blitzar

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of blitz +‎ star. Proposed in 2013 by Heino Falcke and Luciano Rezzolla. Analyzable as blitz +‎ -ar.

Noun

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blitzar (plural blitzars)

  1. (astronomy, neologism) A phenomenon that emits a fast radio burst.
  2. (astronomy, neologism) The object type that generates the phenomenon which emits the burst.

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