| 17th of January 2015 |
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| 2014 Science Highlights |
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The Galactic
Position Dependence of Fast Radio Bursts and the Discovery of FRB 011025 |
| Burke-Spolaor & Bannister (2014) report the
detection of a dispersed fast radio burst (FRB) in archival
intermediate-latitude Parkes Radio Telescope data. The burst appears to be
of the same physical origin as the four purported extragalactic FRBs reported
by Thornton et al. They consider that this survey, and many other archival
low-latitude pulsar surveys, have been searched for FRBs but produced fewer
detections than the comparatively brief Thornton etal. search. Such a rate
dependence on Galactic position could provide critical supporting evidence
for an extragalactic origin for FRBs. |