HIRAX: The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment
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The 21cm transition of atomic hydrogen is rapidly becoming one of our most powerful tools for probing the evolution of the universe. The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is a planned 1,024-element array to be built in South Africa that will study the (possible) evolution of dark energy from z=0.8 to 2.5. Its design also makes it an excellent pulsar and fast radio burst (FRB) search machine. While the FRB rates in the HIRAX band are uncertain, we expect it will discover dozen(s) per day. HIRAX will use inexpensive 6m satellite television-class dishes. The same dishes can be used to build relatively inexpensive outrigger stations in southern Africa to localize a large fraction of the FRBs discovered by HIRAX to ~0.1 arcseconds, potentially transforming them into probes of the universe.