Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration bursts of radio waves coming from
cosmological distances. Their nature is presently unknown and an interesting astrophysical
mystery. Among key questions under consideration is whether FRBs represent one or multiple classes of object. I will review the observational properties of FRBs and their utility as novel probes of Large Scale Structure, with particular emphasis on results from CHIME, a novel Canadian digital radio telescope, and its three Outrigger telescopes which form a new “synoptic” Very Long Baseline array.
Speaker: Vicky Kaspi, McGill University
Host: Vicky Kalogera
CIERA Astrophysics
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