Science Priorities for a European Wide-Field Radio Interferometer

Session

Fast Radio Bursts

27 Oct 2023, 13:30

Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas

11. ARGOS as part of a wide-field VLBI array

Jason Hessels (University of Amsterdam & ASTRON)

27/10/2023, 13:30

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The science of radio astronomy is driven, to a large extent, by expanding the range of timescales, frequencies, field-of-view, and angular resolution we can achieve. Many serendipitous discoveries have been made by pushing the boundaries of what we can observe; pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs) are both seminal examples. So why not push to have it all? Here I will discuss the case for...

5. Strongly lensed fast radio bursts with upcoming telescopes

Daniele Michilli (MIT)

27/10/2023, 14:00

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The delay between multiple images of a strongly lensed fast radio burst (sl-FRB) can be used to measure cosmological parameters such as the Hubble constant and the Universe's shape with high precision, other than obtaining important information on the lens galaxy. However, detecting sl-FRBs is challenging because their fraction is low and decreases quickly at low redshifts. Moreover, it...