On the paucity of fast radio bursts at low Galactic latitudes

We examine the effect of Galactic diffractive interstellar scintillation as a means of explaining the reported deficit of fast radio burst (FRB) detections at low Galactic latitude. We model the unknown underlying FRB flux density distribution as a power law with a rate scaling as S−5/2+δν and accou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Macquart, Jean-Pierre, Johnston, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32469