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2019MNRAS.488.2989F - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 488, 2989-3002 (2019/September-3)

Five new real-time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST.

FARAH W., FLYNN C., BAILES M., JAMESON A., BATEMAN T., CAMPBELL-WILSON D., DAY C.K., DELLER A.T., GREEN A.J., GUPTA V., HUNSTEAD R., LOWER M.E., OSLOWSKI S., PARTHASARATHY A., PRICE D.C., RAVI V., SHANNON R.M., SUTHERLAND A., TEMBY D., VENKATRAMAN KRISHNAN V., CALEB M., CHANG S.-W., CRUCES M., ROY J., MORELLO V., ONKEN C.A., STAPPERS B.W., WEBB S. and WOLF C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We detail a new fast radio burst (FRB) survey with the Molonglo Radio Telescope, in which six FRBs were detected between 2017 June and 2018 December. By using a real-time FRB detection system, we captured raw voltages for five of the six events, which allowed for coherent dedispersion and very high time resolution (10.24 µs) studies of the bursts. Five of the FRBs show temporal broadening consistent with interstellar and/or intergalactic scattering, with scattering time-scales ranging from 0.16 to 29.1 ms. One burst, FRB181017, shows remarkable temporal structure, with three peaks each separated by 1 ms. We searched for phase-coherence between the leading and trailing peaks and found none, ruling out lensing scenarios. Based on this survey, we calculate an all-sky rate at 843 MHz of 98+59–39 events sky–1 d–1 to a fluence limit of 8 Jy ms: a factor of 7 below the rates estimated from the Parkes and ASKAP telescopes at 1.4 GHz assuming the ASKAP-derived spectral index α = -1.6 (Fν ∝ να). Our results suggest that FRB spectra may turn over below 1 GHz. Optical, radio, and X-ray follow-up has been made for most of the reported bursts, with no associated transients found. No repeat bursts were found in the survey.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): instrumentation: interferometers - methods: data analysis

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