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Abstract:
The CHIME radio telescope was designed to map the matter distribution
in the Universe over the redshift range 0.8 to 2.5, to cover the epoch
when Dark Energy became a significant factor in the universal
expansion. To achieve this, CHIME is mapping emission from redshifted
atomic hydrogen over the frequency range 400 to 800 MHz, covering the
entire Northern sky. In the first years of its operation CHIME has
also become the world’s leading detector of Fast Radio Bursts,
FRBs. FRBs are energetic events of short duration, coming from large
distances. In this talk I will briefly describe the telescope and will
discuss the progress made on both these fronts.
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