Astrophysics Colloquium

Date:
Mar
25
2025

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

Learnings about, and from, fast radio bursts
Vikram Ravi
11:00am|Peyton Hall, Auditorium, Princeton University

The origins of the millisecond-duration, energetic (>10^39 erg) fast radio bursts (FRBs) at extragalactic distances remain shrouded in mystery. Although FRBs are likely associated with neutron stars, they appear to occur in a remarkable diversity of...