Localizations and Lenses: Looking towards Cosmology with CHIME/FRB
Event Start:
2022-03-28T15:00:00
Event End:
2022-03-28T16:00:00
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The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has discovered thousands of fast radio bursts (FRBs). The extremely high all-sky rate of FRBs implies that they have the potential to become powerful cosmological probes. Unlocking this potential requires localizing a large sample of FRBs to their host galaxies. Until now, precise localization within the host galaxy has only been accomplished in follow-up observations of repeating sources. Here, we demonstrate the localization of FRB 20210603A using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) at its time of first detection.
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Speaker:
Calvin Leung (MIT)
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Event Start:
2022-03-28T15:00:00
Event End:
2022-03-28T16:00:00
Localizations and Lenses: Looking towards Cosmology with CHIME/FRB
Event Information:
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has discovered thousands of fast radio bursts (FRBs). The extremely high all-sky rate of FRBs implies that they have the potential to become powerful cosmological probes. Unlocking this potential requires localizing a large sample of FRBs to their host galaxies. Until now, precise localization within the host galaxy has only been accomplished in follow-up observations of repeating sources. Here, we demonstrate the localization of FRB 20210603A using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) at its time of first detection.
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