Introduction

What are FRBs?

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a class of radio frequency transients that currently have an unknown astrophysical origin [1]. FRB are characterised by their large dispersion measures (DMs; \(~100 - 2500\ \rm{pc\ cm^{-3}}\)) and short durations (\(30\ \mu \rm{s} - 30\ \rm{ms}\)).

For a database of all currently known FRBs see frbcat.org

[1]	At the time of writing (Feburary 2019) an optical counterpart of FRBs has not been detected.