Astronomy Colloquium - Duncan Lorimer

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November 14, 2024
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 & Zoom

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2024-11-14 15:00:00 2024-11-14 16:00:00 Astronomy Colloquium - Duncan Lorimer Title: Fast Radio Bursts - A Cosmic Detective StoryAbstract:Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration pulses of cosmological origin that were discovered at West Virginia University in 2007. They show amazing promise as probes of the large-scale structure of the Universe and provide a new window into the population of compact objects at vast distances. Although much of the details as to their origins remain mysterious, in this talk I will give an account of their discovery and what we have learned in the past seventeen years.Speaker:Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia University) Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 & Zoom America/New_York public

Title: Fast Radio Bursts - A Cosmic Detective Story

Abstract:

Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration pulses of cosmological origin that were discovered at West Virginia University in 2007. They show amazing promise as probes of the large-scale structure of the Universe and provide a new window into the population of compact objects at vast distances. Although much of the details as to their origins remain mysterious, in this talk I will give an account of their discovery and what we have learned in the past seventeen years.

Speaker:

Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia University)

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