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A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision

A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision

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·August 24, 2025
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I am generally well read across a wide variety of fields, but now and again I come across a sentence or paragraph where the sheer density of information packed into a small number of well-chosen field-specific terms just stops me in my tracks. The abstract for this paper is a testament to the ability of jargon to increase the information carrying capacity of the limited bitrate of human language - it hit my head like a zip bomb.

addaon

Is kJy as a brightness unit the abomination I think it is?

bqmjjx0kac

You nerd sniped me :) In this context, I believe it is a kilo-Jansky, not a kilo-Joule * year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansky

sema4hacker

Every day Hacker News titles, stories, and comments have acronyms and abbreviations I've never seen before, and I have to search for the term to know what it's talking about. I know what a parsec is, but I've never actually seen the pc abbreviation used before. At least I learn something new every day.

a1o

You didn't mention but I guess pc here stands for parsecs

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