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A pulsar-like polarization angle swing from a nearby fast radio burst

Kilpatrick, Charles D.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Kaspi, Victoria M. +41 more

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for milliseconds and arrive at Earth from cosmological distances. Although their origins and emission mechanisms are unknown, their signals bear similarities with the much less luminous radio emission generated by pulsars within our Miky Way Galaxy¹, with properties suggesting neutron star origins^2,3