Another month, another edition of the FRB Newsletter squeezing in just under the wire. Grab a cup of coffee (or whatever floats your boat), pull up your chair, and enjoy!

Reviews

• The discovery and significance of fast radio bursts; Lorimer et al., arXiv: 2405.19106

Observational Results

• A Radio Study of Persistent Radio Sources in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies: Implications for Fast Radio Bursts; Dong et al., arXiv: 2405.00784
• The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project IV. Multiwavelength study of the actively repeating FRB 20220912A; Pelliciari et al., arXiv: 2405.04802
• Birth and Evolution of Fast Radio Bursts: Strong Population-Based Evidence for a Neutron-Star Origin; Wang & van Leeuwen, arXiv: 2405.06281
• Low-frequency, wideband study of an active repeater, FRB 20240114A, with the GMRT; Panda et al., arXiv: 2405.09749
• Towards solving the origin of circular polarisation in FRB 20180301A; Uttarkar et al., arXiv: 2405.11515
• A Heavily Scattered Fast Radio Burst Is Viewed Through Multiple Galaxy Halos; Faber et al., arXiv: 2405.14182

Theory and Modeling

• Alfven Wave Conversion to Low Frequency Fast Magnetosonic Waves in Magnetar Magnetospheres; Bernardi et al., arXiv: 2405.02199
• Magnetar Eruptions and Electromagnetic Fireworks; Mahlmann, arXiv: 2405.02773
• Orbital and Precession Periods in Repeating FRB 20121102A; Katz, arXiv: 2405.03721
• Time Delay Anomalies of Fuzzy Gravitational Lenses; Liu et al., arXiv: 2405.04779
• On the energy budget of starquake-induced repeating fast radio bursts; Wang et al., arXiv: 2405.07152
• A Generic Model for Persistent Radio Source around Fast Radio Bursts; Chen & Tong, arXiv: 2405.07446
• Periodic Activities of Fast Radio Burst Repeaters from Precessing Magnetars with Evolving Obliquity; Feng et al., arXiv: 2405.08326
• Multiwavelength Radiation from the Interaction between Magnetar Bursts and Companion Star in a Binary System; Wei et al., arXiv: 2405.10791
• Force-free wave interaction in magnetar magnetospheres: Computational modeling in axisymmetry; Mahlmann et al., arXiv: 2405.12272

Algorithms, Instrumentation, and Data Access

• Galactic transient sources with the Cherenkov Telescope Array; Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium; arXiv: 2405.04469
• A Fast Radio Burst monitor with a Compact All-Sky Phased Array (CASPA); Luo et al., arXiv: 2405.07439
• High-Time Resolution GPU Imager for FRB searches at low radio frequencies; Sokolowski et al., arXiv: 2405.13478
• Radio Frequency Interference from Radio Navigation Satellite Systems: simulations and comparison to MeerKAT single-dish data; Engelbrecht et al., arXiv: 2404.17908

Magnetars and other relevant results

• Exploring the neutron star zoo: An observational review; Borghese, arXiv: 2405.02368
• Probing the spectrum of the magnetar 4U 0142+61 with JWST; Hare et al., arXiv: 2405.03947
• Spectrum and polarization of the Galactic center radio transient ASKAP J173608.2-321635 from THOR-GC and VLITE; Weatherhead et al., arXiv: 2405.13183

• As mentioned in the 2024 April edition of this Newsletter, observatories around the world continue to observe FRB 20240114A since its discovery by CHIME/FRB (ATel 16420). The redshift of the previously identified host galaxy has now been measured to be z=0.13 (ATel 16613). Multiple bursts have been detected at Effelsberg, in some cases extending all the way up to 6.0 GHz (ATel 16620). There is also another claim of a potential gamma ray excess and flare with archival Fermi LAT data (ATel 16630; but see discussion in the previous edition of the Newsletter and ATel 16602).

• In the April 2024 edition of this Newsletter we mentioned the Seventeenth Marcel Grossmann meeting being held in Pescara, Italy, on 7-12 July 2024. In addition to the "Galactic and extragalactic magnetars" parallel session, there will also be a parallel session on Fast Radio Bursts! But hurry, the abstract submission deadline is quickly approaching: May 31, 2024.
• RFI 2024 is being held in Bariloche, Argentina on October 14-18, 2024. Abstract deadline is July 1, 2024.

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

• Postdoctoral position "Probing Fast Radio Bursts with SPOTLIGHT at the GMRT"; The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Soft application deadline: May 31, 2024.

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