fast radio burst

noun

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

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Meanings

nounfast radio burst (plural fast radio bursts)

plural fast radio bursts

  1. astronomyA 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
  2. broadlyAn instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
  3. broadlyAn object from which the phenomenon occurs.
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