Now that the excitement of FRB2024 is behind us, it is time to reset your countdown clock for FRB2025 in Montreal. We will pass along a link to the talk recordings from FRB2024, and more details of FRB2025, when those are available. Meanwhile, here is a round up of the latest from ArXiv - enjoy!

Reviews

• Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts; Glowacki & Lee, arXiv: 2410.24072

Observational Results

• Investigating the sightline of a highly scattered FRB through a filamentary structure in the local Universe; Shin et al., arXiv: 2410.07307
• The Massive and Quiescent Elliptical Host Galaxy of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB20240209A; Eftekhari et al., arXiv: 2410.23336
• A repeating fast radio burst source in the outskirts of a quiescent galaxy; Shah et al., arXiv: 2410.23374
• Separating repeating fast radio bursts using the minimum spanning tree as an unsupervised methodology; Garcia et al., arXiv: 2411.02216
• Constraining the Hubble constant with scattering in host galaxies of fast radio bursts; Yang et al., arXiv: 2411.02249
• Morphology of 32 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources at Microsecond Time Scales with CHIME/FRB; Curtin et al., arXiv: 2411.02870
• Flaring gamma-ray emission coincident with a hyperactive fast radio burst source; Xing et al., arXiv: 2411.06996 - (but see discussion of ATel 16602 in the April 2024 Newsletter)
• Polarization properties of 28 repeating fast radio burst sources with CHIME/FRB; Ng et al., arXiv: 2411.09045
• Reinvestigation of Fast Radio Bursts Host Galaxy and Event Rate Density; Ma et al., arXiv: 2411.09203
• 3D Localization of FRB 20190425A for Its Potential Host Galaxy and Implications; Qiang et al., arXiv: 2411.13973
• Unsupervised Machine Learning for Classifying CHIME Fast Radio Bursts and Investigating Empirical Relations; Qiang et al., arXiv: 2411.14040
• Unusual intra-burst variations of polarization states in FRB 20210912A and FRB 20230708A : Effects of plasma birefringence?; Bera et al., arXiv: 2411.14784
• Structure Functions of Rotation Measures Revealing the Origin of Fast Radio Bursts; Li et al., arXiv: 2411.15546
• Long term monitoring of FRB 20121102 with the Nancay Radio Telescope and multi-wavelength campaigns including INTEGRAL; Gouiffes et al., arXiv: 2411.16419

Theory and Modeling

• The role of magnetic and rotation axis alignment in driving fast radio burst phenomenology; Beniamini & Kumar, arXiv: 2410.19043

  "We propose a model that can describe the entire range of FRBs, from non-repeating to highly prolific repeaters."

• Lensing point-spread function of coherent astrophysical sources and non-trivial wave effects; Shi, arXiv: 2410.20049
• A parametric study of population inversions in relativistic plasmas through nonresonant interactions with Alfven waves and their applications to Fast Radio Bursts; Long & Pe'er, arXiv: 2410.21022
• Modeling the Cosmic Dispersion Measure in the D < 120 Mpc Local Universe; Huang et al., arXiv: 2410.22098
• Induced Compton scattering in magnetized electron and positron pair plasma; Nishiura et al., arXiv: 2411.00936
• Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts through the Epoch of Reionization; Ziegler et al., arXiv: 2411.02699
• Combining strongly lensed and unlensed fast radio bursts: to be a more precise late-universe probe; Zhang et al., arXiv: 2411.03126
• Fast Radio Bursts and Interstellar Objects; Pham et al., arXiv: 2411.09135

Algorithms, Instrumentation, and Data Access

• frb-voe: A Real-time Virtual Observatory Event Alert Service for Fast Radio Bursts; Abbott et al., arXiv: 2410.22468
• Accelerating FRB Search: Dataset and Methods; Guo et al., arXiv: 2411.02859
• The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) of the China-Europe eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission; Hernanz et al., arXiv: 2411.03050
• Self-supervised learning for radio-astronomy source classification: a benchmark; Cecconello et al., arXiv: 2411.14078
• A 400Gbit Ethernet core enabling High Data Rate Streaming from FPGAs to Servers and GPUs in Radio Astronomy; Liu et al., arXiv: 2411.15630

Magnetars and other relevant results

• Fast Transients from Magnetic Disks Around Non-Spinning Collapsar Black Holes; Bopp & Gottlieb; arXiv: 2410.22401
• INTEGRAL search for magnetar giant flares from the Virgo Cluster and in nearby galaxies with high star formation rate; Pacholski et al., arXiv: 2411.03235
• Origin of the twice 90 degree rotations of the polarization angle in GRB 170114A and GRB 160821A; Wang et al., arXiv: 2411.09070
• A 44-minute periodic radio transient in a supernova remnant; Li et al., arXiv: 2411.15739
• Searching radio signals from two magnetars and a high-magnetic field pulsar and the serendipitous discovery of a new radio pulsar PSR J1935+2200; Xie et al., arXiv: 2411.15960
• The FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey: VI. The discovery of 473 new pulsars; Han et al., arXiv: 2411.15961 - (includes 2 new FRBs)
• Detection of X-ray Emission from a Bright Long-Period Radio Transient; Wang et al., arXiv: 2411.16606 - (note this is an independent discovery of the same source presented in the Li et al. listing above)

Job advertisements that may be relevant to the readers of this Newsletter:

• Postdoctoral research position to work on FRBs with Joeri van Leeuwen at ASTRON. Deadline December 2 2024.
• Two Postdoctoral research positions to work on time-domain radio astronomy with the pulsar/FRB group at Guangzhou University. Deadline December 31 2024.

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