Fast Radio Bursts and Cosmology
Amanda Weltman (University of Cape Town)
Abstract: Fast Radio Bursts are an exciting new area of study in transient and radio astronomy, with a plethora of possible physical driving mechanisms.They also hold the potential to be tools for understanding our universe on cosmological scales as well as for probing some fundamental physics questions. In this talk we will take a gentle stroll through some of these ideas and introduce the HIRAX experiment, hosted in South Africa, the next state of the art radio interferometer for detecting and localising Fast Radio Bursts.
Video of talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WswfvsmnOm8
Relevant papers:
[arxiv: 1909.02821] Probing Diffuse Gas with Fast Radio Bursts
[arxiv: 1905.07132] Fast Radio Burst Cosmology & HIRAX
Other References:
FRB Theory wiki: https://frbtheorycat.org/index.php/Main_Page
A Living Theory Catalogue for FRBs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05836
Amanda Weltman talk on "FRBs and Cosmology" at Cosmology Talks, hosted by Shaun Hotchkiss
cosmology and nongalactic astrophysicsgeneral relativity and quantum cosmology
Audience: advanced learners
CosmoConβ - Cosmology from Home
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| Curator: | Jerry M.* |
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