Radio streaks in the Lighthouse Nebula discovered with MeerKAT -- Particles escaping from the tail and illuminating the ambient magnetic field

arXiv:2601.18596 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-01-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-01-26

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Streaming Instability — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Coherence Length — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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