A busy September meeting. First up is our monthly presentation followed by our AGM. Members of the public can attend our meetings once at no costs and are then encouraged to join.

Paid members have received AGM details via email. Our AGM will be at 8pm.

We are very pleased to have Dr Amanda M. Cook from McGill University present remotely to us via ZOOM.

Presentation : ‘Uncovering the Cosmic Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME’

Brief :-

Fast radio bursts (FRB) are millisecond duration radio signals coming from galaxies beyond our own. Astronomers do not currently know what is producing them. In this talk, I’ll introduce the history of FRBs and how the Penticton-based Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) became the number one FRB discovery machine, finding ten times more FRB sources than all other telescopes combined. I’ll discuss what we learned from 5000 FRBs: the rare gems we’ve found and from the population as a whole. I’ll conclude by motivating the precision-localization era of FRBs we are now entering and present the first result from our newly commissioned CHIME ‘Outrigger’ array.