FRB Newsletter Volume 03, Issue 12 — December 2022

Total FRB count: 638 (2 new)
Repeaters: 25
Host galaxies: 23 (1 new)
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From the Editors

It's been another eventful year for fast radio bursts, with a broad range of interesting and unexpected results. Here's our final round-up of links and news for the year. Past issues of the FRB newsletter can be found in the newsletter archive. We wish all our readers a happy holiday season and all the best for the new year, and we look forward to another exciting year ahead!

Papers of Interest

Reviews
  • The Physics of Fast Radio Bursts; Zhang, arXiv: 2212.03972
Host Galaxies and Localizations
  • A non-repeating fast radio burst in a dwarf host galaxy; Bhandari et al., arXiv: 2211.16790
Observational Results
  • A targeted search for repeating fast radio bursts with the MWA; Tian et al., arXiv: 2211.11945
  • Image plane detection of FRB121102 with the MeerKAT radio telescope; Andrianjafy et al., arXiv: 2211.12257
  • Detection of a bright burst from the repeating FRB 20201124A at 2 GHz; Ikebe et al., arXiv: 2211.13835
  • An assessment of the Association Between a Fast Radio Burst and Binary Neutron Star Merger; Moroianu et al., arXiv: 2212.00201
  • The most probable host of CHIME FRB 190425A, associated with binary neutron star merger GW190425, and a late-time transient search; Panther et al., arXiv: 2212.00954
  • The molecular gas kinematics in the host galaxy of non-repeating FRB 180924B; Hsu et al., arXiv: 2212.04027
  • Modelling Annual Scintillation Velocity Variations of FRB 20201124A; Main et al., arXiv: 2212.04839
  • Power-law distribution and scale-invariant structure from the first CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst catalog; Wang et al., arXiv: 2212.05229
  • A Comprehensive Analysis on Repeating Fast Radio Bursts; Hu et al., arXiv: 2212.05242
  • Circular Polarization in two Active Repeating Fast Radio Bursts; Feng et al., arXiv: 2212.05873
  • A Search for Coincident Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Seven Years of IceCube Cascade Events; Abbasi et al., arXiv: 2212.06702
Theory and Modeling
  • Repeating fast radio bursts produced by a strange star interacting with its planet in an eccentric orbit; Nurmamat et al., arXiv: 2211.12026
Algorithms and Instrumentation
  • Daksha: On Alert for High Energy Transients; Bhalerao et al., arXiv: 2211.12055
  • Science with the Daksha High Energy Transients Mission; Bhalerao et al., arXiv: 2211.12052
Magnetars and other relevant results
  • Peering into the Milky Way by FAST: III. Magnetic fields in the Galactic halo and farther spiral arms revealed by the Faraday effect of faint pulsars; Xu et al., arXiv: 2211.11302
  • Precession of magnetars: dynamical evolutions and modulations on polarized electromagnetic waves; Gao et al., arXiv: 2211.17087
From the Astronomer's Telegram
  • FRB 20221128A was detected with the N-S arm of UTMOST at 835 MHz (ATel 15783).
  • A radio burst was detected from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 in a far sidelobe of CHIME, with a lower limit fluence of 14 kJy-ms at 600 MHz (ATel 15792). A search for gamma ray counterparts to that burst led to the identification of a sub-threshold event in Fermi GBM at 10-100 keV, one second in advance of the CHIME detection (ATel 15794).
  • FRB 20220912A continues to be active, with detections of three bursts at Jodrell Bank at 1.4 GHz and 2 bursts at DSS-63 at 2.2 GHz (ATel 15791), over a hundred bursts at the uGMRT at 300-800 MHz (ATel 15806), and four bursts at Westerbork at 330 MHz (ATel 15817).
Meetings and Conference News

There are a number of potentially relevant meetings coming up in the new year, including:
Relevant Job Listings

We note a few job advertisements that may be specifically relevant to the readers of this newsletter below:
  • Postdoctoral position for intergalactic medium studies using fast radio bursts, Physics Institute at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile. Deadline 31 December 2022. AAS Job Register
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Fast Radio Bursts, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Deadline 16 January, 2023. AAS Job Register
  • Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Radio Transients (for PhD students), University of Sydney, Australia. Deadline 18 January, 2023. Job ad

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