Artificial intelligence helps track down mysterious cosmic radio bursts
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 20:10
in Astronomy & Space
Fast radio bursts are powerful blasts of energy from across the cosmos caused by unknown events, perhaps emissions from a collapsed and highly magnetized neutron star. One FRB source has attracted attention because it repeats. Researchers recorded radio data from this source and scraped it with a new machine learning algorithm that uncovered 72 new bursts undetected by normal techniques.