From the Editors
We are barreling towards the end of another eventful year, and FRB-related results, both observational and theoretical, continue to pour in at a breakneck pace. We hope our readers enjoy this month's round-up and continue to stay safe and healthy, wherever they are.
Papers of Interest
Host Galaxies and Localizations
- Milliarcsecond Localisation of the Repeating FRB 20201124A; Nimmo et al., arXiv: 2111.01600
- A Fast Radio Burst Source at a Complex Magnetised Site in a Barred Galaxy; H. Xu et al, arXiv: 2111.11764
Observational Results
- Search for Fast Radio Transients Using Arecibo Drift-Scan Observations at 1.4 GHz; Perera et al., arXiv: 2110.14698
- Multiband Detection of Repeating FRB 20180916B; Sand et al., arXiv: 2111.02382
- Scintillation Timescales of Bright FRBs Detected by CHIME/FRB; Schoen et al., arXiv: 2111.08753
- Arecibo Observations of a Burst Storm from FRB 20121102A in 2016; Hewitt et al., arXiv: 2111.11282
Theory and Modeling
- Constraining the Nature of FRB-emitting Bunches via Photo-magnetic Cascade; Cooper & Wijers, arXiv: 2110.15244
- On the Fast Radio Burst and Persistent Radio Source Populations; Law, Connor & Aggarwal, arXiv: 2110.15323
- Faraday Rotation in Fast Radio Bursts; Lyutikov, arXiv: 2111.00281
- Neutrino Emission from FRB-emitting Magnetars; Yuanhong Qu & Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2111.04121
- Coherent Inverse Compton Scattering by Bunches in Fast Radio Bursts; Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2111.06571
- Statistical Measurements of Dispersion Measure Fluctuations of FRBs; Siyao Xu, David H. Weinberg & Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2111.07417
- Fast Radio Burst Distributions Consistent with the First CHIME/FRB Catalog; Da-Chun Qiang, Shu-Ling Li & Hao Wei, arXiv: 2111.07476
- Three Aspects of the Radius-to-Frequency Mapping in Fast Radio Bursts; H. Tong et al., arXiv: 2111.09548
- Relativistic Oblique Shocks with Ordered or Random Magnetic Fields: Tangential Field Governs; Jing-Ze Ma & Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2111.09206
- Magnetospheric Curvature Radiation by Bunches as Emission Mechanism for Repeating Fast Radio Bursts; Wei-Yang Wang et al., arXiv: 2111.11841
- Upper Limits on Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle Placed by Uncertainties of Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts; Hashimoto et al., arXiv: 2111.11447
- Constraining Violations of the Weak Equivalence Principle Using CHIME FRBs; Sen et al., arXiv: 2111.11451
Algorithms and Instrumentation
- Global Sky Models can Improve Flux Estimates in Pulsar and FRB Studies; Price, arXiv: 2110.15469
- A GPU Based Single-Pulse Search Pipeline (GSP) with Database and Its Application to the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS); Shanping You et al., arXiv: 2110.12749
- Real-Time Detection of Anomalies in Large-Scale Transient Surveys; Muthukrishna et al., arXiv: 2111.00036
- Realtime Alerts of the Transient Sky on Mobile Devices; Reichherzer et al., arXiv: 2111.05427
- Harvesting BAT-GUANO with NITRATES (Non-Imaging Transient Reconstruction And TEmporal Search): Detecting and Localizing the Faintest GRBs with a Likelihood Framework; DeLaunay & Tohuvavohu, arXiv: 2111.01769
- Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen Signal of Interest blc1 with a Technosignature Verification Framework; Sheikh et al., arXiv: 2111.06350
Magnetars and other relevant results
- Radio and X-ray Observations of Giant Pulses from XTE J1810-197; Caleb et al., arXiv: 2111.01641
- Unusual Emission Variations Near the Eclipse of A Black Widow PSR J1720-0533; S.Q. Wang et al., arXiv: 2111.02690
- Linking Extragalactic Transients and their Host Galaxy Properties: Transient Sample, Multi-Wavelength Host Identification, and Database Construction; Yu-Jing Qin et al., arXiv: 2111.08016
- Estimating Transient Rates from Cosmological Simulations and BPASS; Briel et al., arXiv: 2111.08124
From the Astronomer's Telegram
- The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory used a newly commissioned autonomous repointing mode to observe FRB 20211122A just 39 minutes after the detection was broadcast through the real-time CHIME/FRB VOEvent Service. Upper limits were reported on coincident X-ray and optical emission (ATel 15055).
Relevant Job Listings
-- Postdoctoral position in FRBs/pulsars at Curtin University, Western Australia. Applications due 6 December, 2021. Curtin University Job Vacancies.
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