Refurbishing a Radio Telescope: Fast Radio Burst Edition
What does it take to upgrade an existing radio telescope to survey fast radio bursts?
More Clues to the Environment in Which FRBs Originate?
The world of FRB science is filled with more questions than answers right now. Has a new discovery finally hinted toward the answer to one of our major questions?
Astrobites at AAS 235: Day 2
We report on Day 2 of the winter AAS meeting in Honolulu, HI.
A Second Mysterious Radio Outburst from Magnetar XTE J1810-197
Why is one magnetar giving off bursts of energetic radio waves? Is it related to giant pulses? FRBs? Both?
New Cosmological Detectives: Using FRBs to Constrain the Diffuse Gas Fraction
With an ideal dataset of many localized FRBs, how can the diffuse gas fraction in the IGM be constrained?
Localization of a Single Fast Radio Burst to a Massive Early-Type Spiral Galaxy
Previously it was revealed that FRBs may be coming from dwarf galaxies, but a new study by an Australian team reveals that they may originate from different places.