Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
Millisecond radio transients: a hot topic
Presented by Sarah Burke Spolaor, NRAO
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.
2:00 pm, Thursday, April 23, 2015
PAIS-2540, PAIS
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