Boo! We have managed to squeeze in a late spooky edition of this newsletter just before the end of the month. There are a whole slew of papers, listed below, in the lead up to the annual FRB meeting. Unfortunately, political circumstances have led to this year's meeting (November 7-10) being converted to an entirely virtual one, but we expect that it will still serve as a forum for lots of exciting new results and we are looking forward to it!

Host Galaxies and Localizations

• Host Galaxies for Four Nearby CHIME/FRB Sources and the Local Universe FRB Host Galaxy Population; Bhardwaj et al., arXiv: 2310.10018

Observational Results

• A bright radio burst from FRB 20200120E in a globular cluster of the nearby galaxy M81; Zhang et al., arXiv: 2310.00908
• A Thorough Search for Short Timescale Periodicity in Five Repeating FRBs; Du et al., arXiv: 2310.08971
• Is the M81 Fast Radio Burst Host Globular Cluster Special?; Dage et al., arXiv: 2310.10328
• Observed Trends in FRB Population and Bi-modality in the Luminosity Density Distribution; Saini & Das Gupta, arXiv: 2310.11992
• Searching for strong gravitational lenses; Lemon et al., arXiv: 2310.13466
• Comprehensive Bayesian analysis of FRB-like bursts from SGR 1935+2154 observed by CHIME/FRB; Giri et al., arXiv: 2310.16932

Theory and Modeling

• Internal Shocks Hydrodynamics: the Collision of Two Cold Shells in Deta; Rahaman et al., arXiv: 2309.16327
• Escaping of Fast Radio Bursts; Lyutikov, arXiv: 2310.01177
• The Cosmic Baryon Partition between the IGM and CGM in the SIMBA Simulations; Khrykin et al., arXiv: 2310.01496
• Collective Thomson scattering in magnetized electron and positron pair plasma and the application to induced Compton scattering; Nishiura & Ioka, arXiv: 2310.02306
• Radiation Modes in FRB 20220912A Microshots and a Crab PSR nanoshot; Katz, arXiv: 2310.06173
• Rotating vector model and radius-to-frequency mapping in the presence of multipole magnetic field; Qiu et al., arXiv: 2310.07144
• Constraint on the relativistic motion of fast radio bursts based on the maximal electric field; Shen & Zou, arXiv: 2310.14183
• The physical origin of the periodic activity for FRB 20180916B; Lan et al., arXiv: 2310.16307
• Free electron laser in magnetically dominated regime: simulations with ONEDFEL code; Lyutikov & Freund, arXiv: 2310.17028

Algorithms, Instrumentation, and Data Access

• Enhanced Bayesian RFI Mitigation and Transient Flagging Using Likelihood Reweighting; Anstey & Leeney, arXiv: 2310.02146
• The Large Array Survey Telescope -- Pipeline. I. Basic image reduction and visit coaddition; Ofek et al., arXiv: 2310.13063

Magnetars and other relevant results

• Beyond profiles: Using log-normal distributions to model the multiphase circumgalactic medium; Dutta et al., arXiv: 2310.03717
• Discovery of a Radiation Component from the Vela Pulsar Reaching 20 Teraelectronvolts; H.E.S.S. Collaboration, arXiv: 2310.06181

"The extension of gamma-ray pulsation energies up to at least 20 teraelectronvolts (TeV) shows that Vela pulsar can accelerate particles to Lorentz factors higher than 4x10⁷. "

• A Cacophony of Echoes from daily monitoring of the Crab Pulsar at Jodrell Bank; Nadeau et al., arXiv: 2310.07007
• The warm-hot circumgalactic medium of the Milky Way as seen by eROSITA; Locatelli et al., arXiv: 2310.10715
• Preserving your skies since 1988 -- Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF) -- Periodic Review 2011-2021; Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies et al., arXiv: 2310.13407

• Radio emission was detected from the black hole low-mass X-ray binary Swift J1753.5-0127 with MeerKAT a few days after the source went into optical outburst, with a flux density of 0.17 mJy at 1.3 GHz [ATel 16281]. Radio emission from these systems is theorized to arise from compact relativistic jets.

We note a job advertisement that may be specifically relevant to the readers of this newsletter below:

• The University of Amsterdam's Anton Pannekoek Institute in the Netherlands is offering up to five PhD positions to work on FRBs and pulsar timing. Deadline is on November 6th 2023. More information can be found on the AAS job ad.

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