FRB Newsletter Volume 03, Issue 08 — August 2022

Total FRB count: 628 (5 new)
Repeaters: 24 (0 new)
Host galaxies: 20 (0 new)
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From the Editors

We have an outpouring of news this month, as well as reports of a lively FRB meeting at the IAU General Assembly in Busan, South Korea. We look forward to more of those results making it into papers posted to the arXiv, to appear here in future months. Meanwhile, we hope our readers are staying safe and healthy - enjoy this bumper newsletter issue!

Papers of Interest

Observational Results
  • Four New Fast Radio Bursts Discovered in the Parkes 70-cm Pulsar Survey Archive; Crawford et al., arXiv: 2207.12332
  • High Frequency Study of FRB 20180916B Using the 100-m Effelsberg Radio Telescope; Bethapudi et al., arXiv: 2207.13669
  • Limits on Fast Radio Burst-like Counterparts to Gamma-ray Bursts using CHIME/FRB; Curtin et al., arXiv: 2208.00803
  • A Measurement of Hubble's Constant using Fast Radio Bursts; James et al., arXiv: 2208.00819
Theory and Modeling
  • Inferring the Energy and Distance Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts using the First CHIME/FRB Catalog; Shin et al., arXiv: 2207.14316
  • Reconnection-Powered Fast Radio Transients from Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries; Most & Philippov, arXiv: 2207.14435
  • Gravitational Lensing in the Presence of Plasma Scattering with Application to Fast Radio Bursts; Kumar & Beniamini, arXiv: 2208.03332
  • The Sources of Fast Radio Bursts; Katz, arXiv: 2207.13241
  • Revealing Dark Matter Dress of Primordial Black Holes by Cosmological Lensing; Oguri, Takhistov, & Kohri, arXiv: 2208.05957

    Strong lensing analysis of fast radio bursts detected by CHIME survey already starts to probe parameter space of dressed stellar-mass PBHs, and upcoming searches can efficiently explore dressed PBHs over ~10-1,000 solar mass-range...

  • A Method for Reconstructing the Galactic Magnetic Field Using Dispersion of Fast Radio Bursts and Faraday Rotation of Radio Galaxies; Pandhi et al., arXiv: 2208.06417
  • The Effects of Plasma on the Magnification and Time Delay of Strongly Lensed Fast Radio Bursts; Xinzhong Er & Shude Mao, arXiv: 2208.08208
  • Faraday Rotation Measure Variations of Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources; Yuan-Pei Yang, Siyao Xu, & Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2208.08712
  • Repeating Fast Radio Bursts from Neutron Star Binaries: Multi-band and Multi-messenger Opportunities; Zhen Pan, Huan Yang, & Kent Yagi, arXiv: 2208.08808
  • Repeating Ultraluminous X-ray Bursts and Repeating Fast Radio Bursts: A Possible Association? Hao-Yan Chen et al., arXiv: 2208.08972
  • Prospects of Strongly Lensed Fast Radio Bursts: Simultaneous Measurement of Post-Newtonian Parameter and Hubble Constant; Ran Gao, Zhengxiang Li, & He Gao, arXiv: 2208.10175
Algorithms and Instrumentation
  • FRBSTATS: A Web-Based Platform for Visualization of Fast Radio Burst Properties; Spanakis-Misirlis, arXiv: 2208.03508
  • Antenna Characterization for the HIRAX Experiment; Kuhn et al., arXiv: 2207.12461
  • The Inside-Out, Upside-Down Telescope: The Argus Array's New Pseudofocal Design; Law et al., arXiv: 2207.14318
  • The Sky at One Terabit per Second: Architecture and Implementation of the Argus Array Hierarchical Data Processing System; Corbett et al., arXiv: 2207.14304
  • Transient Simulations for Radio Surveys; Chastain, van der Horst & Carbone, arXiv: 2208.00965
  • Coherent Time-Domain Canceling of Interference for Radio Astronomy; Ellingson & Buehrer, arXiv: 2208.04256
  • The Technological and Scientific Development of ASKAP; Koribalski, arXiv: 2208.08245
Magnetars and other relevant results
  • Do Pulsar and Fast Radio Burst Dispersion Measures Obey Benford's law? Mamidipaka & Desai, arXiv: 2207.09696
  • The Enigma of GLEAM-X~J162759.5-523504.3; Konar, arXiv: 2208.09805
  • Pulsar Double-Lensing Sheds Light on the Origin of Extreme Scattering Events; Hengrui Zhu et al., arXiv: 2208.06884
  • Three-Dimensional Magnetothermal Simulations of Magnetar Outbursts; De Grandis et al., arXiv: 2208.10178
Upcoming Meetings and Conferences

IAU GA 2022 / FRB2022: Recorded talks from the FRB2022 meeting at the IAU General Assembly are now publicly available on YouTube at the FRB2022 YouTube Channel.



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