A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5851, 2007, Pages 777-780

  Lorimer, D R ^a,b   Bailes, M ^c   McLaughlin, M A ^a,b   Narkevic, D J ^a   Crawford, F ^d  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; COALESCENCE; SURVEY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; COSMOS; ELECTRON; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 40749098253     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147532     Document Type: Article

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