Ziteng Wang, icrar
Bizarre object located 15 thousand light years of the sun emits a two-minute drive every 44 minutes.
“This object is unlike anything we have seen before,” begins by explaining the University of Curtin’s astronomer Ziteng Andy Wang. Refers to a mysterious object found on the Milky Way, the 15,000 light years away from the sun.
What distinguishes these objects from other mysterious is that it is not only slowly and methodically emitting radio waves-each pulse is also emitting emissions in X-ray wavelengths.
It was baptized as Askap J1832-0911, advances A, and emits a two -minute boost every 44 minutes, which consists of radio waves and x -rays.
“Discovering that Askap J1832-0911 was emitting X-rays was like finding a needle in a haystack,” says Wang. “The Askap radiotlescope has a vast field of view of the night sky, while Chandra observes only a fraction of it.”
The impulses of the object are very bright, and the brightness of both types of emission is correlated. What is strange object is this?
“Askap J1831-0911 can be a magnetar (The core of a dead star with powerful magnetic fields), or may be a pair of stars in a binary system where one of the two is a highly magnetized white dwarf (a low mass star at the end of its evolution), ”says the investigator.
“However, even these theories do not fully explain what we are observing. This discovery can indicate a new type of physics or new models of star evolution,” says the author of the published in Nature this week.
“Find one of these objects suggests the existence of many more“, Comments also the astronoma Nanda Rea.” The discovery of its transient x -ray emission opens new perspectives on its mysterious nature. “
