PIRSA:17050003

Studying Fast Radio Bursts with the HIRAX Telescope

Peterson, J. (2017). Studying Fast Radio Bursts with the HIRAX Telescope. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17050003

Peterson, Jeff. Studying Fast Radio Bursts with the HIRAX Telescope. Perimeter Institute, May. 16, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17050003 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17050003,
            doi = {10.48660/17050003},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17050003},
            author = {Peterson, Jeff},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Studying Fast Radio Bursts with the HIRAX Telescope},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:17050003 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Jeff Peterson

Carnegie Mellon University

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Abstract

Fast Radio Bursts are mysterious radio flashes that appear to have extragalactic origin. The inferred isotropic brightness temperature for these events can exceed 10^34 K. Discovered in 2006, only about 25 have been reported to date. I will give a short summary of the these events then explain how a new generation of dense radio arrays will dramatically improve our understanding of these burst. The HIRAX telescope in South Africa will detect about 10 FRBs per day and will localize these events with sub-arcsecond precision. A next generation of packed array could detect one every minute, allowing tomography of the ionized universe.