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Astronomers have discovered an amazing heavenly organism that emitted from bright flashes Radio waves X -rays that last for two minutes and repeat every 44 minutes.
In a new development, the discovery is the first time a strong X -ray is associated with a long transient object. Astronomers first discovered this new encoded category of things in 2022, and less than ten ten were found.
“LPT) is a recently specific category of cosmic things that emit with bright flashes of radio waves every few minutes to several hours,” said Dr. Andy Wang, assistant lecturer at the Cortin Institute of Astronomy in Australia. “What are these things, and how their unusual signals are born, remain a mystery.”
The object, named Askap J1832-0911, is located about 15,000 light years of Earth in the same galaxy as our solar system.
X -ray emissions, which I discovered Chandra X -ray Observatory from NASAThe key to helping astronomers can be more about the true nature of these interesting cosmic things and their beating behavior.
“Usually X -rays come from very hot and vital environments, so their existence indicates nature.
Wang said that the long -time crossings seemed more vibrant than he had previously thought if they could produce X -rays, which have more energy than radio waves.
A picture of the sky shows the area around ASKAP J1832-0911. X -ray notes are from the Chandra X -ray Observatory in NASA, radio data from the South Africa radio telescope, and infrared data from the Spitzer telescope in NASA. – Ziteng (Andy) Wang/ICRAR
Costume puzzle
Now, researchers are trying to know the source of ASKAP J1832-0911 of X-ray and x-rays, which are not fit with an elegant classification box, and whether it is a long passing truly long or eccentric period.
Initially, the team believed that the object might be MagnettarOr the dense residue of a star with a very strong magnetic field, or a pair of stars that includes a very magnetic dead star called a white dwarf. The researchers said that any of those who are compatible with bright and changing emissions from radio waves and x -rays.
Wang said: “This object is different from anything we have seen before.” “Even these theories do not fully explain what we notice. This discovery can indicate a new type of physics or new stars.”
Astronomers have followed a long transit discovery in a long period, He announced in MarchTo a white dwarf that is closely spinning a cold red dwarf star. The two stars are so closely spinning that their magnetic fields interact, emitting from the long radio bursts.
In that study, researchers discovered signals in visible and infrared light that correspond to the signals they noticed, indicating that they may belong to two different types of organisms. He said that the Wang team did not make such notes on ASKAP J1832-0911.
A vehicle image is close to the brightness of ASKAP J1832-0911 in X-rays and radio light. – NASA/Cxc/ICRAR/CURTIN University/Z. Wang and others/Sarao/Mercat/Sao/N. And the Look
Charlie Kilpatrick, composed of the March study, called the New Find “sexy”. He did not participate in the new research.
“The nature of this source blocks the gap between the most extreme magnetic magnetic and the white dwarves, which tells us the extent of the extreme compact (these) things.”
Wang said that the X -ray notes in the future may reveal more about the object, such as its temperature and size, which researchers can use to determine the source. But new discoveries already change the way Wang and his collaborators think of long transient signals in the period.
Disclosure of an opportunity
Radioid astronomers regularly wipe the sky using Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, or ASKAP, located in the country of Wajarri Yamaji in Western Australia and managed by the Organization for Scientific and Industrial Research in Australia, or CSIRO.
Wang that Wang and his collaborators first chose a bright sign of the object in December 2023. Then, the object was launched very bright pulses of radio waves in February 2024. Less than 30 known creatures in the sky have reached such brightness in radio waves.
The ASKAP radio telescope appears in the country of Wajarri Yamaji in western Australia. Alex Chero/CSIRO
Suppament, the Chandra X -ray Observatory was referring to something else, but this happened to take notes of X -rays of the “crazy” bright stage of the long period.
Wang said: “Discover that ASKAP J1832-0911 was emitting from X-rays that felt as if to find a needle in a straw pile,” said Wang. “ASKAP radio telescope has a wide view of the night sky, while Chandra notes only a small part of it. So, it was fortunate that Chandra noticed the same area of the night sky at the same time.”
Unlike the stars of nitron, the fast spinning is called Pulsars, which release pulses that last one to seconds, J1832-0911 asks periodically in the radio wave and X-ray density every 44 minutes. The object also decreased in the intensity of X -rays and the density of the radio wave. Chandra’s observations showed six months later in August 2024 any X -rays.
Also use the team CarakoOr coherent core of astronomy, which was recently developed to detect mysterious rapid radio bursts, or long flashes of radio waves, and other heavenly phenomena. The tool can quickly scan and process data to form bursts and export in its location.
“This is the equivalent of sifting a whole beach of sand to search for one currency of five cents every minute,” said Dr. Keith Banyster, astronomer and engineer CSIRO who helped develop the instrument.
But Craaco is also able to discover the long radio pulses and helped the team to determine that radio waves bursts were a repetition. Other notes showed that X -rays were repeated as well.
Wang said that the data of telescopes in the United States, South Africa, India and collaborators from all over the world made a very rare detection really a really global effort.
Moving forward, Wang and his team will continue to search for more things that emit long radio pulses.
“There is one of these things that hints to a lot,” said Dr. Nanda Raya, the author’s author, a professor at the Institute of Space Sciences and the Institute of Space Studies in Catalonia, Spain. “The discovery of transit X -ray emissions opens new visions in their mysterious nature.”
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