PIRSA:21110007

FRB science results from CHIME

Smith, K. (2021). FRB science results from CHIME. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/21110007

Smith, Kendrick. FRB science results from CHIME. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 03, 2021, https://pirsa.org/21110007 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:21110007,
            doi = {10.48660/21110007},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/21110007},
            author = {Smith, Kendrick},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {FRB science results from CHIME},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2021},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:21110007 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Kendrick Smith

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Abstract

Fast radio bursts (FRB's) are a recently discovered, poorly understood class of transient event, and understanding their origin has become a central problem in astrophysics. I will present FRB science results from CHIME, a new interferometric telescope at radio frequencies 400-800 MHz. In the 3 years since first light, CHIME has found ~20 times more FRB's than all other telescopes combined, including ~60 new repeating FRB's, the first repeating FRB with periodic activity, a giant pulse from a Galactic magnetar which may be an FRB in our own galaxy, and millisecond periodicity in FRB sub-pulses. These results were made possible by new algorithms which can be used to build radio telescopes orders of magnitude more powerful than CHIME. I will briefly describe two upcoming projects: outrigger telescopes for CHIME (starting 2022) and CHORD, a new telescope with ~10 times the CHIME mapping speed (starting 2024). 

Zoom Link: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/93798160318?pwd=Z3ZlNTRNRXV5MkQ5cUJhU09sVFpOdz09