Rotating radio transient
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Rotating radio transient
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Rotating radio transients (RRATs) are sources of short, moderately bright, radio pulses, which were first discovered in 2006. RRATs are thought to be pulsars, i.e. rotating magnetised neutron stars which emit more sporadically and/or with higher pulse-to-pulse variability than the bulk of the known pulsars. The working definition of what a RRAT is, is a pulsar which is more easily discoverable in a search for bright single pulses, as opposed to in Fourier domain searches so that 'RRAT' is little
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Phenomenon in radio astronomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_radio_transient
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2023-07-10T19:20:06Z
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