OKC colloquia

Fast Radio Bursts

Name: Fast Radio Bursts
Start: 2021-05-25T13:15:00+02:00
End: 2021-05-25T14:15:00+02:00
Location: Fysikum equipment

by Prof. Victoria Kaspi (McGill)

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 13:15 → 14:15 Europe/Stockholm

Fysikum equipment

Description

Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/62320153507

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are few-millisecond bursts of radio waves coming from far outside the Milky Way. Their origin is presently unknown. Some FRBs are observed to exhibit repeat bursts, but it is presently unknown whether they represent a single class of object or multiple classes. Recently there has been tremendous observational progress on understanding FRBs thanks to the CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB). In this talk, I review what is known about FRBs, and describe the latest CHIME/FRB results.