Here's a neat simulation by David Saroff of what an all-sky monitor for Fast Radio Bursts might sound like. The first 30-40 seconds set the scene with background noise from the Parkes telescope. After that, FRBs begin to rain down - about 30 of them during the 5 minute "observation". You can hear different intensities (volumes) and different dispersions (chirp lengths) of the FRBs as they sweep through the frequencies of the radio telescope. Here, the sky frequencies of 1.4 GHz have been converted to audible frequencies for your delectation :) The simulated bursts themselves come from work being carried out by my graduate student Akshaya Rane and represent bursts originating from cosmological distances. Their origin is still unkown!

Fast Radio Bursts

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Fast Radio Bursts

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