X-Ray Emission Linked to Milky Way's Rare 44-Minute Transient
TL;DR
Astronomers at ICRAR and partners have identified ASKAP J1832-0911 as a rare long-period transient that emits radio bursts every 44 minutes and, for the first time, X-rays observed by Chandra. This cross-wavelength detection from a source about 15,000 light-years away in the Milky Way provides crucial clues to the origin of LPTs and could point to new physics or revised stellar evolution models, with possible explanations including a magnetar or a magnetized white-dwarf binary. The discovery underscores the value of simultaneous radio and X-ray observations to find more such objects.
Topics:scienceastronomy#askap-j1832-0911#astronomy#long-period-transient#magnetar#radio-astronomy#x-ray-emission
- “Unlike Anything We Have Seen Before” – An Unexplained Space Object Is Sending Powerful Signals Across the Galaxy SciTechDaily
- Puzzling slow radio pulses are coming from space. A new study could finally explain them The Conversation
- A binary model of long-period radio transients and white dwarf pulsars Nature
- A binary star system explains mysterious radio pulses across the Milky Way Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya - IEEC
Want the full story? Read the original reporting
Read on SciTechDaily