Mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) helped astronomers weigh our galaxy.
At the same time, the array must survey a large chunk of the sky to have any hope of spotting the extremely short bursts. Surveying a large amount of sky means processing a lot of data, so the array's computers are processing 24 gigabytes per second. This is far beyond the capabilities of most computers we interact with" It would be like streaming 28,000 Netflix movies all at the same time.
"The DSA is now the world-leading instrument for this purpose," said Vikram Ravi, astronomer at Caltech, during the press conference. In 2022, its first year of operations, alone, DSA-110 helped astronomers discover 30 FRBs with precise locations, more than matching the 21 scientists had previously traced in the years since the first FRB was detected in 2007.
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