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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Amiri, M.
• Bandura, K.
• Berger, P.
• Bhardwaj, M.
• Boyce, M. M.
• Boyle, P. J.
• Brar, C.
• Burhanpurkar, M.
• Chawla, P.
• Chowdhury, J.
• Cliche, J.-F.
• Cranmer, M. D.
• Cubranic, D.
• Deng, M.
• Denman, N.
• Dobbs, M.
• Fandino, M.
• Fonseca, E.
• Gaensler, B. M.
• Giri, U.
• Gilbert, A. J.
• Good, D. C.
• Guliani, S.
• Halpern, M.
• Hinshaw, G.
• Höfer, C.
• Josephy, A.
• Kaspi, V. M.
• Landecker, T. L.
• Lang, D.
• Liao, H.
• Masui, K. W.
• Mena-Parra, J.
• Naidu, A.
• Newburgh, L. B.
• Ng, C.
• Patel, C.
• Pen, U.-L.
• Pinsonneault-Marotte, T.
• Pleunis, Z.
• Ravandi, M. Rafiei
• Ransom, S. M.
• Renard, A.
• Scholz, P.
• Sigurdson, K.
• Siegel, S. R.
• Smith, K. M.
• Stairs, I. H.
• Tendulkar, S. P.
• Vanderlinde, K.
• Wiebe, D. V.

Titel

The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project: System Overview

Ist Teil von

• The Astrophysical journal, 2018-08, Vol.863 (1), p.48

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: The American Astronomical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a novel transit radio telescope operating across the 400-800 MHz band. CHIME is composed of four 20 m × 100 m semicylindrical paraboloid reflectors, each of which has 256 dual-polarization feeds suspended along its axis, giving it a 200 deg2 field of view. This, combined with wide bandwidth, high sensitivity, and a powerful correlator, makes CHIME an excellent instrument for the detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs). The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB) will search beam-formed, high time and frequency resolution data in real time for FRBs in the CHIME field of view. Here we describe the CHIME/FRB back end, including the real-time FRB search and detection software pipeline, as well as the planned offline analyses. We estimate a CHIME/FRB detection rate of 2-42 FRBs sky-1 day-1 normalizing to the rate estimated at 1.4 GHz by Vander Wiel et al. Likely science outcomes of CHIME/FRB are also discussed. CHIME/FRB is currently operational in a commissioning phase, with science operations expected to commence in the latter half of 2018.