Events Calendar
Millisecond radio transients: a hot topic
Thursday April 23, 2015
| 2:00 pm
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Presenter: | Sarah Burke Spolaor, NRAO |
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| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Abstract: | Exploring the sky at millisecond durations has presented a fascinating and, at times, confusing journey. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio signals whose swept-frequency signals indicate a non-local origin. FRB science has been building rapidly since the first discovery of an FRB in 2007, as the origin of these bursts remains a mystery and presents an open challenge for theorists and observers alike. We are now able to detect FRB events in real-time, and are searching for FRBs with radio interferometers. This has opened up the possibility to understand their origins through arcsecond localization, and the identification of multi-wavelength counterparts. I will describe what we currently know about FRBs, and the status of the hunt for their enigmatic origins. | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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