SHAO Astrophysics Colloquia

New developments of Fast Radio Bursts

Speaker: Ue-Li Pen (CITA)

Time: Thursday, 10:00am, Dec. 31, 2015

Location: Lecture Hall, 3rd floor

Fast Radio Bursts are mysterious millisecond radio bursts that go off thousands of times a day.  Their nature and location have initially been mysterious.  I report on recent observational and theoretical developments which has narrowed the candidate zoo, including a recent detection of scintillation and rotation measure with the Green Bank Telescope.  The future is bright, with thousands of expected detections in CHIME, and locations with VLBI.  I speculate on future scientific applications.