fast radio burst
English
Noun
fast radio burst (plural fast radio bursts)
- (astronomy) A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.
- 2016, Günter Sigl, Astroparticle Physics, Springer, →ISBN, page 571:
- 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.
- (by extension) An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
- (by extension) An object from which the phenomenon occurs.
- Hyponym: blitzar
Coordinate terms
- GRB (“gamma ray burst”)
Derived terms
- FRB (abbreviation)
- fast radio burster
Further reading
- fast radio burst on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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