Abstract

The FRATs project aims to detect single dispersed pulses from Fast Radio Transients with LOFAR in real‐time. These pulses can originate from pulsars, RRATS and other classes of known or unknown objects. To detect these pulses a detection algorithm is being run on an incoherent beam from the different LOFAR stations. This incoherent beam has a wide field of view and can be formed parallel to other observations, such that both can run at the same time. A precise localisation is done by storing the data from each dipole. This gives an all‐sky coverage with a spatial resolution of order arc seconds. The source is identified by making high time‐resolution images. This is explained in more detail with preliminary results illustrating the methods.