Parkes observations for project P871 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_04

Parkes observations for project P871 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_04

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration radio pulses hypothesized to originate at cosmological distances. To date, one FRB has been seen to repeat but their origins remain a puzzling mystery. Some have proposed FRBs come from Crab-like pulsar giant pulses or periods of high activity of distant magnetars. Both mechanisms would gene... morerate observable subsequent FRB-like events. In this proposal we directly test this hypothesis by monitoring the fields of two known FRBs to search for repeating pulses that may explain their progenitors. We target two sources with existing multi-wavelength archival images of the field and small DM-derived distances. less

Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified

https://doi.org/10.4225/08/59ab2b348599c

01 Apr 2017

30 Sep 2017

pulsars ;  neutron stars ;  surveys and studies of distant galaxies ;  transients ;  BPSR ;  HIPSR

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CSIRO (Australia)

Petroff, Emily; Possenti, A; Johnston, Simon; Kramer, M; Bailes, Matthew; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah; van Straten, Willem; Stappers, Benjamin; Keane, Evan; Champion, David; Jameson, Andrew; Ng, Cherry; Barr, Ewan; Flynn, Chris; Caleb, Manisha (2017): Parkes observations for project P871 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_04. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. https://doi.org/10.4225/08/59ab2b348599c

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