Artist’s impression (IMAGE)

The University of Hong Kong

Artist’s impression

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Artist’s impression illustrating a binary-origin scenario for fast radio bursts. A magnetised plasma cloud, generated by a coronal mass ejection from the companion star, crosses the line of sight to the FRB source, causing a sharp and transient variation in the rotation measure.

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Y. Liu, X. Yang, Y.F. Liang, W.L. Zhang and Y. Li (PMO)

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