E.T. Gets A Callback

Orson Welles would be stoked.

Here’s a link to the abstract.

The GMRT began observing the FRB field as a ToO (proposal DDT B124) 2 d after the event at 610 MHz at 01:30 UT on May 16. The 3-h observation (including overheads and calibrators) produced an image of the field with 123 μJy rms.

via A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up.