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Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2016OCTS_BPSR_17

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Title Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2016OCTS_BPSR_17
 
Creator Evan Keane
 
Subject Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
 
Description SUPERBx is an extension to the SUPERB survey which looks at the highest Galactic latitudes in a search for fast radio bursts (FRBs). Our most recent results show that there is a strong Galactic latitude dependence to FRB detectability with the detection rate being 4 times higher ~45 degrees and higher above the plane; this is where SUPERBx will focus its efforts from now on. SUPERBx uses optimised GPU codes to search for pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), making discoveries in real time. Handling our data as it comes in is essential for the SKA Phase I era so this work applies directly to the high-data rates of next generation telescopes. The FRBs discovered (we have already discovered four FRBs in this project) will have much more associated information than all previous detections. Firstly our discovery lag is ~1 second, rather than months/years. The Parkes observations will be shadowed by other radio telescopes (in particular the refurbished Molonglo which has now reached a level of performance where it has independently discovered 3 FRBs in 2016) to allow localisation of the discovered FRBs, and a host of optical and high-energy telescopes will then be triggered as appropriate. This is key for identifying FRB host galaxies, so as to solve the mystery of their progenitors and to exploit their many uses as tools for precision cosmology measurements.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Andrea Possenti
James Green
Simon Johnston
Michael Kramer
Marta Burgay
Matthew Bailes
Ramesh Bhat
Sarah Burke-Spolaor
Ralph Eatough
Willem van Straten
Benjamin Stappers
Lina Levin
Andrew Jameson
Cherry Ng
Caterina Tiburzi
Emily Petroff
Ewan Barr
Chris Flynn
Fabian Jankowski
Manisha Caleb
Vincent Morello
Shivani Bhandari
 
Date 2017-02-20
 
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Identifier csiro:21756
 
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