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DTSTART:20160127T223000Z
DTEND:20160127T233000Z
DTSTAMP:20260419T175518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160125T232255Z
LOCATION:5280 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Discovery of a Fast Radio Burst\, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro
 /Cosmo) Forum\, Peter Timbie\, UW - Madison\, Department of Physics
DESCRIPTION:Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short (millisecond)\, non-rep
 eating pulses that have now been observed at radio frequencies by thre
 e different radio telescopes.  First detected a decade ago\, a total o
 f 16 of these events have been seen.  I will report on the recent sere
 ndipitous discovery of an FRB at the Green Bank Telescope during a sea
 rch for large-scale cosmic structure. The source is not resolved but o
 ur measurements of dispersion\,  Faraday rotation\, and scattering alo
 ng the line of sight leads us to conclude that the source is probably 
 extragalactic and is located either in a dense\, magnetized nebula ass
 ociated with the source or a location within the central region of its
  host galaxy. 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3908
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