Radio Astronomy Data Analysis and Fast Radio Bursts

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic bursts of light on the radio spectrum discovered back in 2007, and there are many different progenitor models, however none have been confirmed answers that can satisfy every observed characteristic perfectly. The West Virginia University (WVU) research teams use the Green Bank Radio Radio Observatory (GBRO) and various methods to analyze data typically from pulsars, ordinary rotating neutron stars. However, many other objects can be detected through radio frequency radiation such as magnetars, other radio transients, and binary systems. Detections for these objects are less established than pulsar observations, so I perform research alongside the FRB follow-up team from WVU to best utilize data from the GBRO to contribute to the discovery and inquiry of FRBs.