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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration bursts of radio waves that mostly originate from outside our galaxy. Although their exact causes remain uncertain, astronomers are now beginning to use these bursts as tools to probe the cosmos. One of the remarkable properties of these radio transients are their scintillations, which are variations in brightness caused by the scattering due to the irregularities in the intervening medium. These scintillations can be used as a tool to study the properties of the intervening medium and the FRB source itself.
We develop a pipeline to measure the scintillations for some of the brightest FRBs using CHIME Catalog1 Data. The result are then compared with the scintillation model in the Milky way and constrain the origin of the scattering of FRBs.
