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Publications (32)

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraining the mass of the M31 ionized baryon Halo using CHIME/FRB Catalog 2

Lordrick A. Kahinga, J. Xavier Prochaska, Sunil Simha +21

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies is believed to be a significant reservoir of baryons, yet its total mass remains poorly constrained. We present a novel approac…

astro-ph.HE2024

Magnetospheric origin of a fast radio burst constrained using scintillation

Kenzie Nimmo, Ziggy Pleunis, Paz Beniamini +26

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are micro-to-millisecond duration radio transients that originate mostly from extragalactic distances. The emission mechanism responsible for these high lu…

astro-ph.HE2021

A sudden period of high activity from repeating Fast Radio Burst 20201124A

Adam E. Lanman, Bridget C. Andersen, Pragya Chawla +30

The repeating FRB 20201124A was first discovered by CHIME/FRB in November of 2020, after which it was seen to repeat a few times over several months. It entered a period of high ac…

astro-ph.IM2026

A spatial filter for mitigating radio interference and its application to CHIME/FRB Outriggers

Shion Andrew, Juan Mena-Parra, Haochen Wang +16

The sensitivity of radio telescopes is becoming increasingly limited by the presence of radio frequency interference (RFI), which will worsen as the radio spectrum becomes more cro…

astro-ph.HE2024

A fast radio burst localized at detection to an edge-on galaxy using very-long-baseline interferometry

Tomas Cassanelli, Calvin Leung, Pranav Sanghavi +48

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration, luminous radio transients of extragalactic origin. These events have been used to trace the baryonic structure of the Universe us…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Spatial Gap in the Sky Distribution of Fast Radio Burst Detections Coinciding with Galactic Plasma Overdensities

Swarali Shivraj Patil, Robert A. Main, Emmanuel Fonseca +26

We analyze the positional and morphological properties of about 3600 unique fast radio burst (FRB) sources reported in the second FRB catalog generated by the Canadian Hydrogen Int…

astro-ph.IM2024

A VLBI Calibrator Grid at 600MHz for Fast Radio Transient Localizations with CHIME/FRB Outriggers

Shion Andrew, Calvin Leung, Alexander Li +15

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project has a new VLBI Outrigger at the Green Bank Observatory (GBO), which forms a 3300km baseline…

astro-ph.IM2019

Mitigating Internal Instrument Coupling II: A Method Demonstration with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Nicholas S. Kern, Aaron R. Parsons, Joshua S. Dillon +63

We present a study of internal reflection and cross coupling systematics in Phase I of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). In a companion paper, we outlined the mathem…

astro-ph.HE2026

Probing the maximum energy of fast radio bursts using thousands of sources from the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog

Vishwangi Shah, Jason W. T. Hessels, Victoria M. Kaspi +25

Quantifying the maximum energy of fast radio bursts (FRBs) can provide stringent constraints on their emission mechanisms and progenitor models. However, the most energetic bursts…

astro-ph.IM2019

Quantifying EoR delay spectrum contamination from diffuse radio emission

Adam E. Lanman, Jonathan C. Pober, Nicholas S. Kern +3

The 21 cm hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen offers a promising probe of the large scale structure of the universe before and during the Epoch of Reionization, when the first…

astro-ph.CO2025

Measurement of the Dispersion$\unicode{x2013}$Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog

Haochen Wang, Kiyoshi Masui, Shion Andrew +18

The dispersion of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) can serve as a powerful probe of the diffuse plasma between and surrounding galaxies, which contains most of the Universe's…

astro-ph.HE2026

The Second CHIME/FRB Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts

FRB Collaboration, Thomas Abbott, Bridget C. Andersen +71

We present a catalog of 4539 fast radio bursts (FRBs) observed with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope between 25 July 2018 and 15 September 2023.…

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraining Gas Mass Fractions in Galaxy Groups and Clusters with the First CHIME/FRB Outrigger

Adam E. Lanman, Sunil Simha, Kiyoshi W. Masui +16

In recent years, localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) have emerged as a powerful tool to study the structure of the baryonic matter in the universe. Their dispersion measures (DMs) s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Stellar Mass-Dispersion Measure Correlations Constrain Baryonic Feedback in Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies

Calvin Leung, Sunil Simha, Isabel Medlock +20

Low redshift fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide robust measurements of the host-galaxy contribution to the dispersion measure (DM), which can constrain the circumgalactic medium (CGM…

astro-ph.IM2019

Fundamental uncertainty levels of 21cm power spectra from a delay analysis

Adam E. Lanman, Jonathan C. Pober

Several experimental efforts are underway to measure the power spectrum of 21cm fluctuations from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) using low-frequency radio interferometers. Experim…

astro-ph.IM2024

A VLBI Software Correlator for Fast Radio Transients

Calvin Leung, Shion Andrew, Kiyoshi W. Masui +13

One major goal in fast radio burst science is to detect fast radio bursts (FRBs) over a wide field of view without sacrificing the angular resolution required to pinpoint them to t…

astro-ph.HE2024

Updating the first CHIME/FRB catalog of fast radio bursts with baseband data

FRB Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Bridget C. Andersen +57

In 2021, a catalog of 536 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope was released by the CHIME/FRB Collaborat…

astro-ph.IM2024

CHIME/FRB Outriggers: KKO Station System and Commissioning Results

Adam E. Lanman, Shion Andrew, Mattias Lazda +43

Localizing fast radio bursts (FRBs) to their host galaxies is an essential step to better understanding their origins and using them as cosmic probes. The CHIME/FRB Outrigger progr…

astro-ph.IM2021

Validation Solutions to the Full-Sky Radio Interferometry Measurement Equation for Diffuse Emission

Adam E. Lanman, Steven G. Murray, Daniel C. Jacobs

Low-frequency radio observatories are reaching unprecedented levels of sensitivity in an effort to detect the 21 cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn. High precision is needed because th…

astro-ph.HE2025

FRB 20250316A: A Brilliant and Nearby One-Off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 parsec Precision

FRB Collaboration, Thomas C. Abbott, Daniel Amouyal +83

Precise localizations of a small number of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) have enabled multiwavelength follow-up observations rev…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Catalog of Local Universe Fast Radio Bursts from CHIME/FRB and the KKO Outrigger

FRB Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Daniel Amouyal +62

We present the first catalog of fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies from CHIME/FRB Outriggers, selected uniformly in the radio and the optical by localizing 81 new bursts to 2'' x…

astro-ph.HE2025

CHIME/FRB Outriggers: Design Overview

FRB Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Bridget C. Andersen +66

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has emerged as the world's premier facility for studying fast radio bursts (FRBs) through its fast transient search backe…

astro-ph.GA2023

An FRB Sent Me a DM: Constraining the Electron Column of the Milky Way Halo with Fast Radio Burst Dispersion Measures from CHIME/FRB

Amanda M. Cook, Mohit Bhardwaj, B. M. Gaensler +25

The CHIME/FRB project has detected hundreds of fast radio bursts (FRBs), providing an unparalleled population to probe statistically the foreground media that they illuminate. One…

astro-ph.HE2024

Do All Fast Radio Bursts Repeat? Constraints from CHIME/FRB Far Side-Lobe FRBs

Hsiu-Hsien Lin, Paul Scholz, Cherry Ng +46

We report ten fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected in the far side-lobe region (i.e., off-meridian) of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) from 2…

astro-ph.HE2022

Constraining Primordial Black Holes using Fast Radio Burst Gravitational-Lens Interferometry with CHIME/FRB

Calvin Leung, Zarif Kader, Kiyoshi W. Masui +30

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) represent an exciting frontier in the study of gravitational lensing, due to their brightness, extragalactic nature, and the compact, coherent characterist…

astro-ph.IM2022

Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10-m Telescope

Tomas Cassanelli, Calvin Leung, Mubdi Rahman +38

The CHIME/FRB experiment has detected thousands of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) due to its sensitivity and wide field of view; however, its low angular resolution prevents it from loca…

astro-ph.HE2025

The CHIME/FRB Discovery of the Extremely Active Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20240114A

Kaitlyn Shin, Alice Curtin, Maxwell Fine +28

Among the thousands of observed fast radio bursts (FRBs), a few sources exhibit exceptionally high burst activity observable by many telescopes across a broad range of radio freque…

astro-ph.HE2023

Host Galaxies for Four Nearby CHIME/FRB Sources and the Local Universe FRB Host Galaxy Population

Mohit Bhardwaj, Daniele Michilli, Aida Yu. Kirichenko +24

We present the host galaxies of four apparently non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), FRBs 20181223C, 20190418A, 20191220A, and 20190425A, reported in the first Canadian Hydrogen…

astro-ph.HE2023

CHIME/FRB Discovery of 25 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources

FRB Collaboration, Bridget C. Andersen, Kevin Bandura +56

We present the discovery of 25 new repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources found among CHIME/FRB events detected between 2019 September 30 and 2021 May 1. The sources were found u…

astro-ph.HE2022

A High-Time Resolution Search for Compact Objects using Fast Radio Burst Gravitational Lens Interferometry with CHIME/FRB

Zarif Kader, Calvin Leung, Matt Dobbs +31

The gravitational field of compact objects, such as primordial black holes, can create multiple images of background sources. For transients such as fast radio bursts (FRBs), these…

astro-ph.HE2024

Investigating the sightline of a highly scattered FRB through a filamentary structure in the local Universe

Kaitlyn Shin, Calvin Leung, Sunil Simha +31

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are unique probes of extragalactic ionized baryonic structure as each signal, through its burst properties, holds information about the ionized matter it e…

astro-ph.IM2019

Mitigating Internal Instrument Coupling for 21 cm Cosmology I: Temporal and Spectral Modeling in Simulations

Nicholas S. Kern, Aaron R. Parsons, Joshua S. Dillon +3

We study the behavior of internal signal chain reflections and antenna cross coupling as systematics for 21 cm cosmological surveys. We outline the mathematics for how these system…