Inferring the Energy and Distance Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts Using the First CHIME/FRB Catalog
Inferring the Energy and Distance Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts Using the First CHIME/FRB Catalog
Abstract Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, energetic, typically extragalactic flashes of radio emission whose progenitors are largely unknown. Although studying the FRB population is essential for understanding how these astrophysical phenomena occur, such studies have been difficult to conduct without large numbers of FRBs and characterizable observational biases. Using …