FRB Newsletter Volume 03, Issue 09 — September 2022

Total FRB count: 630 (2 new)
Repeaters: 24 (0 new)
Host galaxies: 20 (0 new)
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From the Editors

Summer is over in the Northern hemisphere, and fall is in the air for your East-coast editors. That means job application season for many places - if you have a position that might be of interest to our readership (over 650 at last count!), please send it along to us. Meanwhile, here is your regularly scheduled shot of FRB news and updates.

Papers of Interest

Host Galaxies and Localizations
  • A Fast Radio Burst Source at a Complex Magnetized Site in a Barred Galaxy; H. Xu et al., Nature; DOI: s41586-022-05071-8, previously covered in Vol. 2, Issue 11; arXiv: 2111.11764.

    Repeating Fast Radio Burst 20201124A Originates from a Magnetar/Be Star Binary; F. Y. Wang, Nature Communications; DOI: s41467-022-31923-y; arXiv: 2204.08124

Observational Results
  • The Ultra Narrow FRB20191107B, and the Origins of FRB Scattering; Gupta et al., arXiv: 2209.00311
  • The SPAN512 Mid-Latitude Pulsar Survey at the Nancay Radio Telescope; Desvignes et al., arXiv: 2209.01806
Theory and Modeling
  • Hints of a Universal Width-Energy Relation for Classified Fast Radio Bursts; Di Xiao & Zi-Gao Dai, arXiv: 2208.13972
  • Expanding Fireball in Magnetar Bursts and Fast Radio Bursts; Tomoki Wada & Kunihito Ioka, arXiv: 2208.14320
  • Symmetry Breaking in Repeating Fast Radio Bursts; Katz, arXiv: 2209.01700
  • A Measurement of Circumgalactic Gas around Nearby Galaxies using Fast Radio Bursts; Xiaohan Wu & Matthew McQuinn, arXiv: 2209.04455
  • Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with High Burst Rates by Plate Collisions in Neutron Star Crusts; Qiao-Chu Li et al., arXiv: 2209.04774
  • Rotation Measure Variations and Reversals of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts in Massive Binary Systems; Z. Y. Zhao et al., arXiv: 2209.05242
Algorithms and Instrumentation
  • SPARKESX: Single-dish PARKES Data Sets for Finding the UneXpected -- A data challenge; Suk Yee Yong et al., arXiv: 2209.03080
  • Investigation of a Machine Learning Methodology for the SKA Pulsar Search Pipeline; Bhat et al., arXiv: 2209.04430
  • The Transients Handler System for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory; Egberts et al., arXiv: 2209.05888
Magnetars and other relevant results
  • Plasma Lensing Near the Eclipses of the Black Widow Pulsar B1957+20; Fang Xi Lin et al., arXiv: 2208.13868
  • A Pilot ASKAP Survey for Radio Transients Towards the Galactic Centre; Ziteng Wang et al., arXiv: 2209.02352
  • CHIME Discovery of a Binary Pulsar with a Massive Non-Degenerate Companion; Andersen et al., arXiv: 2209.06895
  • The Game of Life on a Magnetar Crust: From Gamma-ray Flares to FRBs; Lander, arXiv: 2209.08598
  • Direct Emission of Strong Radio Pulses During Magnetar Flares; Thompson, arXiv: 2209.11136
  • Constraints on Extragalactic Transmitters via Breakthrough Listen; Garrett & Siemion, arXiv: 2209.08147
  • Structure in the Magnetic Field of the Milky Way Disk and Halo traced by Faraday Rotation; Dickey et al., arXiv: 2209.10819
From the Astronomer's Telegram
  • FRB 121102 (or 20121102A, to be precise) is back, with detections at FAST consistent with the proposed periodicity of detectability windows. Intriguingly, the observed dispersion measure has dropped by ~10 pc/cc, a significant 2% reduction (ATel 15619).
Relevant Job Listings

-- Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astronomical Observation or Computation. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Application deadline 1 November, 2022. AAS Job Register
-- Jansky Fellowship. Socorro, NM, or Charlottesville, VA, United States. Application deadline 1 November, 2022. AAS Job Register
-- NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP)- 2023. Location variable. Application deadline 3 November, 2022. AAS Job Register
-- CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Application deadline 28 October, 2022. AAS Job Register
-- CIERA Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. Deadline 22 November, 2022. AAS Job Register

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FRB Newsletter: 2019—2022, produced by Emily Petroff and Shami Chatterjee
We acknowledge support from the Cornell library, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and McGill University.

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