Artist’s impression of a fast radio burst traveling through space and reaching Earth. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
The Maria Mitchell Observatory is part of the Fast and Fortunate for FRB Follow-up (F4) collaboration, consisting of students, post-docs, and faculty from around the world, and whose mission is to perform multi-wavelength follow-up studies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and their host galaxies. The scientific goals of the F4 collaboration include:
- Disentangling the cosmic web through FRB dispersion measures correlated with foreground galaxies and their halos.
- Constraining FRB progenitor(s) through population studies of their host galaxies.
- Constraining the physical properties of halo gas, e.g. magnetic field, density.
The F4 collaboration is generously funded by the National Science Foundation under awards AST-1911140 and AST-1910471.
Learn More
If you’d like to learn more about the Fast Radio Burst research currently conducted at the MMO, here is a recently recorded public talk given by previous MMO Research Fellow, Jay Chittidi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns13UFHulFY
Questions? Looking to get involved?
Please direct any questions to Dr. Regina Jorgenson, MMO Director at rjorgenson@mariamitchell.org.
If you are interested in applying for the MMO Research Fellowship, please see: https://www.mariamitchell.org/research-and-collections/astronomy/research/fast-radio-burst-follow-up-research-fellow-job-ad