CAASTRO has issued this press release on a Fast Radio Burst seen in real time at Parkes Radio Observatory. The properties of the burst are published as Petroff et al 2015, and involve a number of people on the UTMOST team.

A major goal of the UTMOST is to find FRBs at the lower frequencies at Molonglo (843 MHz) than at Parkes (1.4 GHz), in our BURST project, taking advantage of Molonglo’s huge field of view (about 8 square degrees on the sky).