Speaker
Maura Pilia
(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)
Description
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 an effective FRB survey machine that will be complement other current facilities in the international panorama.
Author
Maura Pilia
(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)