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fast radio burst en · NOUN
Meanings
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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.
2016, Günter Sigl, Astroparticle Physics, Springer, →ISBN, page 571:
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(broadly) An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
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(broadly) An object from which the phenomenon occurs.
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Deriveds
fast radio burster · FRB