FRB Newsletter Volume 03, Issue 04 — April 2022

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

From the Editors

Some parts of the world continue their cautious re-emergence from the pandemic as waves rise and fall in different countries. We hope our readers are staying safe and healthy, and we invite you all to send us links to any new results or online talks of interest. Meanwhile, here's our 32nd newsletter issue!

Papers of Interest

Recent Reviews
  • Fast Radio Bursts; Di Xiao, Fayin Wang, Zigao Dai, arXiv: 2203.14198
Observational Results
  • Search for Coincident Gravitational Wave and Fast Radio Burst Events from 4-OGC and the First CHIME/FRB Catalog; Yi-Fan Wang, Alexander H. Nitz, arXiv: 2203.17222
  • The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project - II. Monitoring of repeating FRB 20180916B, 20181030A, 20200120E and 20201124A; Trudu et al., arXiv: 2204.05050
  • Search for Dispersed Pulses at Declinations from +56o to +87o; Tyul'bashev et al., arXiv: 2204.04933
  • Constraining Primordial Black Holes using Fast Radio Burst Gravitational-Lens Interferometry with CHIME/FRB; Leung et al., arXiv: 2204.06001
  • A High-Time Resolution Search for Compact Objects using Fast Radio Burst Gravitational Lens Interferometry with CHIME/FRB; Kader et al., arXiv: 2204.06014
  • Non-detection of CHIME/FRB sources with the Arecibo Observatory; Good et al., arXiv: 2204.09090
  • Propagation of a fast radio burst through a birefringent relativistic plasma; Kumar et al., arXiv: 2204.10816
  • Deep simultaneous limits on optical emission from FRB 20190520B by 24.4 fps observations with Tomo-e Gozen; Yuu Niino et al., arXiv: 2204.12334
Theory and Modeling
  • The Environment and Constraints on the Mass of FRB 190520B; Katz, arXiv: 2203.14943
  • Radio Scattering Horizons for Galactic and Extragalactic Transients; Ocker et al., arXiv: 2203.16716
  • A repeating fast radio burst residing in a magnetar/Be star binary; F. Y. Wang et al., arXiv: 2204.08124
  • Magnetar bursts due to Alfven wave nonlinear breakout; Yajie Yuan et al., arXiv: 2204.08513
  • Transparency of Fast Radio Burst Waves in Magnetar Magnetospheres; Yuanhong Qu, Pawan Kumar, Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2204.10953
  • The Multiple Images of the Plasma Lensing FRB; Y-B. Wang et al., arXiv: 2204.11648
  • The Moving Mirror model for Fast Radio Bursts; Yalinewich & Pen, arXiv: 2204.11663
Algorithms and Instrumentation
  • Radio Transient Detection with Closure Products and Machine Learning; Xia Zhang et al., arXiv: 2204.01958
Magnetars and other relevant results
  • Insight-HXMT dedicated 33-day observation of SGR J1935+2154 I. Burst Catalog; Ce Cai et al., arXiv: 2203.16855
  • Insight-HXMT dedicated 33-day observation of SGR J1935+2154 II. Burst Spectral Catalog; Ce Cai et al., arXiv: 2204.07369
  • Quasi-periodic oscillations of the X-ray burst from the magnetar SGR J1935+2154 and associated with the fast radio burst FRB 200428; Xiaobo Li et al., arXiv: 2204.03253
  • An updated view and perspectives on high-energy gamma-ray emission from SGR J1935+2154 and its environment; Coelho et al., arXiv: 2204.09734
  • Pushchino multibeam pulsar search -- II. Long-term variability of RRATs; Smirnova et al., arXiv: 2203.13597
  • New candidates for magnetar counterparts from a deep search with the Hubble Space Telescope; Chrimes et al., arXiv: 2203.14947
  • Early Evolution of a Newborn Magnetar with Strong Precession Motion in GRB 180620A; Le Zou, En-Wei Liang, arXiv: 2204.03210
From the Astronomer's Telegram
  • The Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array, a new radio interferometer located in Xinjiang, China, reports its first FRB detection at 700-800 MHz with a fluence of 204 Jy-ms and a DM of 208 pc/cc (ATel 15342).
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