Colloquium Abstract - Gaensler - 2025Feb14

February 14, 2025

11:00am Mountain

Bryan Gaensler (UCSC)

 

Fast Radio Bursts and Their Foregrounds

 

Abstract

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a genuine cosmic mystery: we've studied them intensively for almost 20 years, but we're still not sure what they are. Despite us still not having the whole picture, huge strides have been made in the last few years, thanks to the extraordinary yield of thousands of new FRBs discovered by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). I will present some of the recent work from CHIME, and will particularly highlight the unique ways in which FRBs are superb probes of gas, magnetic fields, and turbulence along the line of sight.


Local Host: Dale Frail

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