ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Unraveling the nature of fast radio bursts through a multifaceted look at their local environments
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous impulses of radio waves, lasting only a fraction of a second, and observable over extragalactic distances. I have been a core member of the CHIME/FRB experiment that has revolutionized the field by having so far detected 5,000+ FRBs (~90% of all known FRBs), over fifty repeating FRB sources and an FRB from a previously known object: an extremely magnetized stellar remnant called a magnetar. I established observed differences in the “fingerprints” of bursts from repeating sources and apparent non-repeaters, which hints at the two classes coming from different source types and/or physical processes. I furthermore detected the lowest-frequency FRBs using…
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