| Abstract: |
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is one of the leading fast radio burst (FRB) detection and localisation telescopes. On behalf of Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients (CRAFT) Survey team I will present an update on work from the past year. Localisations of FRBs to their host galaxies with <1 arcsecond precision have been steadily increasing, which has been combined with dedicated optical imaging and spectroscopic follow-up primarily on the ESO VLT. These new FRB localisations, together with previous CRAFT localisations, have been combined with analysis of the high time resolution (3 ns) polarization data, and the commensal detection of neutral hydrogen gas in an FRB host galaxy from the WALLABY HI emission survey project. CRAFT have also made the first localisation of an FRB to a host galaxy at z >1. I will also describe the new CRAFT coherent upgrade (CRACO), which is currently being commissioned. This upgrade will form and search over 20 trillion effective pixels per second, equivalent to almost 1 million uncompressed YouTube videos, and increase our FRB localisation rate to ~1 every two days. |
