Audio-Grab-ASKAP-discovered-first-fast-radio-burst

The most interesting this about this burst is the fact that we found it with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. It wasn't really obvious that we would be able to do this as well as we ended up being able to do it.

So this telescope is really a fantastic telescope. In fact it's probably the best telescope on the planet at the moment for finding these bursts. And so whereas in the past it's taken 10 years to find 20 bursts, once we're really going with this new instrument we'll be able to find them much more quickly, one or two every week. And that will blow open the field, so that will make it a much more, we'll be able to do much more detailed studies of these things, get better statistics, hopefully understand what they are and where they're coming from.

So the thing that's most interesting about this burst is the fact that it heralds a new era not only for the telescope but for the whole field, where we'll be able to actually have lots more things to play with, that's probably the most important thing.