Colloq Abstract - Ng
March 12
1:00pm MT
Cherry Ng (Toronto)
Commissioning CHIME for pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts
Abstract
The recently commissioned CHIME telescope (the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) is located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia in Canada. CHIME operates across a wide bandwidth of 400-800 MHz and has a collecting area and sensitivity equivalent to that of other 100-m class radio telescopes. Our large instantaneous field-of-view of over 200 square degrees gives us high survey efficiency; and our real-time detection pipeline allows for a detail study of transient events such as Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). In this talk, I will share my experience on the deployment of CHIME and present latest progress of the CHIME/FRB+Pulsar projects.
