On the detectability of extragalactic fast radio transients

Recent discoveries of highly dispersed millisecond radio bursts by Thornton et al. in a survey with the Parkes radio telescope at 1.4 GHz point towards an emerging population of sources at cosmological distances whose origin is currently unclear. Here we demonstrate that the scattering effects at lo...

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Main Authors: Lorimer, DR, Karastergiou, A, McLaughlin, M, Johnston, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013