SN 2024afav Reveals Lense-Thirring Precession Evidence

Joseph Farah and colleagues report SN 2024afav as first direct magnetar evidence.
Fallback debris created misaligned accretion disk causing Lense-Thirring precession.
SN 2024afav was tracked for 200 days, peaking on Day 50 with four brightness bumps.
Magnetar spins 238 times per second with magnetic field 300 trillion times Earth's.
Study confirms Dan Kasen's 2010 magnetar hypothesis and tests general relativity.
Researchers expect dozens of chirping supernovae from Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Astronomy | Physics | Astrophysics

United States | Chile

Joseph Farah | Dan Kasen

4 weeks ago