Franz Kirsten

Employment

• Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, ASTRON Postdoctoral Researcher
  2021 - Present
• Chalmers University of Technology Campus Lindholmen Postdoctoral Researcher
  2017 - 2021
• Curtin University Research Associate
  2014 - 2017

Education

• Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn PhD
  2011 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (35)

• A Milliarcsecond Localization Associates FRB 20190417A with a Compact Persistent Radio Source and an Extreme Magnetoionic Environment
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae28c7
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• A probe of the maximum energetics of fast radio bursts through a prolific repeating source
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1937
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• A Hyperactive Fast Radio Burst Pinpointed in an SMC-like Satellite Host Galaxy
  Mohit Bhardwaj, M. P. Snelders, Jason W. T. Hessels +24 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2025 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae0b68
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• Scintillation Properties of PSR B1133+16 Measured with Very Long Baseline Interferometry
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae0742
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• Multiwavelength constraints on the origin of a nearby repeating fast radio burst source in a globular cluster
  Nature Astronomy 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02386-6
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• The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450271
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• A link between repeating and non-repeating fast radio bursts through their energy distributions
  Nature Astronomy 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-023-02153-z
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• Constraints on the Persistent Radio Source Associated with FRB 20190520B Using the European VLBI Network
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2023 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad083f
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• Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A
  Nature Astronomy 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-023-02101-x
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• Multiwavelength Constraints on the Origin of a Nearby Repeating Fast Radio Burst Source in a Globular Cluster
  2023 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3279219/v1
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• The Radio Parallax of the Crab Pulsar: A First VLBI Measurement Calibrated with Giant Pulses
  The Astrophysical Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acdc98
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• The mystery of fast radio bursts: another piece to the puzzle that doesn’t quite fit
  TheScienceBreaker 2023 DOI: 10.25250/thescbr.brk703
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• Resolving the Emission Regions of the Crab Pulsar’s Giant Pulses. II. Evidence for Relativistic Motion
  The Astrophysical Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acba95
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• Milliarcsecond Localization of the Repeating FRB 20201124A
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2022 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac540f
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• A repeating fast radio burst source in a globular cluster
  Franz Kirsten, B. Marcote, Kenzie Nimmo +63 more
  Nature 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04354-w
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• Burst timescales and luminosities as links between young pulsars and fast radio bursts
  Kenzie Nimmo, Jason W. T. Hessels, Franz Kirsten +45 more
  Nature Astronomy 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01569-9
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• X-Ray Burst and Persistent Emission Properties of the Magnetar SGR 1830-0645 in Outburst
  The Astrophysical Journal 2022 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3756
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• LOFAR Detection of 110–188 MHz Emission and Frequency-dependent Activity from FRB 20180916B
  Ziggy Pleunis, Daniele Michilli, C. Bassa +32 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2021 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abec72
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• Highly polarized microstructure from the repeating FRB 20180916B
  Nature Astronomy 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01321-3
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• The 60 pc Environment of FRB 20180916B
  Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, A. Gil de Paz, Aida Yu. Kirichenko +18 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2021 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abdb38
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