the discovery by analyzing data from the five hundred meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST), Xinhua reported Friday.

FRBs are the brightest known explosions in the universe. They are called “fast” because these blips are very short, only several milliseconds long. But there is still no reasonable explanation for its origin.

Using his own novel search method incorporating deep-learning artificial intelligence, NAOC astronomer Zhu Weiwei found the new explosion, coded FRB 181123, from FAST’s massive survey data.

The discovery will be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Analysis shows that this explosion may come from the remote universe. And this new discovery demonstrates the unique advantages of FAST in searching for remote FRBs through blind search, said Li Di, the chief scientist at FAST and one of the co-authors.

The telescope is expected to discover more FRBs and make deep follow-up observations, which could help shed light on the origin and physical mechanisms of FRBs, Li said.

Located in a naturally deep and round karst depression in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, FAST was completed in September 2016 and began regular operations earlier this year.

Source: IANS

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