A Mysterious Object in Deep Space Has Blinked Every 22 Minutes for Over 30 Years
, but the team wanted to know if the object was unique or if there were others like it. Sweeps using the Murchison Widefield Array between July 2022 and September 2022 turned up GPM J1839-10, with its radio bursts that could persist up to five times longer than the first magnetar they spotted.
The star’s period, the team wrote, is “at the very limit of any classical theoretical model that predicts dipolar radio emission from an isolated neutron star.”In a perplexing twist, the magnetar shouldn’t be able to emit the energetic outbursts the team is seeing. “The object we’ve discovered is spinning way too slowly to produce radio waves—it’s below the death line,” Hurley-Walker said. “Assuming it’s a magnetar, it shouldn’t be possible for this object to produce radio waves.
More data on more magnetars will help clarify how much of an outlier GPM J1839-10 is compared to other radio wave sources. The Square Kilometer Array will certainly help that search. Set to be the world’s largest radio telescope,
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