If you need a distraction from current events, how about some FRB news? Here's a quick round up, including the first announcement for the FRB 2025 meeting, being planned for in Montreal in 2025 July.

Reviews

• Gravitational lensing: towards combining the multi-messengers; More & Phurailatpam, arXiv: 2502.02536
• Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era; Burns et al., arXiv: 2502.03577
• The zoo of isolated neutron stars; Borghese & Zelati, arXiv: 2502.17652

Observational Results

• The Host Galaxy of the Hyper-Active Repeating FRB 20240114A: Behind a Galaxy Cluster; Chen et al., arXiv: 2502.05587
• Contemporaneous optical-radio observations of a fast radio burst in a close galaxy pair; Hanmer et al., arXiv: 2502.10153
• A Possible Four-Month Periodicity in the Activity of FRB 20240902A; Pal, arXiv: 2502.11215
• A Catalog of Local Universe Fast Radio Bursts from CHIME/FRB and the KKO Outrigger; Amiri et al., arXiv: 2502.11217
• Improved constraints on the Faraday rotation towards eight fast radio bursts using dense grids of polarized radio galaxies; Pandhi et al., arXiv: 2502.12263
• Effects of localisation precision on identified fast radio burst host galaxy magnitudes; James et al., arXiv: 2502.16791
• Bias-corrected Fast Radio Bursts Population and Spectra Using CHIME Injection Data; Cui et al., arXiv: 2502.19138

Theory and Modeling

• Constraining the Effect of Baryonic Feedback on the Matter Power Spectrum with Fast Radio Bursts; Medlock et al., arXiv: 2501.17922
• Propagation-induced Frequency-dependent Polarization Properties of Fast Radio Burst; Wang et al., arXiv: 2502.02857
• The dispersion measure and scattering of Fast Radio Bursts: contributions from multi-components, and clues for the intrinsic properties; Mo et al., arXiv: 2502.05838
• Fast Radio Bursts as cosmological proxies: estimating the Hubble constant; Piratova-Moreno et al., arXiv: 2502.08509
• Repeating fast radio bursts from synchrotron maser radiation in localized plasma blobs: Application to FRB 20121102A; Li et al., arXiv: 2502.11103
• How does Radiation Reaction Affect Relativistic Magnetized Shocks Emission; Zhang et al., arXiv: 2502.14550
• Unveiling the origin of fast radio bursts by modeling the stellar mass and star formation distributions of their host galaxies; Loudas et al., arXiv: 2502.15566
• Hyper-active repeating fast radio bursts from rotation modulated starquakes on magnetars; Luo et al., arXiv: 2502.16626

Algorithms, Instrumentation, and Data Access

• TRIPP: A General Purpose Data Pipeline for Astronomical Image Processing; Thomas et al., arXiv: 2501.18142
• BatAnalysis -- A Comprehensive Python Pipeline for Swift BAT Time-Tagged Event Data Analysis; Parsotan et al., arXiv: 2502.00278

Magnetars and other relevant results

• r-Process Nucleosynthesis and Radioactively Powered Transients from Magnetar Giant Flares; Patel et al., arXiv: 2501.17253
• A Search for Low-frequency Radio Pulses from Long Gamma-ray Bursts with the Murchison Widefield Array; Xu et al., arXiv: 2502.11545
• Constraints on optical and near-infrared variability in the localisation of the long-period radio transient GLEAM-X J1627-52; Lyman et al., arXiv: 2502.14688
• Multifrequency Radio Observations of the Magnetar Swift J1818.0--1607; Lewis et al., arXiv: 2502.15200

• FRB 20240711A was detected at MeerKAT (MeerTRAP) with a DM of 835 pc/cc and observed to repeat in follow-up observations at MeerKAT (0.5--1.1 GHz) as well as at Murriyang (Parkes, 0.7--4 GHz). Optical follow-up of host candidates is ongoing. [ATel 17019]
• The CHIME/FRB Collaboration reported [ATel 17021] the spatial and temporal proximity of FRB 20250206A to the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) compact-object merger candidate S250206dm (GCN 39175; likely either BH-NS or NS-NS). The FRB was detected about 52 seconds after the topocentric time of the merger event (having corrected for dispersive delay). However, the FRB is at the very edge of the LVK localization region (99.96% credible region), making this likely to be a chance coincidence.

A conference announcement relevant to the readers of this Newsletter:

• The annual FRB conference will be hosted at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from July 7--11, 2025. Abstract submission is now open with a deadline of April 4 2025.

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