J. Xavier Prochaska

J. Xavier Prochaska

Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz; Astronomer, UC Observatories.

Brightest fast radio burst ever seen lets researchers pinpoint origin with unprecedented precision

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Using newly deployed telescope arrays, our team identified the brightest fast radio burst ever detected — in a nearby galaxy — and localized it with unprecedented precision, challenging prior assumptions about where and how these bursts arise.

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Welcome! This is the new home for my research, publications, and software.

Record-breaking fast radio burst is most distant ever detected

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A global team I contributed to detected an eight-billion-year-old fast radio burst — the most ancient and distant yet localized — using telescopes across three continents, pushing FRBs further than ever as probes of the cosmos.