SIMBAD references

2023RAA....23i5023Z - Research in Astron. and astroph., 23, part no 9, 5023 (2023/September-0)

An Overview of FAST Real-time Fast Radio Burst Searching System.

ZHANG X.X., DUAN R., GAJJAR V., ZHANG H.Y., WANG P., NIU C.H., WERTHIMER D., COBB J., LI S.Y., PEI X., ZHU Y. and LI D.

Abstract (from CDS):

In this paper, we report a real-time Fast Radio Burst (FRB) searching system that has been successfully implemented with the 19 beam receiver of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The relatively small field of view of FAST makes the search for new FRBs challenging, but its high sensitivity significantly improves the accuracy of FRB localization and enables the detection of high-precision neutral hydrogen absorption lines generated by FRBs. Our goal is to develop an FRB searching system capable of real-time detection of FRBs that allows high-time resolution spectro-temporal studies among the repeated bursts, as well as detailed investigations of these bursts and exploration of FRB progenitor models. The data from each beam of the 19-beam receiver are fed into a high-performance computing node server, which performs real-time searches for pulses with a wide dispersion measure (DM) range of 20-10,000 pc cm–3 with step efficiency of 25% in real time. Then, the head node server aggregates all the candidate signals from each beam within a given time, determining their authenticity based on various criteria, including arrival time, pulse width, signal-to-noise ratio and coincidence patterns among the 19 beams. Within the 1.05-1.45 GHz operating bandwidth of the FAST 19 beam receiver, the system achieves a frequency resolution of 122.07 kHz and a time resolution of 270.336 μs. Subsequently, our team detected a series of bursts with a DM of 566 on 2019 August 30 confirming them as FRB 121102. The FRB searching system enables the 19-beam receiver of FAST to detect repeated/one-off pulses/bursts in real time.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. National Astronomical Observatories, CAS and IOP Publishing Ltd.

Journal keyword(s): Astronomical Instrumentation - Methods and Techniques - instrumentation: spectrographs - methods: miscellaneous

Simbad objects: 8

goto Full paper

goto View the references in ADS

To bookmark this query, right click on this link: simbad:2023RAA....23i5023Z and select 'bookmark this link' or equivalent in the popup menu