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A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, B. C. Andersen, K. M. Bandura et al., 2020. Nature 587(7832), 54–58.

CHIME detection of a two-component radio burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 on 28 April 2020, with an energy of about 3 × 10³⁴ erg in the 400–800 MHz band, three orders of magnitude above any earlier magnetar radio burst. A burst like it from a nearby galaxy would look like an FRB.

MYS0CVCM6RE3JKJ · mystery · click to copyMFast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off burstsArticleCopy of CHIME and STARE2 recordings of FRB 200428 from the magnetar SGR 1935+2154doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2863-yChecked against the original0

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The proof that magnetars make FRB-like bursts.

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CHIME/FRB Collaboration, Andersen, B. C., Bandura, K. M., Bhardwaj, M., & et al. (2020). A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar. Nature 587(7832), 54–58. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2863-y
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