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Those 'discoveries' are just confirmations of prior discovery by other telescopes of a particular repeating fast radio burst.
by superkuh 7y ago
Those 'discoveries' are just confirmations of prior discovery by other telescopes of a particular repeating fast radio burst.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoYou can't discount it that easily: they report bursts unobserved by other instruments, which could be a second burst mechanism that hasn't been seen before due to its lower flux. Also FAST has discovered about 100 new pulsars, in at least one case they detected a pulsar at a position Arecibo had observed three times already and not finding anything.
- simion314 7y agoAnd that is as expected, the article mentions that this telescope is more sensitive but it has a smaller field of view so it is used to get better images of areas indicated by a different telescope that has a much larger field of view.