Fast and Fortunate for FRB Follow-up (F4)

Our Science:

• Disentangling the cosmic web through FRB dispersion measures correlated with foreground galaxies and their halos.

• Constraining FRB progenitor(s) through population studies of their host galaxies.

• Constraining the physical properties of halo gas, e.g. magnetic field, density.

Our Mission:

Follow-up fast radio bursts (FRBs) and their host galaxies (HGs) at all wave-bands except radio.

Our Team:

Our team is a collection of students, postdocs and faculty from across the world.  

We also partner with FRB collaborations on the majority of premier facilities pursuing FRBs. Our liaisons for each of the collaborations and their contact information are listed below.

CRAFT: Alexa Gordon (alexagordon2026@u.northwestern.edu)
MeerTRAP: Nicolas Tejos (nicolas.tejos@pucv.cl)
AstroFLASH: Wen-fai Fong (wfong@northwestern.edu)
CHIME: Tarraneh Eftekhari (teftekhari@northwestern.edu)

Our Facilities:

F4 has obtained data (or has data pending) on the following facilities:

• W.M. Keck Observatory

• Gemini Observatory

• Magellan Observatory

• ESO/VLT

• Hubble Space Telescope

• ALMA

• Chandra X-ray Observatory

• Very Large Array

Our Sponsors:

F4 is funded by the National Science Foundation (AST-1911140).

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