FRB Newsletter Volume 04, Issue 2 - February 2023


Total FRB count: 654 (15 new)

Repeaters: 50

Host galaxies: 26 (2 new)

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From the Editors


February took your editors by surprise, but we're squeezing in this newsletter before the end of the month, barely. Happy MJD 60000 to all who celebrate, and thank you to our readers for bringing papers we might have missed to our attention. We hope you enjoy this action-packed edition of the newsletter!


Papers of Interest


Host Galaxies and Localizations

  • Discovery of an as-yet non-repeating fast radio burst with the hallmarks of a repeater; Caleb et al., arXiv: 2302.09754
  • FRB 20210405I: the first Fast Radio Burst sub-arcsecond localised with MeerKAT; Driessen et al., arXiv: 2302.09787

Observational Results

  • Revised constraints on the photon mass from well-localized fast radio bursts; Lin et al., arXiv: 2301.12103
  • The Demographics, Stellar Populations, and Star Formation Histories of Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies: Implications for the Progenitors; Gordon et al., arXiv: 2302.05465
  • Repeating fast radio bursts reveal memory from minutes to an hour; Wang et al., arXiv: 2302.06802
  • Revealing the Dynamic Magneto-ionic Environments of Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources through Multi-year Polarimetric Monitoring with CHIME/FRB; Mckinven et al., arXiv: 2302.08386
  • Consistent Constraints on the Equivalence Principle from localised Fast Radio Bursts; Reischke & Hagstotz, arXiv: 2302.10072
  • A sample of Fast Radio Bursts discovered and localised with MeerTRAP at the MeerKAT telescope; Jankowski et al., arXiv: 2302.10107
  • Probing the baryon mass fraction in IGM and its redshift evolution with fast radio bursts using Bayesian inference method; Lin & Zou, arXiv: 2302.10585
  • The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog; CHIME/FRB Collaboration, arXiv: 2106.04352; updated with an erratum affecting the sky rate.

Theory and Modeling

  • Multi-wavelength afterglow emission from bursts associated with magnetar flares and fast radio bursts; Wei et al., arXiv: 2301.10184
  • Coherent Curvature Radiation Spectrum by Dynamically Fluctuating Bunches in Magnetospheres; Yang & Zhang, arXiv: 2301.12125
  • Relativistic coronal mass ejections from magnetars; Sharma et al., arXiv: 2302.08848
  • Polarization of Fast Radio Bursts: radiation mechanisms and propagation effects; Qu & Zhang, arXiv: 2302.09697
  • Axion-mediated Transport of Fast Radio Bursts Originating in Inner Magnetospheres of Magnetars; Prabhu, arXiv: 2302.11645

Algorithms and Instrumentation

  • CELEBI: The CRAFT Effortless Localisation and Enhanced Burst Inspection Pipeline; Scott et al., arXiv: 2301.13484
  • Calculation and Uncertainty of Fast Radio Burst Structure Based on Smoothed Data; Sutinjo et al., arXiv: 2302.06220
  • Collaboration with Cellular Networks for RFI Cancellation at Radio Telescope; Chakraborty et al., arXiv: 2210.17083
  • Tied-Array Beam Localisation of Radio Transients and Pulsars; Bezuidenhout et al., arXiv: 2302.09812
  • Burst search method based on likelihood ratio in Poisson Statistics; Cai et al., arXiv: 2302.11755
  • Optimization and Commissioning of the EPIC Commensal Radio Transient Imager for the Long Wavelength Array; Krishnan et al., arXiv: 2301.09662

Magnetars and other relevant results

  • Reanalysis of the X-ray burst associated FRB 200428 with Insight-HXMT observations; Ge et al., arXiv: 2302.00176
  • The 2022 high-energy outburst and radio disappearing act of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408; Lower et al., arXiv: 2302.07397
  • Discovery of high frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillations in SGR 150228213; Chen et al., 2302.10533
  • A strong X-ray polarization signal from the magnetar 1RXS J170849.0-400910; Zane et al., 2301.12919

Upcoming Meetings and Conferences

Multi-wavelength follow-up of fast radio bursts in the era of routine (sub)arcsecond localizations: 25-26 April, 2023 in Toronto, Canada. Registration is now open until March 31. Details can be found on the conference website.


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FRB Newsletter: 2019 - 2023, produced by Shami Chatterjee, Kenzie Nimmo, and Emily Petroff.

We acknowledge support from the Cornell library, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the MIT Kavli Institute.


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