Speaker
Killian Long
(University College Cork)
Description
The origin of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is still mysterious. All FRBs to date show extremely high brightness temperatures, requiring a coherent emission mechanism. Using constraints derived from the physics of one of these mechanisms, the synchrotron maser, as well as observations, we show that accretion induced explosions of neutron stars with surface magnetic fields of $B_*$<$10^{11}$ G are favoured as FRB progenitors.
Primary authors
Killian Long
(University College Cork)
Asaf Pe'er
(Bar Ilan University, Israel)
