Episode 45 - Fast Radio Bursts - O to have breath to say what is like thee!

Recorded: 4 March 2016
Released: 5 March 2016
Duration: 94 minutes, 14 seconds

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Parkes Observatory

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Adam Smith, James Garrison, Marsha Barnhart, and Nick
Nielsen, to talk about the flurry of news over Fast Radio Bursts. What are the facts, and how has the Mainstream Media got it wrong?

Links

Lorimer, et. al. A Bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin

locations for the repeating burst

E. Petroff, et. al., A real-time Fast Radio Burst: polarization detection and multi-wavelength follow-up.
Hippke, et. al., Discrete Steps in Dispersions Measures of Fast Radio Bursts
E. Petroff, et. al., Identifying the source of preteens at the Parkes radio observatory
Keane, e.t. al., A Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxy
P. Williams, et. al., Cosmological Origin for FRB 150418? Not so fast.
Radio Brightening of FRB 1501418 Host Galaxy Candidate

Hessels, et. al., A Repeating Fast Radio Burst

FRBs.txt
Ravi, et. al., A Fast Radio Burst in the Direction of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy.
S. Burke-Spolaor and K. Bannister, The galactic position dependence of Fast Radio Bursts and the discovery of FRB 011025.
Luan and Goldreich, Physical Constraints on Fast Radio Burst
Petroff, et. al., A survey of FRB Fields: Limits on Repeatability

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Credits:

Host and producer: Paul Carr
Panelists: Adam Smith, James Garrison, Marsha Barnhart, Nick Nielsen
Music DJ Spooky

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