Fast Radio Transients: From Pulsars to Fast Radio Bursts: Invited talk. Issue Volume 14:Issue S339(2018) (November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stappers, B. W.; Caleb, M.; Driessen, L. N.
• Editors: Griffin, E.
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. Volume 14:Issue S339(2018)
• Page Start: 27
• Page End: 32
• Publication Date: 2017-11
• Subjects: Stars: neutron, -- black hole physics, -- telescopes; Astronomy -- Congresses; Astronomy -- Periodicals; 520
• DOI: 10.1017/S1743921318002156
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-9213

Abstract

Abstract: The radio sky is full of transients, their time-scales ranging from nanoseconds to decades. Recent developments in technology sensitivity and computing capabilities have opened up the short end of that range, and are revealing a plethora of new phenomenologies. Studies of radio transients were previously restricted to analyses of archived data, but are now including real-time analyses. We focus here on Fast Radio Bursts, discuss and compare the properties of the population, and describe what is to date the only known repeating Fast Radio Burst and its host galaxy. We also review what will be possible with the new instrumentation coming online.