Colloquium Abstract - Lorimer - 2025May23

May 23, 2025

11:00am Mountain

Duncan Lorimer (WVU)

 

The Growing Population of Fast Radio Bursts

 

Abstract

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of as-yet unknown cosmological origin. As the second decade of research into FRBs is coming to a close, the current sample of these enigmatic objects stands at around 1000 with several thousand more expected soon. In this talk I review what has been learned from this sample and highlight some of the exciting prospects to look forward to in the coming decade..


Local Host: Paul Demorest

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