June 13, 2021

The CHIME radio telescope (Photo courtesy CHIME)

At the 238th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), held in recent days, Researchers presented the results of fast radio bursts detections made using the CHIME radio telescope between July 25, 2018, and July 1, 2019, the first year of research with this instrument. Researchers from the CHIME collaboration detected 535 fast radio bursts including 61 bursts from 18 known repeating sources. The catalog presented on this occasion considerably expands the number of known fast radio bursts offering a lot of new information on these still mysterious phenomena. The differences between the characteristics of single and repeating bursts indicate even more that there are at least two mechanisms that produce them.