From the editors:
There was an outpouring of FRB news and results at the recently concluded FRB2021 virtual meeting, resulting in a hefty edition of the FRB newsletter this month. Most of the talks are posted online (see below) in case you missed some of them and would like to catch up. As always, we hope our readers are staying safe and healthy wherever they are!
Papers of interest
Host Galaxies and Localizations
- The Fast Radio Burst FRB 20201124A in a Star Forming Region: Constraints to the Progenitor and Multiwavelength Counterparts; Piro et al., arXiv: 2107.14339
- Characterizing the FRB Host Galaxy Population and its Connection to Transients in the Local and Extragalactic Universe; Bhandari et al., arXiv: 2108.01282
Observational Results
- Modeling Fast Radio Burst Dispersion and Scattering Properties in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog; Chawla et al., arXiv: 2107.10858
- Measuring Interstellar Turbulence in Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies; Simard & Ravi, arXiv: 2107.11334
- Energy and Waiting Time Distributions of FRB 121102 Observed by FAST; G. Q. Zhang et al., arXiv: 2107.11557
- Similar Scale-Invariant Behaviors between Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters and An Extreme Epoch from FRB 121102; Jun-Jie Wei et al., arXiv: 2107.12605
- Polarization Properties of FRB 20201124A from Detections with the 100-m Effelsberg Radio Telescope; Hilmarsson, Spitler, Main & Li, arXiv: 2107.12892
- A Detection of Circumgalactic Gas with Fast Radio Bursts; Connor & Ravi, arXiv: 2107.13692
- Scintillation Timescale Measurement of the Highly Active FRB20201124A; Main et al., arXiv: 2108.00052
- 81 New Candidate Fast Radio Bursts in Parkes Archive; X. Yang et al, arXiv: 2108.00609
- Burst Properties of the Highly Active FRB 20201124A using uGMRT; Marthi et al., arXiv: 2108.00697
- Redshift Estimation and Constraints on Intergalactic and Interstellar Media from Dispersion and Scattering of Fast Radio Bursts; Cordes, Ocker & Chatterjee, arXiv: 2108.01172
- Multi-epoch Searches for Relativistic Binary Pulsars and Fast Transients in the Galactic Centre; Eatough et al., arXiv: 2108.05241
- Constraints on Optical Emission of FAST-Detected FRB 20181130B with GWAC Synchronized Observations; L. P. Xin et al., arXiv: 2108.06931
- Gamma-ray and Optical Observations of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with VERITAS; Lundy, VERITAS collaboration, arXiv: 2108.09354
- Estimating the Contribution of Foreground Halos to the FRB 180924 Dispersion Measure; Simha et al., arXiv: 2108.09881
Theory and Modeling
- Coherent Curvature Radiation: Maximum Luminosity and High-Energy Emission; Cooper & Wijers, arXiv: 2108.07818
- Empirical Assessment of Aperiodic and Periodic Radio Bursts from Young Precessing Magnetars; Cordes, Wasserman, Chatterjee & Batra, arXiv: 2107.12874
- Non-Axisymmetric Precession of Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts; Wasserman, Cordes, Chatterjee & Batra, arXiv: 2107.12911
- Free-Free Absorption in Hot Relativistic Flows: Application to Fast Radio Bursts; Kundu & Zhang, arXiv: 2107.12989
- Constraining Mechanism Associated with Fast Radio Burst and Glitch from SGR J1935; Wei-Hua Wang et al, arXiv: 2107.13725
- Down-Drifting, Bandwidth and Beaming of Fast Radio Bursts; Tunstov, Pen & Walker, arXiv: 2107.13549
- What It Takes to Measure Reionization with Fast Radio Bursts; Heimersheim, Sartorio, Fialkov & Lorimer, arXiv: 2107.14242
- An 8% Determination of the Hubble Constant from Localized Fast Radio Bursts; Q. Wu, G. Q. Zhang, F. Y. Wang, arXiv: 2108.00581
- Periodic Activities of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts from Be/X-ray Binary Systems; Qiao-Chu Li et al., arXiv: 2108.00350
- Statistical Similarity Between Soft Gamma Repeaters and the Repeating Fast Radio Bursts; Yu Sang, Hai-Nan Lin, arXiv: 2108.01534
- A Forecast of Using Fast Radio Burst Observations to Constrain Holographic Dark Energy; Xing-Wei Qiu et al., arXiv: 2108.04127
- Scattering of Ultrastrong Electromagnetic Waves by Magnetized Particles; Beloborodov, arXiv: 2108.05464
- Can a Strong Radio Burst Escape the Magnetosphere of a Magnetar? Beloborodov, arXiv: 2108.07881
- Can Primordial Black Holes as all Dark Matter explain Fast Radio Bursts? Kainulainen, Nurmi, Schiappacasse & Yanagida, arXiv: 2108.08717
- Reconciling the 16.35-day Period of FRB 20180916B with Jet Precession; Hao-Yan Chen et al., arXiv: 2108.08982
Algorithms and Instrumentation
- Observational Effects of Banded Repeating FRBs; Aggarwal, arXiv: 2108.04474
- A Phenomenological Model for Measuring Generalised Faraday Rotation; Lower, arXiv: 2108.09429
Magnetars and other relevant results
- Observation of Burst Activity from SGR 1935+2154 Associated to First Galactic FRB with H.E.S.S; Kostunin, Ashkar, Schussler & Rowell, arXiv: 2108.03404
- 4-8 GHz Spectro-temporal Emission from the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745-2900; Suresh et al., arXiv: 2108.05404
- First Frequency-Time-Resolved Imaging Spectroscopy Observations of Solar Radio Spikes; Clarkson et al., arXiv: 2108.06191
- The HI Column Density Distribution of the Galactic Disk and Halo; French et al., arXiv: 2108.07419
From the Astronomer's Telegram
- Upper limits on X-ray and UV emission from the repeating FRB 20201124A were reported from Swift observations on 28 July 2021 (ATel 14836).
Upcoming meetings and conferences
IAU Symposium 363: Neutron Star Astrophysics at the Crossroads: Magnetars and the Multimessenger Revolution. Virtual meeting, 29 November - 3 December, 2021. Abstract deadline 31 August, 2021. More information on the conference website.
Recent online talks of interest
Relevant job listings
-- Postdoctoral position at the Department of Physics at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in Taiwan to work in the group of Prof. Tetsuya Hashimoto on fast radio bursts, gamma-ray bursts, and galaxy formation and evolution. Applications due 15 September, 2021. AAS Job Register.
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