{"id":235673,"date":"2026-04-21T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/chime-tracks-a-hyperactive-repeating-fast-radio-burst-source"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:19:55","slug":"chime-tracks-a-hyperactive-repeating-fast-radio-burst-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/chime-tracks-a-hyperactive-repeating-fast-radio-burst-source","title":{"rendered":"CHIME tracks a hyperactive repeating fast radio burst source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chime-tracks-a-hyperactive-repeating-fast-radio-burst-source.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), an international team of astronomers has performed radio observations of FRB 20220912A\u2014a highly active source of repeating fast radio bursts. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2604.09098\" target=\"_blank\">Results of the monitoring campaign<\/a>, published April 10 on the preprint server <i>arXiv<\/i>, could help us better understand the nature of these enigmatic sources.<\/p>\n<p>Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense bursts of radio emission lasting milliseconds showcasing the characteristic dispersion sweep of radio pulsars. The physical nature of these bursts is yet unknown, and astronomers consider a variety of explanations ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-astronomers-linked-mysterious-fast-radio.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">synchrotron maser emission<\/a> from young magnetars in supernova remnants to cosmic string cusps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), an international team of astronomers has performed radio observations of FRB 20220912A\u2014a highly active source of repeating fast radio bursts. Results of the monitoring campaign, published April 10 on the preprint server arXiv, could help us better understand the nature of these enigmatic sources. Fast radio bursts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}