First slide of Ryan Shannon's talk at the 2025 ASA meeting on Fast Radio Burst detections with ASKAP

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia is being held this week in Adelaide. Naturally, there are number of presentations relating to observations made with ATNF telescopes, and ASKAP in particular. Ryan Shannon gave a talk on Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) on behalf of the ASKAP CRAFT Survey Science Team, with his opening slide shown above. Ryan noted that he particularly liked this image as it showed the Phased Array Feed of an ASKAP antenna, with the Large Magellanic Cloud just to the left of centre, and the Small Magellanic Cloud to the right: the first recognised Fast Radio Burst was detected from a direction very close to the SMC. Ryan highlighted recent discoveries made using ASKAP’s latest fast transient detection system, an image based system capable of searching 24 trillion pixels per second. This includes the first repeating FRB source detected with ASKAP, and one of the rare class of FRBs originating from an elliptical galaxy.