Speaker: Xuefeng Wu, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Abstract：

 

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense millisecond radio transients whose physical origins are unknown. In this talk, I will review the progress of observational and theoretical studies on FRBs, and try to show the charm of FRBs. Then I will present our recent works in the field of FRBs, including discovering a new FRB (FRB 010312) in the data sets containing the Lorimer burst, proposing a model that the coalescence of primordial black hole binaries can emit GHz radio transients if at least one black hole holds an amount of net electric charge, and investigating the applications of FRBs in multi-messenger cosmology and fundamental physics.