A powerful bursting radio source towards the Galactic Centre

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7029, 2005, Pages 50-52

  Hyman, Scott D ^a   Lazio, T Joseph W ^b   Kassim, Namir E ^b   Ray, Paul S ^b   Markwardt, Craig B ^c   Yusef Zadeh, Farhad ^d  

^a SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CONDITION MONITORING; GAMMA RAYS; RADIO TELESCOPES; THERMAL EFFECTS; X RAYS;

COHERENT EMISSION; ENERGY DENSITY; HIGH-TIME-RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS; RADIO SOURCES;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SAMPLING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELESCOPE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 14844304713     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03400     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Cordes, J. M., Lazio, T. J. W. & McLaughlin, M. A. The dynamic radio sky. Preprint at 〈http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410045〈 (2004).
2. Hankins, T. H., Kern, J. S., Weatherall, J. C. & Eilek, J. A. Nanosecond radio bursts from strong plasma turbulence in the Crab pulsar. Nature 422, 141-143 (2003).
3. Bradt, H., Levine, A., Remillard, R. & Smith, D. A. in AIP Conf. Proc. on X-ray Astronomy: Stellar Endpoints, AGN, and the Diffuse X-ray Background (eds White, N. E., Malaguti, G. & Palumbo, G. G. C.) 599, 35-52 (2001).
4. Hyman, S. D., Lazio, T. J. W., Kassim, N. E. & Bartleson, A. L. Low-frequency radio transients in the galactic center. Astron. J. 123, 1497-1501 (2002).
5. Hyman, S. D., Lazio, T. J. W., Kassim, N. E., Nord, M. E. & Neureuther, J. L. A search for radio transients at 0.33 GHz in the GC. Astron. Nachr. 324(S1), 79-83 (2003).
6. Readhead, A. C. S. Equipartition brightness temperature and the inverse Compton catastrophe. Astrophys. J. 426, 51-59 (1994).
7. Melrose, D. B. Coherent emission in AGN: a critique. Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust. 19, 34-38 (2002).
8. The long wavelength array. 〈http://lwa.nrl.navy.mil〉 (Naval Research Laboratory, 2004).
9. Reich, W. & Fürst, E. G357.7+0.3 and G359.1-0.5-two shell-type supernova remnants in the galactic centre region. Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 57, 165-167 (1984).
10. Yusef-Zadeh, F. & Bally, J. A non-thermal axially symmetric radio wake towards the galactic centre. Nature 330, 455-458 (1987).
11. Gray, A. D., Cram, L. E., Ekers, R. D. & Goss, W. M. A filamentary radio source near the galactic centre. Nature 353, 237-239 (1991).
12. Nord, M. E. et al. High-resolution, wide-field imaging of the galactic center region at 330 MHz. Astron. J. 128, 1646-1670 (2004).
13. Bastian, T. S., Bookbinder, J., Dulk, G. A. & Davis, M. Dynamic spectra of radio bursts from flare stars. Astrophys. J. 353, 265-273 (1990).
14. Farrell, W. M., Desch, M. D. & Zarka, P. On the possibility of coherent cyclotron emission from extrasolar planets. J. Geophys. Res. 104, 14025-14032 (1999).
15. Lazio, T. J. W. et al. The radiometric Bode's Law and extrasolar planets. Astrophys. J. 612, 511-518 (2004).
16. Bastian, T. S., Dulk, G. A. & Leblanc, Y. A search for radio emission from extrasolar planets. Astrophys. J. 545, 1058-1063 (2000).
17. Guedel, M. Stellar radio astronomy: probing stellar atmospheres from protostars to giant. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 40, 217-261 (2002).
18. Cutri, R. M. et al. The 2MASS All-sky Catalog of Point Sources (University of Massachusetts and Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, IPAC/California Institute of Technology, 2003).
19. Burgasser, A. J. et al. The spectra of T dwarfs. 1. Near-infrared data and spectral classification. Astrophys. J. 564, 421-451 (2002).
20. Berger, E. et al. Discovery of radio emission from the brown dwarf LP944-20. Nature 410, 338-340 (2001).
21. Berger, E. Flaring up all over-radio activity in rapidly rotating late M and L dwarfs. Astrophys. J. 572, 503-513 (2002).
22. Putman, M. E. & Burgasser, A. J. Radio emission from late-type dwarfs: quiescent emission and a spectacular radio flare from the M9 DENIS 1048-3956. Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 35, Abstr. 43.07 (2003); 〈http://www.aas. org/publications/baas/v35n5/aas203/1159.htm〉.
23. Dulk, G. A. & Marsh, K. A. Simplified expressions for the gyrosynchrotron radiation from mildly relativistic, nonthermal and thermal electrons. Astrophys. J. 259, 350-358 (1982).
24. Bruggmann, G. & Magun, A. Temporal and spectral characteristics of the circular polarization of solar microwave bursts. Astron. Astrophys. 239, 347-355 (1990).
25. Mayer-Hasselwander, H. A. et al. High-energy gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Center. Astron. Astrophys. 335, 161-172 (1998).
26. Marscher, A. P. et al. Observational evidence for the accretion-disk origin for a radio jet in an active galaxy. Nature 417, 625-627 (2002).
27. Fender, R. P. et al. Merlin observations of relativistic ejections from GRS 1915+105. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 304, 365-876 (1999).
28. Lyne, A. G. et al. A double-pulsar system: a rare laboratory for relativistic gravity and plasma physics. Science 303, 1153-1157 (2004).
29. Woods, P. M. & Thompson, C. Soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars: magnetar candidates. In Compact Stellar X-ray Sources (eds Lewin, W. H. G. & van der Klis, M.) (in the press); preprint at 〈http://arXiv.org/ astro-ph/0406133〉.
30. Zhao, J-H. et al. A transient radio source near the center of the milky way galaxy. Science 255, 1538-1543 (1992).