MG 17 · 2024
CHIME/FRB Team
The CHIME/FRB collaboration transformed fast radio burst astronomy with large samples, repeaters, and continuous northern-sky monitoring.
2017, Canada
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, British Columbia, Canada
Professor Victoria Kaspi
“For the innovative detection and comprehensive analysis of a large population of fast radio bursts, significantly increasing their statistics, including repeating sources, which have boosted our understanding of their origin and their application in mapping the universe structure and composition.”
MG XVII, Pescara, Italy
Work
Fast radio bursts are millisecond radio flashes whose large samples are needed to identify source populations and cosmological applications.
The CHIME/FRB team built a dedicated survey program around CHIME's wide-field radio design, detecting and analyzing large numbers of FRBs including repeaters.
The collaboration moved FRB science into a high-statistics era and made the bursts useful probes of compact objects and the matter between galaxies.