Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst

doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04841-8

Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst

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National Research Council of Canada
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Academia Sinica - Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Yale University
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
University of Amsterdam

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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration flashes of radio waves that are visible at distances of billions of light years¹. The nature of their progenitors and their emission mechanism remain open astrophysical questions². Here we report the detection of the multicomponent FRB 20191221A and the identification of a periodic separation of 216.8(1) ms between its components, with a significance of 6.5σ. The long (roughly 3 s) duration and nine or more components forming the pulse profile make this source an outlier in the FRB population. Such short periodicity provides strong evidence for a neutron-star origin of the event. Moreover, our detection favours emission arising from the neutron-star magnetosphere^3,4, as opposed to emission regions located further away from the star, as predicted by some models⁵.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	256-259
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature
Volume	607
Issue number	7918
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04841-8
State	Published - Jul 14 2022

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Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst

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