From the Editors
This equinox edition of the Newsletter is packed, and we draw your attention to a couple of unusual inclusions: a set of recollections from the discovery of the first millisecond pulsar, and the unhappy detection of out-of-band emission from second generation Starlink satellites at 60 MHz which appears to be as bright as 1300 Jy (not a typo). Yikes!
Papers of Interest
Reviews
- Statistical properties and cosmological applications of fast radio bursts; Wu & Wang, arXiv: 2409.13247
Observational Results
- The Fast Radio Burst Population Energy Distribution; Arcus et al., arXiv: 2408.09351
- Detection and localisation of the highly active FRB 20240114A with MeerKAT; Tian et al., arXiv: 2408.10988
- Positive and unlabelled machine learning reveals new fast radio burst repeater candidates; Sharma & Rajpaul; arXiv: 2408.11436
- Contemporaneous X-ray Observations of 30 Bright Radio Bursts from the Prolific Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20220912A; Cook et al., arXiv: 2408.11895
- An image-based blind search for Fast Radio Bursts in 88 hours of data from the EoR0 Field, with the Murchison Widefield Array; Kemp et al., arXiv: 2408.12200
- FRB 20121102A monitoring: updated periodicity at L-band; Braga et al., arXiv: 2408.12567
- FRB Line-of-sight Ionization Measurement From Lightcone AAOmega Mapping Survey: the First Data Release; Huang et al., arXiv: 2408.12864
- Checking the Empirical Relations with the Current Localized Fast Radio Bursts; Li et al., arXiv: 2408.12983
- Morphology of 137 Fast Radio Bursts down to Microseconds Timescales from The First CHIME/FRB Baseband Catalog; Sand et al., arXiv: 2408.13215
- Eighteen new fast radio bursts in the High Time Resolution Universe survey; Trudu et al., arXiv: 2408.14384
- The CRAFT Coherent (CRACO) upgrade I: System Description and Results of the 110-ms Radio Transient Pilot Survey; Wang et al., arXiv: 2409.10316
- A search for persistent radio sources toward repeating fast radio bursts discovered by CHIME/FRB; Ibik et al., arXiv: 2409.11533
- Rotation Measure study of FRB 20180916B with the uGMRT; Bethapudi et al., arXiv: 2409.12584
- The Variability of Persistent Radio Sources of Fast Radio Bursts; Yang et al., arXiv: 2409.13170
Theory and Modeling
- Stokes phenomena in lensing; Shi, arXiv: 2408.17043
- Forecasts for Helium Reionization Detection with Fast Radio Bursts in the Era of Square Kilometre Array; Wei & Gao, arXiv: 2409.01543
- Asking Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) for More than Reionization History; Shaw et al., arXiv: 2409.03255
- Propagation of strong electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas; Sobacchi et al., arXiv: 2409.04127
- GLoW: novel methods for wave-optics phenomena in gravitational lensing; Villarrubia-Rojo et al., arXiv: 2409.04606
- The Dispersion Relation of Massive Photons in Plasma: A Comment on "Bounding the Photon Mass with Ultrawide Bandwidth Pulsar Timing Data and Dedispersed Pulses of Fast Radio Bursts"; Wang & Wei, arXiv: 2409.04672
- Escape of fast radio bursts from magnetars; Sobacchi et al., arXiv: 2409.10732
- Fast radio bursts as a probe of gravity on cosmological scales; Neumann et al., arXiv: 2409.11163
- The Twisting of Radio Waves in a Randomly Inhomogeneous Plasma; Zhang & Liu, arXiv: 2409.12365
- Novel understanding of Cosmological Phenomena using Fast Radio Bursts; Kalita et al., arXiv: 2409.15526
Algorithms, Instrumentation, and Data Access
- The FAST Core Array; Jiang et al., arXiv: 2408.12826
- Key Science Goals for the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA): Update from the ngVLA Science Advisory Council (2024); Wilner et al., arXiv: 2408.14497
- GRANDProto300: status, science case, and prospects; Chiche, arXiv: 2409.02195
"...a planned radio array of 300 antennas over 200 km2 that will be deployed in the radio-quiet location of Xiao Dushan (China) by ~2026..."
- The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Systematic Transient Search of Single Observation Maps; Biermann et al., arXiv: 2409.08429
- Exploring the Key Features of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with Machine Learning; Sun et al., arXiv: 2409.11173
- Bright unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-generation Starlink satellites; Bassa et al., arXiv: 2409.11767
"We report on the detection of unintended electromagnetic radiation (UEMR) from the second-generation of Starlink satellites. Observations with the LOFAR radio telescope... show broadband emission... varies from satellite to satellite, with values ranging from 15Jy to 1300Jy, between 56 and 66MHz... the second-generation satellites emit UEMR that is up to a factor of 32 stronger compared to the first generation."
Magnetars and other relevant results
- X-ray hardening preceding the onset of SGR 1935+2154's radio pulsar phase; Wang et al., arXiv: 2308.08832
- Correct criterion of crustal failure driven by intense magnetic stress in neutron stars; Kojima, arXiv: 2408.14100
- A 2.9-hour periodic radio transient with an optical counterpart; Hurley-Walker et al., arXiv: 2408.15757
- Magnetic Interaction in White Dwarf Binaries as Mechanism for Long-Period Radio Transients; Qu & Zhang, arXiv: 2409.05978
- Extragalactic Magnetar Giant Flare GRB 231115A: Insights from Fermi/GBM Observations; Trigg et al., arXiv: 2409.06056
- A VLBI Calibrator Grid at 600MHz for Fast Radio Transient Localizations with CHIME/FRB Outriggers; Andrew et al., arXiv: 2409.11476
Historical perspective: the discovery of the first MSP
- The Crucial First Step in the Discovery of Millisecond Pulsars; Readhead, arXiv: 2406.17164
- The Discovery of Millisecond Pulsars: Don Backer and the Response to the Unexpected; Demorest & Goss, arXiv: 2407.18194
- The Discovery of the First Millisecond Pulsar: Personal Recollections; Kulkarni, arXiv: 2409.07540
From the Astronomer's Telegram
- An updated position for the repeating FRB 20240316A has been reported (ATel 16780) using baseband data from CHIME at 600 MHz, along with additional bursts.
- The Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1E 1841-045 associated with the Kes 73 supernova remnant has undergone a burst of activity, with detections with the Swift BAT (ATel 16784), Fermi GBM (ATel 16786), NICER, NuSTAR, and Swift XRT, among others (ATels 16789, 16802). No radio bursts were detected so far in FAST observations at 1.2 GHz (ATel 16799). IceCube also reported an upper limit for neutrino emission associated with the outburst (ATel 16816).
- An X-ray flare was detected by Swift/XRT from the Galactic Center, nominally consistent with the position of Sgr A* (ATel 16785).
- A potential persistent radio source associated with FRB 20240114A had been reported with MeerKAT observations (see previous Newsletter); uGMRT observations at 650 MHz confirm a 66 microJy radio source at that location (ATel 16820), although its compactness and association with the FRB remain to be verified.
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