FRB Newsletter Volume 04, Issue 07 — July 2023

Total FRB count: 675 (3 new)
Repeaters: 50
Host galaxies: 39 (12 new)
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From the Editors

This month saw the coordinated data releases from NANOGrav and the European, Indian, Parkes (Australian), and Chinese Pulsar Timing Arrays, with evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background at low frequencies. We congratulate our colleagues on this long-awaited milestone! We also have the first batch of FRB discoveries and host galaxy identifications from the DSA-110, and as usual, much more for our readers to enjoy.

Papers of Interest

Host Galaxies and Localizations
  • Deep Synoptic Array Science: First FRB and Host Galaxy Catalog; Law et al., arXiv: 2307.03344
  • A fast radio burst localized at detection to a galactic disk using very long baseline interferometry; Cassanelli et al., arXiv: 2307.09502
Observational Results
  • Connecting repeating and non-repeating fast radio bursts via their energy distributions; Kirsten et al., arXiv: 2306.15505
  • Modelling repetition in zDM: a single population of repeating fast radio bursts can explain CHIME data; James, arXiv: 2306.17403
  • Statistical properties and lensing effect on the repeating fast radio burst FRB 180916.J0158+65; Wang et al., arXiv: 2307.02230
  • Microsecond-duration bursts from FRB 20121102A; Snelders et al., arXiv: 2307.02303
  • Machine Learning Classification of Repeating FRBs from FRB121102; Raquel et al., arXiv: 2307.02811
  • An X-ray Census of Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies: Constraints on AGN and X-ray Counterparts; Eftekhari et al., arXiv: 2307.03766
  • Cosmography from well-localized Fast Radio Bursts; Fortunato et al., arXiv: 2307.04711
  • Do All Fast Radio Bursts Repeat? Constraints from CHIME/FRB Far Side-Lobe FRBs; Lin et al., arXiv: 2307.05261
  • Constraints on the Intergalactic and Local Dispersion Measure of Fast Radio Bursts with the CHIME/FRB far side-lobe events; Lin et al., arXiv: 2307.05262
  • A CHIME/FRB study of burst rate and morphological evolution of the periodically repeating FRB 20180916B; Sand et al., arXiv: 2307.05839
  • Mapping Obscured Star Formation in the Host Galaxy of FRB 20201124A; Dong et al., arXiv: 2307.06995
  • A Measurement of Hubble Constant Using Cosmographic Approach from Fast Radio Bursts and SNe Ia; Gao et al., arXiv: 2307.08285
Theory and Modeling
  • Gravitational Collapse of White Dwarfs to Neutron Stars. I. From Initial Conditions to Explosions with Neutrino-radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations; Mori et al., arXiv: 2306.17381
  • Cosmology with fast radio bursts in the era of SKA; Zhang et al., arXiv: 2307.01605
  • Event Rate of Fast Radio Burst from Binary Neutron-star Mergers; Chen et al., arXiv: 2307.02111
  • Forecasting constraints on the baryon mass fraction in the IGM from fast radio bursts and type Ia supernovae; Lemos et al., arXiv: 2307.06911
Algorithms and Instrumentation
  • Deep learning-based deconvolution for interferometric radio transient reconstruction; Chiche et al., arXiv: 2306.13909
Magnetars and other relevant results
  • A new method for short duration transient detection in radio images: Searching for transient sources in MeerKAT data of NGC 5068; Fijma et al., arXiv: 2306.16383
  • The 2021 X-ray outburst of magnetar SGR J1935+2154 -- I. Spectral properties; Xie et al., arXiv: 2307.01010
  • Rotation measure variations in Galactic Centre pulsars; Abbate et al., arXiv: 2307.03230
  • Metallicity beats sSFR: The connection between superluminous supernova host galaxy environments and the importance of metallicity for their production; Cleland et al., arXiv: 2307.06368
  • The Minimum Variation Timescales of X-ray bursts from SGR J1935+2154; Xiao et al., arXiv: 2307.07079
  • Discovery of a magnetar candidate X-ray pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud; Imbrogno et al., arXiv: 2307.09224
  • On Detecting Interstellar Scintillation in Narrowband Radio SETI; Brzycki et al., arXiv: 2307.08793
From the Astronomer's Telegram
  • Four new bursts from FRB 20220912A were detected with the Medicina Northern Cross at 408 MHz in daily monitoring observations. These are the first reported re-detections [ATel 16130] of this previously very active source since the start of the campaign in 2023 May, possibly suggesting renewed activity. (See also, the public CHIME VOEvents for this source.)
Meetings and conference news

  • The abstract submission deadline for FRB 2023 (Bhopal, India, 2023 November 6-10) is coming up soon, on July 31st. The deadline for the payment of fees is on September 30th (although per the organizers, if you've requested financial aid, please wait for decisions on those requests before paying). More information can be found on the conference website.

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