CHIME telescope

• Scientists with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration, have assembled the largest collection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the telescope’s first FRB catalogue.
• FRBs are oddly bright flashes of light, registering in the radio band of the electromagnetic spectrum, which blazes for a few milliseconds before vanishing without a trace.

CHIME is an interferometric radio telescope.

• It is located in British Columbia, Canada.
• It consists of four antennas consisting of 100 x 20 metre cylindrical parabolic reflectors with 1024 dual-polarization radio receivers suspended on support above them.
• The antenna receives radio waves from hydrogen in space at frequencies in the 400–800 MHz range.