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CHARBONNEAU – Canada leads search for fast radio bursts

NESTLED IN THE HILLS above Penticton, an observatory has discovered about 90 per cent of all fast radio bursts. It’s a perfect spot, away from the electrical and radio noise of the valley. I spoke to Dr. Michael Rupen via Zoom about the new antennas being installed at the site. The antennas, six metre dishes, are being made on site using fibreglass mould. They are currently making two dishes a week, eventually producing three every two days. Eventually there will be an array of 512 dishes, making Canada a world leader in the discovery and analysis of fast radio bursts. What are fast radio bursts (FRBs)? Well, they are fast, traveling at the speed of light. They are in the radio spectrum at around one gigahertz (for comparison, microwave ovens operate at 2.45 gigahertz). They are bursts, lasting only a fraction of a second. And they are very powerful. FRBs typically give off as much energy in one second as the sun does in a month. The origin of FRBs was a mystery when first discovered by Prof. Duncan Lorimer in 2007. Since then, FRBs have been identified closer to home in our Milky Way galaxy, explained Dr. Rupen. In [...]

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