ASTRON | Making discoveries in radio astronomy happen
AstroFlash is supported by a research group of PhD students and postdocs hosted at ASTRON , JIVE and the University of Amsterdam and built by Jason Hessels. The researchers are experts on both time- and image-domain analyses of radio observations both from single dish and interferometers, from low frequencies to very long baseline interferometry. AstroFlash widely uses the antennas from the European VLBI Network to precisely localize Fast Radio Bursts and study their emission and environments.
This is a NWO Vici grant awarded by Jason Hessels (ASTRON and University of Amsterdam) entitled "AstroFlash: probing the extremes of the Universe at high time and spatial resolution''. The Vici grants provide researchers with 1.5 MEur to explore an innovative research line over the course of 5 years (2020-2025). With the grant, Hessels will build a research group of PhD students and postdocs hosted at ASTRON , JIVE and the University of Amsterdam .
AstroFlash is focused on the precise localization of dozens of repeating Fast Radio Bursts, and thereby come to a deeper understanding of what produces these fascinating astronomical signals. The FRB phenomenon was discovered in 2007. Though the FRBs remain mysterious, astronomers have demonstrated that these millisecond-duration flashes of radio light originate from distant galaxies. Whatever is producing the FRBs is thus exceptionally energetic and unlike anything we have studied before. The FRBs therefor
ASTRON | Making discoveries in radio astronomy happen