FRB Newsletter Volume 03, Issue 03 — March 2022

Total FRB count: 614 (0 new)
Repeaters: 24 (0 new)
Host galaxies: 20 (0 new)

From the Editors

Another month, another issue of the FRB Community Newsletter. Here is a quick round-up of the latest news, results, and other items of interest. And a big thank you to everyone who filled out our short survey. The results are shown in charts below - you make for an engaged, global readership!

Papers of Interest

Reviews
  • The Low Frequency Perspective on Fast Radio Bursts; Pilia, arXiv: 2203.04890
Observational Results
  • The Large Dispersion and Scattering of FRB 20190520B are Dominated by the Host Galaxy; Ocker et al., arXiv: 2202.13458
  • AT2020hur: A Possible Optical Counterpart of FRB 180916B; Long Li et al., arXiv: 2203.06994
  • Simultaneous View of the FRB180301 with FAST and NICER During a Bursting Phase; Laha et al., arXiv: 2203.07465
  • Limits on the Hard X-ray Emission from the Periodic Fast Radio Burst FRB 180916.J0158+65; Laha et al., arXiv: 2203.07489
  • Magnetic Field Reversal Around an Active Fast Radio Burst; Dai et al., arXiv: 2203.08151
    Editors' note: FRB20190520B, with observations at Parkes and GBT; see also Anna-Thomas et al., arXiv: 2202.11112 for GBT results on this source.
  • Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB During the LIGO--Virgo Observing Run O3a; The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration, the CHIME/FRB Collaboration, arXiv: 2203.12038
Theory and Modeling
  • The Sources of Apparently Non-Repeating FRB; Katz, arXiv: 2203.03675
  • Electromagnetic Fireworks: Fast Radio Bursts from Rapid Reconnection in the Compressed Magnetar Wind; Mahlmann et al., arXiv: 2203.04320
  • Effects of Gravitational Wave Radiation of Eccentric Neutron Star-White Dwarf Binaries on the Periodic Activity of Fast Radio Burst Sources; Yi-Qing Lin et al., arXiv: 2203.06303
  • Angular Dependence of Coherent Radio Emission from Magnetars with Multipolar Magnetic Fields; Shotaro Yamasaki, Kazim Yavuz Eksi & Ersin Gogus, arXiv: 2203.06507
  • Comparison of the Parkes and FAST FRB DM Distribution; Arcus et al., arXiv: 2203.08816
  • Search for the Correlations Between Host Properties and DM_host of Fast Radio Bursts: Constraints on the Baryon Mass Fraction in IGM; Hai-Nan Lin, Xin Li & Li Tang, arXiv: 2203.09139
  • A Possible Subclassification of Fast Radio Bursts; Han-Yue Guo & Hao Wei, arXiv: 2203.12551
Magnetars and other relevant results
  • MeerTRAP: Twelve Galactic Fast Transients Detected in a Real-time, Commensal MeerKAT survey; Bezuidenhout et al., arXiv: 2203.00557
From the Astronomer's Telegram
  • FRB 20201124A has been in an active phase, with a bright burst detected at 2 GHz with the 64-m telescope at Usada (ATel 15285), and multiple bursts detected at 1.4 GHz at FAST (ATel 15288) and at the Xinjiang Nanshan 26-m telescope (ATel 15289).
Upcoming Meetings and Conferences

FRB 2022: The Dawn Of Cosmology & Multi-Messenger Studies With Fast Radio Bursts: FRB 2022 will take place as part of the IAU General Assembly, 2 - 4 August, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. Abstract submission closes 31 March; see conference website.

Universe Webinar: Long-term Periodicity in FRB Activity. 12 Apr 2022, 15:00 (CET). See webinar site.

The new transient radio sky. Royal Astronomical Society meeting, 13 May 2022, Programme in preparation. See meeting website.

Relevant Job Listings

-- Research Associate in Pulsar and Fast Transients Software Development and Research at University of Manchester. Manchester Jobs.

Survey Results

-- Respondents' Geographic Location
  • Africa: 2.5%
  • Asia: 11.1%
  • Europe: 34.6%
  • North America: 40.7%
  • Oceania: 7.4%
  • South America: 3.7%
  • Antarctica: 0%
-- Respondents' Connection to the Field of FRBs
  • Undergrad or high school: 0%
  • Grad student (MSc, PhD): 22.2%
  • Researcher: 70.4%
  • Journalist: 1.2%
  • Amateur astronomer: 1.2%
  • Interested Member of the Public: 3.7%
  • Other: 1.2%


Do you have an item for future newsletters? Please send these via email to the editors (Emily and Shami) to be included in an upcoming issue.