CHIME to Construct Outrigger Telescope to Search for FRBs at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory

CHIME to Construct Outrigger Telescope to Search for FRBs at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory PRESS RELEASE DATE March 30, 2022 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org McGill University: Fergus Grieve... More

CHIME to Construct Outrigger Telescope to Search for FRBs at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory PRESS RELEASE DATE March 30, 2022 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org McGill University: Fergus Grieve Communications Officer, fergus.grieve@mcgill.ca Andre Renard, The CHIME Collaboration. March 30, 2022, Mountain View, CA – The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is expanding its ability to more accurately identify where fast radio bursts (FRBs) are coming from. CHIME is constructing a new radio telescope outrigger at the SETI Institute’s Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO), site of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). The outrigger will work with the main CHIME instrument in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley and enable CHIME-detected FRBs to be precisely localized on the sky. In addition to the new radio telescope at HCRO, CHIME is constructing outriggers near Princeton, British Columbia. on land kindly leased to CHIME by HML M Less