Speaker
Description
Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-long, bright (typically 1-100 Jy) radio flashes of (mostly) cosmological origin (up to z ~ 2.1!). At the time of writing, close to a thousand events have been published, with a large range of properties in terms of fluences, spectra, time smearing and characteristics of the host galaxies - when localized. Their origin remains indeed largely debated, although an unmistakable connection between magnetars and (some) FRBs has been established recently. In the future, the SKA will provide observability over two frequency decades with simultaneous, superb localization, i.e. FRB cosmology.
In this talk I will review the Northern Cross FRB project, the ongoing effort to equip and use the Northern Cross (NC), the oldest Italian radio telescope, to observe FRBs. I will present the project's main results, highlighting the studies on known FRB repeaters and the population studies within our Galaxy and in a sample of star-forming nearby galaxies. Finally I will describe the future path, including the equipment of the 64 cylinders of the North-South arm and the upgrade of the East-West arm, which will lead to a low frequency telescope similar to CHIME and, therefore, an effective FRB survey machine that will be able to give our community a leading role in the SKA era.
| Topics | Transients & GW follow-up |
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