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A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin

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Pulsar surveys offer one of the few opportunities to monitor even a small fraction (~0.00001) of the radio sky for impulsive burst-like events with millisecond durations. In analysis of archival survey data, we have discovered a 30-Jy dispersed burst of duration <5 ms located three degrees from the Small Magellanic Cloud. The burst properties argue against a physical association with our Galaxy or the Small Magellanic Cloud. Current models for the free electron content in the Universe imply a distance to the burst of <1 Gpc No further bursts are seen in 90-hr of additional observations, implying that it was a singular event such as a supernova or coalescence of relativistic objects. Hundreds of similar events could occur every day and act as insightful cosmological probes.

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Relativistically-strong electromagnetic waves in magnetized plasmas

astro-ph.HE · 2025-09-21 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Nonlinear relativistic EM waves in magnetized plasmas show modified dispersion relations where subluminal modes terminate at finite frequency when wave electric field exceeds guide field B0, preventing further propagation.

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