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Qiu et al. report the results from an ASKAP survey of the Galactic
plane for dispersed single pulses. Radio waves are dispersed in time,
with longer wavelengths arriving later, due to their passage through
the ionised plasma of the inter-stellar medium. Qiu et al. searched
for bright dispersed radio pulses over an area of 4800 square degrees,
covered by just 160 ASKAP pointings. The survey resulted in the
detection of one fast radio burst, FRB 180430, and single pulses from
11 known pulsars. No rotating radio transients were detected. The
detection of a single FRB is consistent with the current ASKAP all-sky
detection rate. The results are published
in the
paper, which is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. The image above shows the tiling of the
galactic plane using a hexagonal footprint for the arrangement of the
36 beams. Each colour denotes a different pointing.
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