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Parkes observations for project P958 semester 2017OCTS_BPSR_08

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Title Parkes observations for project P958 semester 2017OCTS_BPSR_08
 
Creator Ryan Shannon
 
Subject Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
 
Description A major breakthrough in fast radio burst (FRB) astronomy was recently made when the repeating FRB 121102 was localized to sub-arcsecond precision. The bursts were found to originate in a bright radio nebula (hypothesized to be a young supernova remnant or pulsar wind nebulae) in a distant dwarf galaxy. These dwarf galaxies are also preferential hosts to superluminous supernova and long gamma-ray bursts, and it has been therefore suggested that the source of the repeating FRB could be a young highly magnetised neutron star. While an understanding of the repeating FRB is emerging, it is still unclear what relationship it has to the rest of the population. Over the next six months, searches with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) are poised to nearly triple the known FRB population. Here we propose to search this population for repeats. Our comprehensive sample and a dense monitoring campaign of well localised bursts, at a fluence limit more than 60 times lower than that of their detections, will either confirm the presence of additional repeating FRBs or the uniqueness of FRB 121102 amongst the population.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Jean-Pierre Macquart
Richard Dodson
Adam Deller
Clancy James
Keith Bannister
Stefan Oslowski
Chris Flynn
Shivani Bhandari
 
Date 2018-02-09
 
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Identifier csiro:29201
 
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