Welcome to the FRB community newsletter. Our goal is to select and summarize recent results relevant to FRB researchers, both observational and theoretical, as well as to provide a curated selection of other relevant scientific news items, conferences, and more. We will aim to be:

• timely and topical,
• brief,
• and archival,

such that the newsletter provides a monthly snapshot summary of the state of the field for the duration of this project.

We welcome your feedback, opinions, suggestions for items to post, news tips, etc.
- Emily Petroff and Shami Chatterjee, editors.

• Editors' note. This issue includes items from the first nine months of 2019. We anticipate future issues will be much shorter.
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Recent Reviews

• Fast Radio Bursts, review by Petroff, Hessels, and Lorimer (The Astronomy & Astrophysics Review; arXiv:1904.07947)
• Fast Radio Bursts: An Extragalactic Enigma, review by Cordes and Chatterjee (Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics; arXiv:1906.05878)

Localizations and Host Galaxies

• A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance, Bannister et al., arXiv:1906.11476
• A fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy, Ravi et al., DOI:10.1038/s41586-019-1389-7
• The low density and magnetization of a massive galaxy halo exposed by a fast radio burst, Prochaska et al., arXiv:1909.11681

Other Observational Results

• A fast radio burst with frequency-dependent polarization detected during Breakthrough Listen observations, Price et al. arXiv:1901.07412
• Five new real-time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST, Farah et al. arXiv:1905.02293
• CHIME/FRB detection of the original repeating fast radio burst source FRB 121102, Josephy et al., arXiv:1906.11305
• CHIME/FRB detection of eight new repeating fast radio burst sources, CHIME/FRB Collaboration, arXiv:1908.03507
• Faint repetitions from a bright fast radio burst source, Kumar et al., arXiv:1908.10026 (Also detected at CHIME, see ATel 13013)
• A fast radio burst in the direction of the Virgo cluster, Agarwal et al., arXiv:1909.05779
• A search for short-term hard X-ray bursts in the direction of the repeating FRB 121102, Sun et al., arXiv:1909.07626
• A deep targeted search for fast radio bursts from the sites of low-redshift short gamma-ray bursts, Madison et al., arXiv:1909.11682

Theory and Modeling

• Repeating fast radio bursts from magnetars with low magnetospheric twist, Wadiasingh and Timokhin, arXiv:1904.12036
• Interpreting the distributions of FRB observables, Connor, arXiv:1905.00755
• Fast radio burst injection tests, Keane and Walker, arXiv:1907.07948
• Periodic fast radio bursts from young neutron stars, Munoz, Ravi, and Loeb, arXiv:1909.00004
• The Galactic halo contribution to the dispersion measure of extragalactic fast radio bursts, Yamasaki and Totani, arXiv:1909.00849
• Blast waves from magnetar flares and fast radio bursts, Beloborodov, arXiv:1908.07743
• Radius-to-frequency mapping and FRB frequency drifts, Lyutikov, arXiv:1909.10409

• FRB 121102 has been active again - or at least, has had several redetections, including at the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST; ATel 13064), the Haoping 40-m telescope (ATel 13090), and MeerKAT (ATel 13098), among others. There are coeval upper limits from INTEGRAL at X-rays (ATel 13073) and UKIRT in the NIR (ATel 13075).
• ASKAP has announced two FRB detections in the past few months: FRB 190711 (ATel 12922) and FRB 190714 (ATel 12940).
• UMOST has reported the detection of FRB 190806 (ATel 12995).
• CHIME has redetected the ASKAP FRB 171019 (ATel 13013); this FRB has now been detected at ASKAP (1.1-1.4 GHz), Green Bank (0.7-0.9 GHz; Kumar et al. above), and CHIME (0.6-0.8 GHz).
• The MWA (139-170 MHz) shadowed the UTMOST detection of FRB 190806 reported earlier this year (see above) and reports upper limits on low frequency radio emission from this source (ATel 13121).

FRB2020: Registration is now open for FRB2020 to be held in Khao Lak, Thailand. This meeting will aim to cover all aspects of FRB science and is limited to ~150 participants. Please see the meeting webpage for more details.

-- Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia: Lecturer - FRB Research, AAS Job Register
-- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada - Dunlap Fellowship, AAS Job Register
-- University of Cape Town, South Africa - Post-doctoral position working on cosmological applications of FRBs, also with the MeerTRAP team at the University of Manchester. Contact Amanda.Weltman__at__uct.ac.za for more information.
-- Green Bank Telescope, Green Bank, WV, USA - Staff scientist, AAS Job Register

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