Commissioning of ALFABURST: initial tests and results
Abstract
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are apparently one-time, relatively bright radio pulses that have been observed in recent years. The origin of FRBs is currently unknown and many instruments are being built to detect more of these bursts to better characterize their physical properties and identify the source population. ALFABURST is one such instrument. ALFABURST takes advantage of the 7-beam Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA) receiver on the 305-m Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico, to detect FRBs in real-time at L-band (1.4 GHz). We present the results of recent on-sky tests and observations undertaken during the commissioning phase of the instrument. ALFABURST is now available for commensal observations with other ALFA projects.
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@article{arxiv.1602.04389,
title = {Commissioning of ALFABURST: initial tests and results},
author = {Kaustubh Rajwade and Jayanth Chennamangalam and Duncan Lorimer and Aris Karastergiou and Dan Werthimer and Andrew Siemion and David MacMahon and Jeff Cobb and Christopher Williams and Wes Armour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04389},
year = {2016}
}
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3 pages, 2 figures, To be published in Proceedings of the Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Massimo Bianchi, Robert T Jantzen, Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2016