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First interferometric detections of Fast Radio Bursts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

M. Caleb ,
C. Flynn ,
M. Bailes ,
E. D. Barr ,
T. Bateman ,
S. Bhandari ,
D. Campbell-Wilson ,
W. Farah ,
A. J. Green  and
R. W. Hunstead
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M. Caleb
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, ACT, 2611, Australia email: manisha.caleb@manchester.ac.uk Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
C. Flynn
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
M. Bailes
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
E. D. Barr
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
T. Bateman
Affiliation:
Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
S. Bhandari
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
D. Campbell-Wilson
Affiliation:
Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
W. Farah
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
A. J. Green
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
R. W. Hunstead
Affiliation:
Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
A. Jameson
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
F. Jankowski
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
E. F. Keane
Affiliation:
SKA Organisation, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, SK11 9DL, UK
A. Parthasarathy
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
V. Ravi
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, MC249-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
P. A. Rosado
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia Monash Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
W. van Straten
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia Institute for Radio Astronomy & Space Research, Auckland University of Technology, Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
V. Venkatraman Krishnan
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
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Abstract

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The class of radio transients called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) encompasses enigmatic single pulses, each unique in its own way, hindering a consensus for their origin. The key to demystifying FRBs lies in discovering many of them in order to identity commonalities – and in real time, in order to find potential counterparts at other wavelengths. The recently upgraded UTMOST in Australia, is undergoing a backend transformation to rise as a fast transient detection machine. The first interferometric detections of FRBs with UTMOST, place their origin beyond the near-field region of the telescope thus ruling out local sources of interference as a possible origin. We have localised these bursts to much better than the ones discovered at the Parkes radio telescope and have plans to upgrade UTMOST to be capable of much better localisation still.

Keywords

instrumentation: interferometersintergalactic mediumsurveys
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 322 - 323
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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