PIRSA:16020100

The Hunt for Radio Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts

Kaspi, V. (2016). The Hunt for Radio Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/16020100

Kaspi, Victoria. The Hunt for Radio Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 03, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16020100 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:16020100,
            doi = {10.48660/16020100},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16020100},
            author = {Kaspi, Victoria},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Hunt for Radio Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2016},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:16020100 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Victoria Kaspi McGill University

DOI 10.48660/16020100
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Radio pulsars are Nature's most perfect clock and hence are useful for precision work on a wide variety of physical and astrophysical topics, ranging from sensitive tests of relativistic gravity to constraining the equation of state of ultradense matter. I will describe current ongoing surveys for radio pulsars using the two largest radio telescopes in the world, and how these surveys are also valuable for searching for Fast Radio Bursts, a newly recognized astrophysical phenomenon of unknown origin.