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Astronomy Colloquium - Duncan Lorimer

Artistic galaxy with equations
November 14, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 & Zoom

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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