Looking for Fast Radio Bursts under 100 MHz with the Long Wavelength Array
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Abstract
Since their discovery in 2007, much effort has been devoted to uncovering both the sources of the extragalactic, millisecond-duration fast radio bursts (FRBs) and determining the limits on their emission frequencies. As telescopes gain larger fields of view and their instruments become more sensitive, our hunt for these explosive events becomes easier. We observed FRBs at the two Long Wavelength Array stations in New Mexico. The stations were triggered to observe by the CHIME/FRB project to determine if the fast radio bursts would be detectable at frequencies below 100 MHz. Between the two LWA stations we attempted to observe 72 events with no FRB detections.
*Construction of the LWA has been supported by the Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014-07-C-0147 and by the AFOSR. Support for operations and continuing development of the LWA stations is provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the National Science Foundation under grants AST/1835400, and CISE/2103707.
Publication: (in prep) Study of Fast Radio Bursts below 100 MHz with the LWA.
Presenters
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Stephanie Hansen
- University of New Mexico