TY  - CONF
AU  - Spitler, Laura
AU  - Kirsten, Franz
AU  - Nelles, Anna
AU  - Wang, Pei
AU  - Savaglio, Sandra
TI  - The most important questions in pulsar- and fast transient research (and limitations through RFI)
CY  - Zeuthen
M1  - PUBDB-2024-07836
SP  - 4
PY  - 2024
AB  - Coherent emission from the magnetospheres of compact objects, such as radio pulsarsand likely fast radio burst and long period transients, varies on short (”fast”) time scales. Ob-servations of these sources occur primarily between 100 MHz and 10 GHz. Furthermore, particleshowers from cosmic rays impacting Earth’s atmosphere generate radio pulses on nanosecond-scales, which are detectable below 1 GHz. Radio frequency interference negatively impacts thescience of fast transients. It can overwhelm the desired astrophysical signal, leaving the latter un-detected, and introduce orders of magnitude more false positives than true positives. But mostimportantly, developing RFI mitigation techniques diverts person-hours away from scientificinvestigations of these interesting events. 
T2  - Astronomy in Focus, Focus Meeting 5 XXXIInd IAU General Assembly
CY  - 6 Aug 2024 - 12 Aug 2024, Cape Town (South Africa)
Y2  - 6 Aug 2024 - 12 Aug 2024
M2  - Cape Town, South Africa
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)8
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/619697
ER  -