Abstract

Invited Talk - Plenary

Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:00   (Aula 1&2 / virtual plenum)

Testing the connection between fast radio bursts and neutron stars

Laura Spitler
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still an open question, but multiple lines of evidence point toward neutron stars, and more specifically magnetars, as the burst engine. For example, several radio bursts were detected from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 with luminosities comparable to the FRB population, and the diverse and temporally variable polarization properties within the known population of FRBs is rather "pulsar-like". Progress can be made by expanding two areas of experimental parameter space: observing frequency and field of view. In this talk I will present recent results from observations of repeating FRBs using a new, wideband (1.3 - 6 GHz) receiver recently commissioned on the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope. Then I will introduce BURSTT, a large field of view telescope that is ideally suited for multi-messenger studies of FRBs.