[Interview] Modern Day Space Enigmas. Fast Radio Bursts

July 28th, 2025
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FRBs are a great example of a modern day space mystery. We've seen a lot of them. We know a fair amount about them. But we still don't really know for sure how do they work and what's their true source. Some of them can be super weird. How exactly? Finding out in this interview.

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🟣 Guest: Dr. Fengqui Adam Dong

πŸ“œ A β€˜Unicorn’ Object Defies Astrophysics
https://public.nrao.edu/news/unicorn-object/

πŸ“œ CHIME/FRB Discovery of an Unusual Circularly Polarized Long-Period Radio Transient with an
Accelerating Spin Period
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05139

00:00 Intro
01:52 FRB on a conference
10:10 Source of FRB
19:59 New research
32:21 Current obsessions
36:03 Final thoughts

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