Solving the Mystery of Long-Period Transients
Researchers from Curtin University, led by Associate Professor Natasha Hurley-Walker, may have uncovered how long-period radio transients were formed. The team discovered that M dwarfs (low-mass stars) in binary systems with another object, likely a white dwarf, produce powerful radio emissions as they interact with one another.
The radio signal was detected in data from the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, located at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory.
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Associate Professor Natasha Hurley-Walker discusses her team’s groundbreaking discovery on the formation of long-period radio transients. Credit: ICRAR.
