This month's newsletter comes to you a bit early to accommodate travel schedules, but it's packed nevertheless. Also note the upcoming FRB2024 abstract deadline at the end of August, as listed below. We hope you enjoy this edition of the newsletter!

Observational Results

• Searching for Pulsars, Magnetars, and Fast Radio Bursts in the Sculptor Galaxy using MeerKAT; Hurter et al., arXiv: 2408.01217
• Selection bias obfuscates the discovery of fast radio burst sources; Bhardwaj et al., arXiv: 2408.01876
• The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transient incoherent-sum survey; Shannon et al., arXiv: 2408.02083
• Ninety percent circular polarization detected in a repeating fast radio burst; Jiang et al., arXiv: 2408.03313
• Redshift dependence of FRB host dispersion measures across cosmic epochs; Acharya & Beniamini, arXiv: 2408.03163

Theory and Modeling

• The Quark-Nova model for FRBs: model comparison with observational data; Ouyed et al., arXiv: 2408.01834
• Quantifying the randomness and scale invariance of the repeating fast radio bursts; Sang & Lin., arXiv: 2408.02203
• Quantifying the coincidence between gravitational waves and fast radio bursts from neutron star--black hole mergers; Clarke et al., arXiv: 2408.02534
• The propagation-induced circular polarization of fast radio bursts in relativistic plasma; Zhao & Wang, arXiv: 2408.04401
• Modelling DSA, FAST and CRAFT surveys in a z-DM analysis and constraining a minimum FRB energy; Hoffmann et al., arXiv: 2408.04878
• Prospects of FRBs and Large Scale 21 cm Power Spectra in Constraining the Epoch of Reionization; Maity, arXiv: 2408.05722
• The impact of the FREDDA dedispersion algorithm on H0 estimations with FRBs; Hoffmann et al., arXiv: 2408.05937

Algorithms, Instrumentation, and Data Access

• Holographic Beam Measurements of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME); Amiri et al., arXiv: 2408.00172

Magnetars and other relevant results

• Probing the Magnetised Gas Distribution in Galaxy Groups and the Cosmic Web with POSSUM Faraday Rotation Measures; Anderson et al., arXiv: 2407.20325
• On the Origin of Magnetar Fields: Chiral Magnetic Instability in Neutron Star Crusts; Dehman & Pons, arXiv: 2408.05281
• A magnetised Galactic halo from inner Galaxy outflows; Zhang et al., arXiv: 2408.06312
• The Progenitor and Central Engine of short-duration GRB 201006A associated with a coherent radio flash; Tian et al., arXiv: 2408.06764
• Arecibo Wow! I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow! Signal; Mendez et al., arXiv: 2408.08513

• FRB 20240619D, the repeating source discovered at MeerKAT (see last month's Newsletter) continues to be active at low frequencies, with 60 bursts detected at uGMRT in observations at 550-750 MHz (ATel 16745).

• The abstract deadline is fast approaching for the FRB 2024 conference in Thailand 4-8 November 2024. Submit your abstracts before 30 August 2024.
• Keep an eye on the Scintillometry 2024 conference website for more details and registration information.

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