| Description: | ASTRON/JIVE Summer Student Maxwell A. Fine spent his internship developing the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope (DRT) as a capable fast radio burst (FRB) observatory. He did this in collaboration with CAMRAS, and spent many days and nights working from the DRT control room. Max was supervised by Tammo Jan Dijkema and Jason Hessels, and also learned from others like Paul Boven.
The FRB shown here was detected on August 15th by DRT, and simultaneously detected by ASTRON PhD student Omar Ould-Boukattine using Westerbork RT1. Locally generated radio frequency interference (RFI) remains a challenge, but DRT has the potential to be useful for FRB science. We'll be using these data to support an upcoming publication. |
