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Dr. Laura Spitler, Lecture, Fast Radio Burst 2024 conference, Khao LaK-Pang Nga, Tailand
Many observational properties of fast radio bursts, such as their duration, energy distribution, and polarization, are now routinely studied. What is less well studied are the spectra of fast radio bursts. Thanks to the new, wide-band receiver on the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope that observes from 1.3-6 GHz, we can now begin to investigate the spectra of repeating FRBs over a larger instantaneous bandwidth than ever before. In this talk I show initial results from our monitoring of small samples of sources. We find that the wider bandwidth increases the chances of the detection and that detections at higher frequencies are more common than expected.
