Host Galaxy and Foreground Galaxy (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Host Galaxy and Foreground Galaxy

Caption

Imaging with the FORS2 instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile shows the host galaxy of the fast radio burst FRB 181112, with the position of the burst depicted by the red ellipses. The brighter galaxy located nearby is in the foreground, and sight-line to FRB 181112 passes through the halo of this foreground galaxy.

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Prochaska et al., Science 2019

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