Fabian's Astrophysics Website

Today I switched the website to HTTPS secured access by default. The main benefit for the visitors is that the data transmission in now authenticated, as well as encrypted.

Here is my contribution to the Early Career Researcher poster exhibition of the Royal Astronomical Society about our “Searches for Fast Radio Bursts with the MeerKAT telescopes”.

I had to summarise and abstract our work quite drastically, and I tried to use non-technical language as far as possible so that …

I am part of a collaborative paper in which we report on the timing and spectral properties of the new magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607 in the first month or so after it became visible at radio frequencies.

The observations were performed with the 100-m Effelsberg telescope in Germany, telescopes at …

Today I gave a short public talk about my research at Jodrell Bank Observatory as part of the ‘Meet the Expert’ session. After the presentation, there were about 30 minutes of questions where people could ask me anything related to astronomy, astrophysics or physics in general (this is a somewhat …

Late last year, I released the high-level observing software used for the UTMOST pulsar timing programme I paper through the Astrophysics Source Code Library. It contains monitoring and scheduling tools that we developed as part of the UTMOST project for the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST), including the fully-autonomous dynamic …

Today I participated in the 2019 machine learning hack night at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. A completely unknown machine learning and data analysis challenge was presented, together with previously unknown Python tools that were useful for analysing the data. This year’s challenge was …

Before the bustle leading up to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, my UTMOST pulsar timing programme paper got accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The publication can be accessed online via the Astrophysics Data System. In that paper, we report updated …

A collaborative paper (Meyers et al.) reporting on the spectral properties of the highly intermittent pulsar J1107-5907 at radio frequencies has recently been accepted for publication.

The publication presents the analysis of simultaneous radio observations of the pulsar with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and the refurbished Molonglo Synthesis Radio …

We have discovered two fast radio bursts (FRBs) in short succession as part of the ongoing search programme at the Molonglo Observatory Radio Telescope. They are FRB181016 and FRB181017, respectively. We summarise their detection UTCs, their right-ascensions, their declinations (J2000) and the dispersion measures (DMs) that maximise the signal-to-noise ratios …

We have detected a fast radio burst (FRB) as part of the SUPERB project at the Parkes radio telescope. It was discovered on 2018-09-23-04:03:38.06 UTC in the central beam (beam 1) of the 1.4 GHz multi-beam receiver. The FRB has a dispersion measure of 548 pc …

We have detected another pulsar glitch at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Radio Telescope in Australia, where we are observing more than 400 radio pulsars regularly, mainly with very high cadence. This one happened in the pulsar J1709-4429 and is by far the smallest one ever reported in this pulsar. The …

We have detected a new Fast Radio Burst (FRB) in real time at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Radio Telescope in Australia. In total, that makes it the 6th FRB discovered as part of the UTMOST project. We encourage follow-up observations at all wavelengths. The relevant details can be found in …

We have followed up the very bright fast radio burst FRB180309 with the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory. The radio observations started less than 7 hours after the event. We also reanalysed 4 hours of archival data of the field in which the burst was reported, taken between 2013 …

In a recently published paper we have systematically investigated the radio spectral energy distributions of 441 radio pulsars, observed with the Parkes telescope in Australia. The publication can be accessed online via the Astrophysics Data System. This work is significant, because it considers about one fifth of the currently known …

We crossed the 10,000 pulsar observations mark using the tied-array beam with the UTMOST system at the refurbished Molonglo radio telescope last night. This is a big milestone for the pulsar timing project.

Hurray!

I just launched the new website that is based on Pelican, which is a python-based static website generator.

Enjoy!