Speaker
Dr
Stuart Ryder
(Macquarie University)
Description
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-timescale events of cosmological origin, with next to no multi-wavelength counterparts identified. The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients (CRAFT) survey has pioneered the localisation of non-repeating FRBs to ~0.1" astrometric precision. The best optical follow-up imaging of their host galaxies is typically no better than 0.5", hindering our ability to distinguish purported magnetar progenitors to FRBs from the background stellar population. MAVIS will enable us to study the environments and potential origins of FRBs at optical wavelengths with a spatial resolution well-matched to the radio.
Primary author
Dr
Stuart Ryder
(Macquarie University)
Co-authors
Mr
Lachlan Marnoch
(Macquarie University)
Dr
Ryan Shannon
(Swinburne University of Technology)
Dr
Keith Bannister
(CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science)
Prof.
J. Xavier Prochaska
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
