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Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs.

Classified as: mcgill research, Vicky Kaspi, Department of physics, Trottier Space Institute, Fast Radio Bursts, space
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Published on: 11 Jan 2024

Astronomers from ۲ݮƵ University are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky that come from far beyond the Milky Way. This discovery brings the total number of confirmed FRB sources to 50.

Classified as: Fast Radio Bursts, Vicky Kaspi, Trottier Space Institute at ۲ݮƵ University
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Published on: 26 Apr 2023

Astronomers at ۲ݮƵ University, MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy, that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. Classified as a fast radio burst, or FRB, this new signal persists for up to three seconds, about 1,000 times longer than the average FRB. Within this window, the team detected bursts of radio waves that repeat every 0.2 seconds in a clear periodic pattern.

Classified as: ۲ݮƵ Space Institute, FRB, Vicky Kaspi
Published on: 13 Jul 2022

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment fast radio burst (CHIME/FRB) team, which discovered more than 500 new fast radio bursts in the first year of the detector’s operations, will receive the 2022 .

Classified as: American Astronomical Society, astrophysics, Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope, Vicky Kaspi
Published on: 17 Nov 2021

By Chris Chipello, ۲ݮƵ Newsroom

۲ݮƵ researchers Elena Bennett and Yasser Gidi also honoured by NSERC

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has named ۲ݮƵ University astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi as this year’s recipient of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, NSERC’s highest honour, in recognition of the excellence and influence of her research contributions.

Classified as: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, astrophysics, elena bennett, neutron stars, pulsars, Vicky Kaspi, society and culture, Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, Fast Radio Bursts, Yasser Gidi
Published on: 16 Feb 2016
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