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Parkes observations for project P871 semester 2016APRS

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Title Parkes observations for project P871 semester 2016APRS
 
Creator Emily Petroff
 
Subject Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
 
Description Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration radio pulses hypothesized to originate at cosmological distances. To date, no counterpart sources have been associated with FRBs and their origins remain a puzzling mystery. Some have proposed FRBs come from Crab-like pulsar giant pulses or rare bursts from main sequence flare stars in our Galaxy. Both mechanisms would generate observable subsequent FRB-like events. In this proposal we directly test this hypothesis by conducting observations of three known FRBs in a very sensitive observing mode. With these observations we will set strict limits on any repetition from these sources.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Andrea Possenti
Simon Johnston
Michael Kramer
M Bailes
Sarah Burke-Spolaor
Willem van Straten
Evan Keane
David Champion
Andrew Jameson
Cherry Ng
Ewan Barr
Chris Flynn
Manisha Caleb
 
Date 2016-10-17
 
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Identifier csiro:P871-2016APRS
 
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