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fast radio burst

noun

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  1. A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the…

    A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.

    • This would confirm a cosmological origin of the fast radio burst, although this was disputed because the afterglow could also be caused by conventional AGN activity.

  2. An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.

  3. An object from which the phenomenon occurs.

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