Looking for Fast Radio Bursts under 100 MHz with the Long Wavelength Array

POSTER

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.

Publication: (in prep) Study of Fast Radio Bursts below 100 MHz with the LWA.

Presenters

  • Stephanie Hansen

    University of New Mexico

Authors

  • Stephanie Hansen

    University of New Mexico

  • Jayce Dowell

    University of New Mexico

  • Greg B Taylor

    University of New Mexico, UNM