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Parkes observations for project P871 semester 2016OCTS

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Title Parkes observations for project P871 semester 2016OCTS
 
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, 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 generate 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.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Andrea Possenti
Simon Johnston
Michael Kramer
Matthew Bailes
Sarah Burke-Spolaor
Willem van Straten
Benjamin Stappers
Evan Keane
David Champion
Andrew Jameson
Cherry Ng
Ewan Barr
Chris Flynn
Manisha Caleb
 
Date 2017-05-07
 
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Identifier csiro:P871-2016OCTS
 
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