Hi, Astronomer! I've been looking for someone to ask this question for a long time. Could FRBs be coming from different kinds of events (instead of all having the same kind of cause) and are there differences between FRBs (a sort of an FRB "fingerprint" if you will) by which to classify them into different categories?
Like, could some FRBs be the result of neutron star collisions while other FRBs are the result of alien hyperdrives and could we possibly tell the difference based on what we can observe?
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Hi, Astronomer! I've been looking for someone to ask this question for a long time. Could FRBs be coming from different kinds of events (instead of all having the same kind of cause) and are there differences between FRBs (a sort of an FRB "fingerprint" if you will) by which to classify them into different categories?
Like, could some FRBs be the result of neutron star collisions while other FRBs are the result of alien hyperdrives and could we possibly tell the difference based on what we can observe?