Localization of fast radio bursts in Taiwan 2024

Monday June 24, 2024
Session 1 (Chair: Jiwoo Nam)
10:00~10:10 Opening remarks [Ying-Ren Chien (National Ilan University)]
10:10~10:30 FRB Overview [Ue-Li Pen (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics/ASIAA)]
10:30~11:00 Invited Current Status of BURSTT
Kai-yang Lin (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics/ASIAA)
11:00~11:30 Break
11:30~11:50 Expected science cases with BURSTT
Tetsuya Hashimoto (National Chung Hsing University/NCHU)
11:50~12:10 The design and test results of BURSTT 64-antenna outrigger station in central Taiwan
Shih-Hao Wang (ASIAA & LeCosPA, National Taiwan University)
12:10~12:30 Initial results of the Very Large Baseline Interferometry capabilities of BURSTT
Sridhar Gajendran (National Tsing Hua University/NTHU)
12:30~13:00 Discussion
13:00~15:00 Lunch Break
Session 2 (Chair: Chin-Ping Hu)
15:00~15:30 Invited An overview of the Thai National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Potential collaborations with the BURSTT project
Nobuyuki Sakai (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand)
15:30~16:00 Invited Radio Astronomy and FRB Research in Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Zamri Zainal Abidin (Universiti Malaya)
16:00~16:20 Investigating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) environment for a new BURSTT outrigger Station at Ogasawara Island
Hiroto Masaoka (Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, University of Tokyo & National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/NAOJ)
16:20~16:40 Implementation of Very Large Baseline Interferometry with Outrigger station at RRI, India
Somnath Dutta (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics/ASIAA)
16:40~17:00 Discussion
17:00~18:00 Welcome reception
Tuesday June 25, 2024
09:00~14:00 Excursion to BURSTT main station (Fushan Botanical Garden)
Session 3 (Chair: Shotaro Yamasaki)
14:00~14:30 Poster flash talk (2 mins each)
14:30~15:10 Break
15:10~15:40 Invited NICER X-ray studies of the magnetar-FRB connections
Teruaki Enoto (Kyoto University & RIKEN)
15:40~16:00 Rapid Spin Changes Around a Magnetar Fast Radio Burst
Chin-Ping HU (National Changhua University of Education)
16:00~16:30 Invited Aftershock properties of repeating FRBs and magnetars, in comparison with earthquakes
Tomonori Totani (Dept. Astronomy, Univ. of Tokyo)
16:30~17:00 Discussion
Wednesday June 26, 2024
Session 4 (Chair: Ue-Li Pen)
10:00~10:30 Invited Current status of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave observations
Soichiro Morisaki (Institute for Cosmic-Ray Research/ICRR, University of Tokyo)
10:30~10:50 Milliarcsecond localisations of FRBs -- what have we learned?
Franz Kirsten (Chalmers University of Technology)
10:50~11:10 Wideband detection of FRB 20240114A with the Allen Telescope Array
Param Joshi (SETI Institute, USA and NIT Rourkela, India)
11:10~11:30 Break
11:30~11:50 EuroFlash: a commensal search for fast transients < 300 MHz with LOFAR 2.0
Ziggy Pleunis (University of Amsterdam and ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)
11:50~12:10 The SPOTLIGHT Project: A Commensal Survey for FRBs with the GMRT
Ujjwal Panda (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics)
12:10~12:30 The true fraction of repeating fast radio bursts revealed by CHIME
Shotaro Yamasaki (National Chung Hsing University/NCHU)
12:30~13:00 Discussion
13:00~15:00 Lunch
Session 5 (Chair: Tomo Goto)
15:00~15:30 Invited Probing the Circumgalactic Medium with Localized Fast Radio Bursts
Ting-Wen Lan (National Taiwan University/NTU)
15:30~15:50 Studying the Cosmic Baryon Distribution with FRB Foreground Mapping
Khee-Gan Lee (Kavli IPMU)
15:50~16:10 Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear: Significant Host Galaxy Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts in the FIRE Zoom-in Simulations
Matt Orr (Flatiron Institute/Center for Computational Astrophysics)
16:10~16:30 Probing the intracluster medium with fast radio bursts
Alvina On (National Center for Theoretical Sciences/NCTS)
16:30~17:00 Discussion
18:00~20:00 Banquet (玉連食府 https://maps.app.goo.gl/5yJQg47523jc9S1A6)
Thursday June 27, 2024
Session 6 (Chair: Sujin Eie)
10:00~10:20 ASIAA FRB Activities in Hawaii
Geoffrey Bower (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics/ASIAA)
10:20~10:40 FRB scintillation and H0
Daniel Baker (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics/ASIAA)
10:40~11:00 Constraining the Hubble Constant with Scattering in Host Galaxies of Fast Radio Bursts
Tsung-Ching Yang (National Chung Hsing University/NCHU)
11:00~11:30 Break
11:30~11:50 Decoding the cosmological baryonic fluctuation by localized fast radio bursts
Tzu-Yin Hsu (National Tsing Hua University/NTHU)
11:50~12:10 The localisation of pulsars with the GMRT
Shyam Sunder (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics/ASIAA)
12:10~12:40 Discussion
12:40~13:00 Award ceremony and concluding remarks [Tetsuya Hashimoto (NCHU)]