Tiny star behaves like both a sun and a planet
A well-known star is behaving somewhat like a planet, a SIfA-led team has found. PhD candidate Andrew Zic and his collaborators have discovered pulsed radio emission from UV Ceti, a dwarf star with a mass just a tenth of the Sun’s. The emission has a characteristic that until recently has only been seen in radio …
AI now detecting Fast Radio Bursts in real-time
A Swinburne PhD student has built an automated system featuring artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and capture the details of fast radio bursts in real time. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious and powerful flashes of radio waves from space, thought to originate billions of light years from the Earth. They last for only a …