@inbook{c5fdc70520f64154a22c015310450cf9,
title = "What to do with sparkers?",
abstract = "In 2007, the discovery of the so-called Lorimer Burst was announced - a single radio pulse that was so dispersed that it could only have originated outside our Galaxy. The apparently unique event, together with the large inferred distance (a redshift z ~0.2 is required to explain its high dispersion) implies a very high luminosity. Suggested progenitors include a supernova, a binary neutron-star merger, and a black-hole annihilation event. Crude estimates of the rates of such events predict that many such bursts should already be detectable in archived pulsar-survey data, and has led to detailed searches which have had some success.",
keywords = "ISM:general, stars: evolution, stars: neutron, stars:supernovae:general, Surveys",
author = "Keane, {E. F.} and Stappers, {B. W.} and M. Kramer and Lyne, {A. G.}",
year = "2011",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1017/S1743921312001007",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781107019850",
series = "Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press ",
number = "S285",
pages = "342--343",
booktitle = "New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy",
edition = "S285",
}