FRB Newsletter Volume 04, Issue 04 — April 2023

Total FRB count: 670 (8 new)
Repeaters: 50
Host galaxies: 27
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From the Editors

Welcome to another issue of the FRB Newsletter, where one of your editors is reporting live from the Multiwavelength Follow-Up of FRBs workshop in Toronto, Canada. As usual, we welcome your pointers to publications, conference announcements, job listings, and other items that might be relevant to our 700+ readers! Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy this round-up.

Papers of Interest

Host Galaxies and Localizations
  • Proposed host galaxies of repeating fast radio burst sources detected by CHIME/FRB; Ibik et al., arXiv: 2304.02638
Observational Results
  • Classifying a frequently repeating fast radio burst, FRB 20201124A, with unsupervised machine learning; Chen et al., arXiv: 2303.17133
  • Spectro-Polarimetric variability in the repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20180301A; Kumar et al., arXiv: 2304.01763
  • Constraining the Molecular Gas Content of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) Host Galaxies; Chittidi et al., arXiv: 2304.10377
  • The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project -- III. The FRB-magnetar connection in a sample of nearby galaxies; Pelliciari et al., arXiv: 2304.11179
Theory and Modeling
  • Deja-vu et Deja-entendu: Associating fast radio bursts with compact binary mergers via gravitational lensing; Singh et al., arXiv: 2304.02879
  • Wave Mechanics, Interference, and Decoherence in Strong Gravitational Lensing; Leung et al., arXiv: 2304.01202
  • Kinetic Simulations of the Filamentation Instability in Pair Plasmas; Iwamoto et al., arXiv: 2304.03577
  • Future Constraints on Dark Matter with Gravitationally Lensed Fast Radio Bursts Detected by BURSTT; Ho et al., arXiv: 2304.04990
  • Neutron star phase transition as the origin for the fast radio bursts and soft gamma-ray repeaters of SGR J1935+2154; Shen et al., arXiv: 2304.10871
Algorithms and Instrumentation
  • Processing System for Coherent Dedispersion of Pulsar Radio Emission; Girin et al., arXiv: 2303.17280
  • TONE: A CHIME/FRB Outrigger Pathfinder for localizations of Fast Radio Bursts using Very Long Baseline Interferometry; Sanghavi et al., arXiv: 2304.10534
  • The Large Array Survey Telescope -- System Overview and Performances; Ofek et al., arXiv: 2304.04796
Magnetars and other relevant results
  • Coherent radio bursts from known M-dwarf planet host YZ Ceti; Pineda & Villadsen, arXiv: 2304.00031
  • Disentangling the Faraday rotation sky; Hutschenreuter et al., arXiv: 2304.12350
From the Astronomer's Telegram

  • Ongoing FAST monitoring of FRB 20121102A shows that the rotation measure continues its steady decline. The authors report an observed RM of 3.1E4 rad m^-2, implying an average annual decline of 1E4 rad m^-2 per year since 2019 (ATel 15980, 15981).

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