Prospects for the detection of fast radio bursts with the Murchison Widefield Array

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short timescale («1 s) astrophysical radio signals, presumed to be a signature of cataclysmic events of extragalactic origin. The discovery of six high-redshift events at ~1400 MHz from the Parkes radio telescope suggests that FRBs may occur at a high rate across the sky...

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Main Authors: Trott, Cathryn, Tingay, Steven, Wayth, Randall
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25316