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起源于河外的明亮毫秒射电爆发

A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin

D. R. Lorimer, M. Bailes, M. A. McLaughlin, D. J. Narkevic, F. Crawford

摘要:

脉冲星巡天提供了为数不多的机会之一,监测甚至一小部分(~0.00001)的无线电天空的脉冲爆发般的事件与毫秒的持续时间。在对观测资料的分析中,我们发现了一个距离小麦哲伦云3度的30光年、持续时间<5毫秒的分散爆发。爆发的性质反对与我们的银河系或小麦哲伦云的物理联系。目前宇宙中自由电子含量的模型意味着爆发的距离小于1 Gpc在90小时的额外观测中没有看到进一步的爆发,这意味着它是一个单一的事件,如超新星或相对论性物体的合并。每天都可能发生数百起类似的事件,这些事件可以作为深入的宇宙学探测器。

英文摘要:

Pulsar surveys offer one of the few opportunities to monitor even a small fraction (~0.00001) of the radio sky for impulsive burst-like events with millisecond durations. In analysis of archival survey data, we have discovered a 30-Jy dispersed burst of duration <5 ms located three degrees from the Small Magellanic Cloud. The burst properties argue against a physical association with our Galaxy or the Small Magellanic Cloud. Current models for the free electron content in the Universe imply a distance to the burst of <1 Gpc No further bursts are seen in 90-hr of additional observations, implying that it was a singular event such as a supernova or coalescence of relativistic objects. Hundreds of similar events could occur every day and act as insightful cosmological probes.

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