Welcome to Volume 6 of the FRB Community Newsletter. As a quick reminder, past editions are assigned DOIs and archived on the newsletter home page. We hope you enjoy this round-up of FRB-related papers news.

Observational Results

• Probing Cosmology with 92 Localized Fast Radio Bursts and DESI BAO; Wang et al., arXiv: 2501.09260
• Empirical estimation of host galaxy dispersion measure towards well localized fast radio bursts; Bernales-Cortes et al., arXiv: 2501.14063
• A flaring radio counterpart to a fast radio burst reveals a newborn magnetized engine; Zhang et al., arXiv: 2501.14247
• Constraints on fast radio burst population from the first CHIME/FRB catalog from Hierarchical Bayesian Inference; Zhou et al., arXiv: 2501.15530
• Constraining the Milky Way's Dispersion Measure Using FRB and X-ray Data; Wang et al., arXiv: 2501.16770

Theory and Modeling

• Quasi-steady emission from repeating fast radio bursts can be explained by magnetar wind nebula; Bhattacharya et al., arXiv: 2412.19358
• Revealing the internal magnetic field configuration of magnetars via their associated periodic signals; Shu et al., arXiv: 2501.02887
• Constraints on extended axion structures from the lensing of fast radio bursts; Acuna et al., arXiv: 2501.07176
• A universal break in energy functions of three hyperactive repeating fast radio bursts; Wu et al., arXiv: 2501.09248
• The cosmic evolution of FRBs inferred from CHIME/FRB Catalog 1; Gupta et al., arXiv: 2501.09810
• A Neural Network Model for the Cosmic Dispersion Measure in the CAMELS Simulations; Guo & Lee, arXiv: 2501.16709

Algorithms, Instrumentation, and Data Access

• Pre-trained Audio Transformer as a Foundational AI Tool for Gravitational Waves; Chatterjee et al., arXiv: 2412.20789
• TransientVerse: A Comprehensive Real-Time Alert and Multi-Wavelength Analysis System for Transient Astronomical Events; Fang et al., arXiv: 2501.04247
• BASSET: Bandpass-Adaptive Single-pulse SEarch Toolkit -- Optimized Sub-Band Pulse Search Strategies for Faint Narrow-Band FRBs; Cao et al., arXiv: 2501.05875
• An Ultra-Wideband Dual Polarization Antenna Array for the Detection and Localization of Bright Fast Radio Transients in the Milky Way; Gallardo et al., arXiv: 2501.08764

Magnetars and other relevant results

• Dwarf Galaxies with Radio-excess AGNs in the VLA Sky Survey; Eberhard et al., arXiv: 2411.14535
• IXPE detection of highly polarized X-rays from the magnetar 1E 1841-045; Rigoselli et al., arXiv: 2412.15811
• X-ray polarization of the magnetar 1E 1841-045 in outburst; Stewart et al., arXiv: 2412.16036
• Quantifying the memory and dynamical stability of magnetar bursts; Sang & Lin, arXiv: 2412.18821
• Deep Searches for Radio Pulsations and Bursts from Four Magnetar and a Magnetar-like pulsar with FAST; Bai et al., arXiv: 2412.20050
• The timing and spectral properties of the 2022 outburst of SGR J1935+2154 observed with NICER; Yu-Cong et al., arXiv: 2501.07049
• Discovery of 26 new Galactic radio transients by MeerTRAP; Turner et al., arXiv: 2501.08224
• A highly magnetized long-period radio transient exhibiting unusual emission features; Men et al., arXiv: 2501.10528
• Discovery of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation in short-duration gamma-ray bursts; Yang et al., arXiv: 2501.14207

• The repeating FRB 20240114A continues to be in an active state, with 8 high fluence bursts detected in December 2024 - January 2025 at 1.4 GHz with 25m - 32m telescopes (ATel 16967).
• The Galactic magnetar SGR 1E1841-045 has become active again, as seen in gamma rays with Fermi, Konus-Wind, and SVOM (GCN 39022).

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