Oral Presentation

The connection between Fast Radio Bursts and Crab pulsar’s giant pulses

Author(s): H.-H. Lin (ASIAA, CITA), A. Bij (CITA), P. Thulasiram (CITA), D.Z. Li (Caltech), M. H. van Kerkwijk (DAA, UToronto),U.-L. Pen (ASIAA, CITA),W. Lu (Caltech), R. Main (MPIFR),J. B. Peterson (CMU), B. Quine (Thoth, York), K. Vanderlinde (DAA, Dunlap)

Presenter: HSIU-HSIEN Lin (ASIAA/ CITA)

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are the brightest (Tb ~10**37 K, which is higher than the Planck temperature) radio transients (~1 ms) in the Universe with unknown origin. Such bright point sources with coherent emission can be used to probe space-time at the source and along the path through the gravitational and plasma lensing.

In this talk, I will discuss a direct measurement of the Lorentz factor in the giant pulse of the Crab pulsar and the implication for FRBs’ energies. In addition, I will discuss the connection between the narrow-band giant pulses and repeating FRBs.