Prospects of detecting Fast Radio Bursts using Indian Radio Telescopes

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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short duration highly energetic dispersed radio pulses.

• We developed a generic formalism (Bera {\em et al.}, 2016) to estimate the FRB detection rate for any radio telescope with given parameters.
• By using this model, we estimated the FRB detection rate for two Indian radio telescope; the Ooty Wide Field Array (OWFA) (Bhattacharyya {\em et al.}, 2017) and the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) (Bhattacharyya {\em et al.}, 2018) with three beam forming modes.
• In this review article, I summarize these two works.