Synchronised telescope dance puts limits on mysterious flashes in the sky

The ASKAP and Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescopes at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australian have taken a coordinated approach to look for mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs). While ASKAP detected several FRBs, the MWA - which scans the sky at lower frequencies - did not see anything, even though it was pointed at the same area of sky at the same time. This new research has been published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Added by Gabby Russell on 2018-10-31