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> "Optical, radio, and X-ray follow-up has been made for most of the reported bursts, with no associated transients found." What is a "transient" in this conte
by carbocation 7y ago
> "Optical, radio, and X-ray follow-up has been made for most of the reported bursts, with no associated transients found."
What is a "transient" in this context?
- imglorp 7y agoI think they're looking for changes in the sky from those locations. Supernovae for example leave visible traces--clouds, rings, shock fronts, etc and emit all kinds of radio and x-rays. But FRB's not so much, it would seem, so far anyway.
- grobibi 7y agoSpike in the waveform.
- 8bitsrule 7y agoI think this refers to a quick search through observations from other telescopes observing other EM frequency ranges ... to see if they saw short energy bursts at the same times. That's becoming common for, e.g., LIGO gravity wave observations.