Happy Solstice to our readers! Here's a quick round-up of recent papers relevant to FRBs. Please keep sending in your items of interest, and we hope this newsletter continues to be useful and informative.

Observational Results

• A Radio Continuum Study of NGC 2082; Balzan et al., arXiv: 2205.11144
• The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS): Design, Commissioning, Data Release, and Detection of the first 5 Fast Radio Bursts; van Leeuwen et al., arXiv: 2205.12362
• First Discoveries and Localisations of Fast Radio Bursts with MeerTRAP: A Real-Time, Commensal MeerKAT Survey; Rajwade et al., arXiv: 2205.14600
• A Burst Storm from the Repeating FRB 20200120E in an M81 Globular Cluster; Nimmo et al., arXiv: 2206.03759

Theory and Modeling

• Searching for Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Astrophysical Transients using Gaussian Processes; Hubner et al., arXiv: 2205.12716
• Faraday Conversion in Pair-Symmetric Winds of Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts; Lyutikov, arXiv: 2205.13435
• Precession and Jitter in FRB 180916B; Katz, arXiv: 2205.15385
• Constraints on the Helium Abundance from Fast Radio Bursts; Liang Jing & Jun-Qing Xia, arXiv: 2206.04553
• A Heuristic Account of the Radiation by the Superluminally Moving Current Sheet in the Magnetosphere of a Neutron Star; Ardavan, arXiv: 2206.02729
• Radio Nebulae from Hyper-Accreting X-ray Binaries as Common Envelope Precursors and Persistent Counterparts of Fast Radio Bursts; Sridhar & Metzger, arXiv: 2206.10486
• On the Relation Between Duration and Energy of Non-Repeating Fast Radio Bursts: Census with the CHIME Data; Seong Jin Kim et al., arXiv: 2206.11330
• Thermodynamics of Magnetized Dense Neutron-Rich Matter; Diener, arXiv: 2206.04433

Algorithms and Instrumentation

• Mitigating Radio Frequency Interference in CHIME/FRB Real-Time Intensity Data; Rafiei-Ravandi & Smith, arXiv: 2206.07292
• BURSTT: Bustling Universe Radio Survey Telescope for Taiwan; Hsiu-Hsien Lin et al., arXiv: 2206.08983
• The GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey for Pulsars and Transients -- III: Searching for Long Period Pulsars; Singh et al., arXiv: 2206.00427

Magnetars and other relevant results

• Looking at Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients through Neutrino Glasses; Guarini, Tamborra & Raffaella Margutti; arXiv: 2205.12282
• Discovery of a Radio Emitting Neutron Star with an Ultra-Long Spin Period of 76 Seconds; Caleb et al., arXiv: 2206.01346; Nature Astronomy DOI: s41550-022-01688-x
• Independent Discovery of a Nulling Pulsar with Unusual Sub-Pulse Drifting Properties with the Murchison Widefield Array; McSweeney et al., arXiv: 2206.00805
• MeerKAT Observations of the Reversing Drifting Subpulses in PSR J1750-3503; Szary et al., arXiv: 2206.02382
• The Discovery of a Rotating Radio Transient J1918-0449 with Intriguing Emission Properties with the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope; J. L. Chen et al., arXiv: 2206.03091
• Magnetar Engines in Fast Blue Optical Transients and Their Connections with SLSNe, SNe Ic-BL, and lGRBs; Jian-Feng Liu et al., arXiv: 2206.03303
• Tangled magnetic field model of QPOs; Bretz, van Eysden & Link, arXiv: 2206.09544
• Detection of Quasi-Periodic Micro-Structure in Three Millisecond Pulsars with the Large European Array for Pulsars; Liu et al., arXiv: 2206.10045

  We also discuss a possible link of micro-structure to the properties of some of the recently discovered fast radio bursts which exhibit a very similar emission morphology.

• A Flat-Spectrum Radio Transient at 122 Mpc consistent with an Emerging Pulsar Wind Nebula; Dong & Hallinan, arXiv: 2206.11911

IAU GA 2022 / FRB2022: The IAU General Assembly in Busan, South Korea is coming soon, with the symposium on Fast Radio Bursts scheduled for 2-4 August 2022.

-- Research Software Developers for CHIME/FRB and CHIME Slow Pulsar at McGill University. Closing 30 June, 2022. International applicants welcome!
McGill Workday Listing 1 & Listing 2.

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