Duncan Lorimer

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Duncan R. Lorimer (born 1969) is a British-born American astrophysicist, professor of astronomy at the West Virginia University who is known for the discovery of the first fast radio burst in 2007[1][2][3][4]

Discovery of fast radio burst[]

The first fast radio burst was discovered in 2007 when Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University assigned his student David Narkevic to look through archival data taken in 2001 by the Parkes radio dish in Australia.[5] Analysis of the survey data found a 30-jansky dispersed burst which occurred on 24 July 2001,[6] less than 5 milliseconds in duration, located 3° from the Small Magellanic Cloud. The burst became known as the Lorimer Burst or FRB 010724.[7]

Family[]

His wife Maura McLaughlin is a professor at West Virginia University too, they have three children.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "A brief history: What we know so far about fast radio bursts across the universe". phys.org. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  2. ^ "Burst of radio waves in Milky Way probably came from neutron star". The Guardian. 2020-11-04. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  3. ^ "Let's ask the co-discoverer of the Fast Radio Burst, Duncan Lorimer". Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  4. ^ Woo, Marcus. "There are weird bursts of energy coming from deep space". BBC. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  5. ^ McKee, Maggie (27 September 2007). "Extragalactic radio burst puzzles astronomers". New Scientist. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  6. ^ D. R. Lorimer; M. Bailes; M. A. McLaughlin; D. J. Narkevic; et al. (27 September 2007). "A Bright Millisecond Radio Burst of Extragalactic Origin". Science. 318 (5851): 777–780. arXiv:0709.4301. Bibcode:2007Sci...318..777L. doi:10.1126/science.1147532. hdl:1959.3/42649. PMID 17901298. S2CID 15321890. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  7. ^ Chiao, May (2013). "No flash in the pan". Nature Physics. 9 (8): 454. Bibcode:2013NatPh...9..454C. doi:10.1038/nphys2724.
  8. ^ "WVU Astrophysicist Making Waves, Discovering New Pulsars". The Neuron. Winter 2011.[failed verification]


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