Cosmology Using the Fast Radio Bursts with the BURSTT

📖 Project Description

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious cosmic enigmas: millisecond flashes of radio waves, as bright as our Sun but lasting thousands of times shorter, hailing from across the universe. These fleeting blasts happen thousands of times every day but yet remain unexplained. Our team is building a new radio telescope dedicated to FRBs in Taiwan. This BURSTT telescope is expected to revolutionize the field in the following two aspects: (1) BURSTT will locate all the FRB positions accurately. Positional uncertainty was one of the biggest obstacles with previous telescopes. (2) BURSTT will distinguish all repeating FRBs and one-time FRBs, whose physical origins are most likely different. Heterogeneous samples were another major problem in previous studies. The BURSTT telescope will start detecting FRBs this year. I am seeking enthusiastic students who analyse and make a breakthrough discovery with the new BURSTT data.