Speaker
Victoria Kaspi
(McGill University)
Description
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are few-millisecond bursts of radio waves coming from far outside the Milky Way. Some repeat. Their origin is presently unknown as is whether they represent a single class of object or multiple classes. Recently there has been tremendous observational progress on understanding FRBs thanks to a variety of new instruments designed for their study. In this talk I review what is known about FRB observational properties, including population property distributions of both repeaters and apparent non-repeaters, as well as what is known about their host galaxies and environments.
Primary author
Victoria Kaspi
(McGill University)
