A long-period radio transient active for three decades.
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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462
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Date de publication:
Jul 2023
Jul 2023
Historique:
received:
07
02
2023
accepted:
11
05
2023
medline:
21
7
2023
pubmed:
20
7
2023
entrez:
19
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Several long-period radio transients have recently been discovered, with strongly polarized coherent radio pulses appearing on timescales between tens to thousands of seconds
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doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06202-5
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06202-5
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eng
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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
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