Fast Radio Bursts. One Step Closer to The Answer?

What are Fast Radio Bursts? Did we get a step closer to answering this question by associating some of them with a Kilonova event? What Cosmology questions can we solve by studying FRBs? Discussing all these things with Dr Clancy James from Curtin University.

🦄 Support us on Patreon:

00:00 Intro
01:41 Second Kilonova event
03:37 FRB connection to neutron star collisions
13:13 Mechanism behind Fast Radio Bursts
23:12 How to observe and study FRBs
29:12 Repeating FRBs
32:30 How FRBs are useful for Cosmology
38:10 When will we solve FRBs

📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER
Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.

🎧 PODCASTS

🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA

📩 CONTACT FRASER

⚖️ LICENSE
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

[JohnDunne]

“Don’t worry, my audience will find it cool” - darn right we found it cool!! That’s why we’re here ❤ another great interview - thanks a million!!

[Flowmystic]

All these interviews are most delightful throughout the weeks.

[oopskapootz]

This explanation of FRBs is really satisfying. I hope it’s confirmed. Great interview, Fraser!

[ricksspeedshop]

Knocked it out of the park again, sir! Fantastic interview. I always gain some knowledge from your interviews, thank you.

[tankourito]

This year is turning out to be a really fun year for space. This month especially.

[Ava]

So FRBs solved before Fusion... good interview thanks

[APTUE]

Great interview, learned a lot about neutron stars

[-MaXuS-]

I can’t even properly convey how much I appreciate your unrelenting sharing content that pretty much every time captivates me. Many, mucho, jättemånga thanks 🙏😌

[SylverTalon]

you and a bunch of other space nerds are my favorite peope to fall asleep to. you guys have such nice voices to fall asleep to and are so nice to listen to.

[BabyMakR]

Props for the Raj poster on the cupboard door. 😆

[TheyCallMeNewb]

Well, the next time in which FRB's are Petrov's story of the day is never far away. Strong material in this one today!

[miinyoo]

Square Kilometer Array will be super useful in studying these.

[mimetype]

(F)ast
(A)astronomical
(R)adio
(T)ransmissions

[DexLuther]

11:02 The question Fraser _actually_ wanted to ask is "What percentage of FRB do you think are signs of aliens doing something?"

[stevenewtube]

Absolutely loved the interview. Just thinking, hypothetically, is the disturbance of intense magnetic fields the cause of FRB’s? Could this be an engine?

[farrenn]

Just a suggestion - It may help to encourage interview guests to use a microphone or purchase a cheap one. It's difficult to follow many of your brilliant guests because their audio is so rough.

[StephenGillie]

Having listened to FRBs and worked as a community contributor detecting noise in LIGO, the FRB sound definitely has the same quickly-rising tone as a neutron star merger. Hadn't thought of it before, but very probable.

[michaelconnaireoates]

I imagine having 4 telescopes that sit still for frbs would work quite well, just areas super quiet in the 4 corners of the globe just monitoring all around

[BabyMakR]

What about a cloud of satellites, like StarLink but above Geostationary altitude but just listening for FRBs and the like?

[ticthak]

We've all missed the point.
FRBs are the triggers and the repeaters are the track sync for the music of the spheres.