Last talk of #AAS243 — Wen-fai Fong discussed things that go flash in the night — gamma-ray bursts and fast radio bursts.
Gamma-ray bursts live colorful lives — the afterglow is seen across the EM spectrum. Fong and her collaborators follow up short-gamma ray bursts to learn about the host galaxies of these flashes of gamma-ray light caused by merging neutron stars.
She is also diving into studying the hosts of fast radio bursts, feeling like she is on a rollercoaster with all of the new data