September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... taken in 2001 with the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The pulse, dubbed the ‘Lorimer burst’, exhibited a ‘dispersion’ sweep characteristic of all pulsars. Pulsars are ultra dense, rotating neutron star remnants of a supernova...
04 November 2020
New studies reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
... radio pulse signal in data collected by the Parkes 64-metre telescope in Australia in 2001. The signal became known as a ‘Lorimer burst’ and for many years some astronomers were not convinced that these bright pulses of radiowaves were...
