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What To Do with Sparkers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

E. F. Keane ,
B. W. Stappers ,
M. Kramer  and
A. G. Lyne
E. F. Keane
Affiliation:
Max Planck Insitut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany. email: ekeane@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
B. W. Stappers
Affiliation:
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
M. Kramer
Affiliation:
Max Planck Insitut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany. email: ekeane@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
A. G. Lyne
Affiliation:
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
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Abstract

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In 2007, the discovery of the so-called “Lorimer Burst” was announced—a single radio pulse that was so dispersed that it could only have originated outside our Galaxy. The apparently unique event, together with the large inferred distance (a redshift z ~0.2 is required to explain its high dispersion) implies a very high luminosity. Suggested progenitors include a supernova, a binary neutron-star merger, and a black-hole annihilation event. Crude estimates of the rates of such events predict that many such bursts should already be detectable in archived pulsar-survey data, and has led to detailed searches which have had some success.

Keywords

Surveysstars: evolutionstars: neutronstars:supernovae:generalISM:general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 342 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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