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[Interview] Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts. One Step Closer to The Answer?

[Interview] Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts. One Step Closer to The Answer?

Published 3 years, 3 months ago
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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.

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  • 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

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