The Lowest-frequency Fast Radio Bursts: Sardinia Radio Telescope Detection of the Periodic FRB 180916 at 328 MHz

Radio Frequency Interference and Detection of Fast Radio Transients

Exploring the transient radio sky is one of the major science drivers for several upcoming and planned radio telescopes, including the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). The detection of transient signals, particularly of relatively short durations, can however be considerably hampered by the prevalent and ever growing problem of radio frequency interference (RFI) in radio astronomy. With the goal o...

LOFAR, a new low frequency radio telescope

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting of approximately 100 soccer-field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate at frequencies from ∼ 10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution at 240 MHz of better than an arcsecond. Its superb sensitivity will allow for studies of a broad range of astrophysical topics, including reionisation, tra...

On Associating Fast Radio Bursts with Afterglows

A radio source that faded over 6 days, with a redshift z ≈ 0.5 host, has been identified by Keane et al. (2016) as the transient afterglow to a Fast Radio Burst (FRB 150418). We report followup radio and optical observations of the afterglow candidate, and find a source that is consistent with an active galactic nucleus (AGN). If the afterglow-candidate is nonetheless a prototypical FRB aftergl...

Physical Constraints on Fast Radio Bursts

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are isolated, ms radio pulses with dispersion measure (DM) of order 10 pc cm. Galactic candidates for the DM of high latitude bursts detected at GHz frequencies are easily dismissed. DM from bursts emitted in stellar coronas are limited by free-free absorption and those from HII regions are bounded by the nondetection of associated free-free emission at radio wavelength...

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