MODEL FRONTIER 2026 · JWST · MAGNETAR · under KEEPER ERIS

FRB 20240304B · Farthest Fast Radio Burst

The most distant fast radio burst yet, at z = 2.148 (about 3 billion years after the Big Bang). Its host is a tiny young dwarf, which points to young magnetars rather than neutron-star mergers.

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LIT MeerTRAP/MeerKAT detected it on 4 March 2024. Webb NIRCam found the host and NIRSpec gave z = 2.148. The host is about 1000× less massive than expected and formed most of its stars within about 30 Myr. The signal also carries imprints of an unknown cluster at z = 0.3 and the Virgo Cluster (Caleb et al., Science, 8 Oct 2026).

LIT Dispersion: the arrival delay scales as 1/ν², so at 4.15 ms × DM × (ν/GHz)^−2 the low frequencies arrive later. That is the sweep drawn here.

MODEL Tie to Dave's world: Magnetars are young neutron stars, cousins of his three named pulsars (V4.7).

MODEL Art: dispersed rings. Each frequency colour is launched with a 1/ν² delay.

AMBER The DM value used in the art (2000 pc cm⁻³) is illustrative, not the measured one.

Sources (browsed Oct 2026)

  1. ESA/Webb weic2621: Webb measures distance to farthest fast radio burst (8 Oct 2026)
  2. ESA/Webb press releases 2026

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Live workspace log:

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