Unlocking the Radio Sky - mapping transients and cosmic structure with novel digital telescopes

Matt Dobbs
McGill University Physics and CIfAR Senior Fellow

Abstract

Technology advances have opened a new era of radio observations. We are now monitoring the sky at millisecond cadence and discovering a vast catalog of new fast radio transients while simultaneously making deep maps of structure in the universe using hydrogen intensity mapping as a tracer. While these fields are still in their infancy, early results are rolling out, fuelling discovery and motivating the design for new instruments.