We have a monster issue on our hands this time, with a bumper crop of papers, a highly active repeating FRB, and the return of SGR 1935+2154 in radio bursts. We also welcome Kenzie Nimmo to the editorial team. She will be taking on a more active role as Emily Petroff transitions to an Editor Emeritus status. (We don't yet know what that means, but we'll be figuring it out!) Meanwhile, enjoy this issue of the newsletter.

Host Galaxies and Localizations

• Probing the Distant Universe with a Very Luminous Fast Radio Burst at Redshift 1; Ryder et al., arXiv: 2210.04680

Observational Results

• Fast Radio Bursts as Probes of Magnetic Fields in Galaxies at z < 0.5; Mannings et al., arXiv: 2209.15113
• A Broad Survey of Spectro-Temporal Properties from FRB20121102A; Chamma et al., arXiv: 2210.00106
• Scattering Variability Detected from the Circumsource Medium of FRB 20190520B; Ocker et al., arXiv: 2210.01975
• FAST Observations of an Extremely Active Episode of FRB 20201124A: I. Burst Morphology; D. J. Zhou et al., arXiv: 2210.03607
• FAST Observations of an Extremely Active Episode of FRB 20201124A: II. Energy Distribution; Yong-Kun Zhang et al., arXiv: 2210.03645
• FAST Observations of an Extremely Active Episode of FRB 20201124A: III. Polarimetry; Jin-Chen Jiang et al., arXiv: 2210.03609
• FAST Observations of an Extremely Active Episode of FRB 20201124A: IV. Spin Period Search; Jia-Rui Niu et al., arXiv: 2210.03610

Theory and Modeling

• Modelling the Energy Distribution in CHIME/FRB Catalog-1; Bhattacharyya et al., arXiv: 2209.12961
• One-off and Repeating Fast Radio Bursts: A Statistical Analysis; Hao-Yan Chen et al., arXiv: 2209.13943
• FRB-SRB-XRB: Geometric and Relativistic Beaming Constraints of Fast Radio Bursts from the Galactic Magnetar SGR J1935+2154; Connery J. Chen & Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2210.01904
• Luminosity Distribution of Fast Radio Bursts from CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 by Means of the Updated Macquart Relation; Xiang-Han Cui et al., arXiv: 2210.02290
• Polarisation of Magnetospheric Curvature Radiation in Repeating Fast Radio Bursts; Wei-Yang Wang et al., arXiv: 2210.04401
• Prospects for Detecting Fast Radio Bursts in Globular Clusters of Nearby Galaxies; Kremer et al., arXiv: 2210.04907
• Cosmological-Model-Independent Determination of Hubble Constant from Fast Radio Bursts and Hubble Parameter Measurements; Yang Liu, Hongwei Yu & Puxun Wu, arXiv: 2210.05202
• Solar System-Scale Interferometry on Fast Radio Bursts Could Measure Cosmic Distances with Sub-Percent Precision; Boone & McQuinn, arXiv: 2210.07159
• Probing the Interaction Between Dark Energy and Dark Matter with Future Fast Radio Burst Observations; Ze-Wei Zhao et al., arXiv: 2210.07162
• Saturation of the Filamentation Instability and Dispersion Measure of Fast Radio Bursts; Sobacchi et al., arXiv: 2210.08754
• The Effect of Gravitational Lensing on Fast Transient Event Rates; Sammons et al., arXiv: 2210.09487
• An Intermediate-field Fast Radio Burst Model and the Quasi-periodic Oscillation; Jie-Shuang Wang et al., arXiv: 2210.09930
• Propagation of a Strong Fast Magnetosonic Wave in the Magnetosphere of a Neutron Star; Alexander Y. Chen et al., arXiv: 2210.13506
• The Dispersion Measure of Fast Radio Bursts Host Galaxies: Estimation from Cosmological Simulations; Jian-Feng Mo et al., arXiv: 2210.14052
• Monster Radiative Shocks in the Perturbed Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars; Beloborodov, arXiv: 2210.13509

Algorithms and Instrumentation

• Machine Learning Classification of Fast Radio Bursts: I. Supervised Methods; Jia-Wei Luo, Jia-Ming Zhu-Ge & Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2210.02463
• Machine Learning Classification of Fast Radio Bursts: II. Unsupervised Methods; Jia-Ming Zhu-Ge, Jia-Wei Luo & Bing Zhang, arXiv: 2210.02471
• A Fast Transient Backend to Detect FRBs with the Tianlai Dish Pathfinder Array; Zijie Yu et al., arXiv: 2210.03272
• Sciences with Thai National Radio Telescope; Phrudth Jaroenjittichai et al., arXiv: 2210.04926
• Detection Rate of Fast Radio Bursts in the Milky Way with BURSTT; Decmend Fang-Jie Ling et al., arXiv: 2210.11077

Magnetars and other relevant results

• Constraining the Nature of the 18-min Periodic Radio Transient GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3 via Multi-Wavelength Observations and Magneto-Thermal Simulations; Rea et al., arXiv: 2210.01903
• TRAPUM upper limits on pulsed radio emission for SMC X-ray pulsar J0058-7218; Carli et al., arXiv: 2210.04785
• Testing Afterglow Models of FRB 200428 with Early Post-Burst Observations of SGR 1935+2154; Cooper et al., arXiv: 2210.06547
• The Second Set of Pulsar Discoveries by CHIME/FRB/Pulsar: 14 Rotating Radio Transients and 7 Pulsars; Dong et al., arXiv: 2210.09172
• Evidence for an Abundant Old Population of Galactic Ultra Long Period Magnetars and Implications for Fast Radio Bursts; Beniamini et al., arXiv: 2210.09323
• Magnetar Spin-Down Glitch Clearing the Way for FRB-like Bursts and a Pulsed Radio Episode; Younes et al., arXiv: 2210.11518
• Does the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 harbour a magnetar? Suvorov & Glampedakis, arXiv: 2210.09471

  "The system has released two soft-gamma flares in the past, suggesting a magnetar interpretation for the compact primary. This inference has recently gained significant traction following the discovery of transient radio pulses, detected in some orbital phases from the system..."

• Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data from the third observing run; LIGO, VIRGO, and KAGRA Collaborations, arXiv: 2210.10931

• FRB 20220912A, a repeating fast radio burst source recently discovered by CHIME, appears to currently be extremely active. After the CHIME announcement (ATel 15679), detections have been reported by a variety of telescopes at bands ranging from 111 MHz to 1900 MHz, (ATel 15691, 15695, 15713, 15723), with burst rates at the GBT approaching 100 per hour. The DSA-110 has reported a candidate host galaxy with a spectroscopic redshift z=0.077 (ATels 15693, 15716, 15720).
• In a cosmic coincidence, SGR 1935+2154 has also entered a phase of high activity at high energies (GCN 32675 and others), and a radio burst has been detected again by CHIME (ATel 15681). The far-sidelobe detection has a lower limit fluence of 20 kJy-ms at 600 MHz, and may have extended up to 5.6 GHz based on reported detections from the GBT (ATel 15697). A possible X-ray counterpart to the radio burst has also been reported (ATel 15682, 15686, 15708). (For reference, the first CHIME detection of this source in 2020 had a fluence >700 kJy-ms.) Radio bursts have also been reported at the Yunnan 40-m telescope at 2.2 GHz, but with an offset in DM (ATel 15707).