Anastasia Fialkov - Lecture "Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)" (English Version)

Public lectures of "Traektoria" Foundation For Scientific, Educational And Cultiral Initiatives Support. July 4 2019 / Moscow, Moscow Planetarium Anastasia Fialkov, Senior Research Fellow at Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge. Abstract: This lecture is about Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Recently discovered in archival pulsar survey data (Lorimer et al. 2007), FRBs are a new astrophysical phenomenon of unknown origin. FRBs are short (few milliseconds) and highly energetic bursts of radio waves. From the few published events we estimate that FRBs occur roughly 1000 times per sky per day. Properties of the observed events indicate that they are extra-galactic in origin, and, possibly, originate at large cosmological distances. However, the nature of these bursts remains a mystery. Support the "Traektoria" Foundation activity: https://nuzhnapomosh.ru/funds/traektoriya/ Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/traektoriafdn VK: https://vk.com/traektoriafdn