Publications (31)
A Demonstration of Extremely Low Latency -ray, X-Ray & UV Follow-Up of a Millisecond Radio Transient
Aaron Tohuvavohu, Casey J. Law, Jamie A. Kennea +18
We report results of a novel high-energy follow-up observation of a potential Fast Radio Burst. The radio burst was detected by VLA/realfast and followed-up by the Neil Gehrels Swi…
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…
Probing the extragalactic fast transient sky at minute timescales with DECam
Igor Andreoni, Jeffrey Cooke, Sara Webb +22
Searches for optical transients are usually performed with a cadence of days to weeks, optimised for supernova discovery. The optical fast transient sky is still largely unexplored…
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…
A CHIME/FRB study of burst rate and morphological evolution of the periodically repeating FRB 20180916B
Ketan R. Sand, Daniela Breitman, Daniele Michilli +31
FRB 20180916B is a repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) with a 16.3-day periodicity in its activity. In this study, we present morphological properties of 60 FRB 20180916B bursts detec…
CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 results: statistical cross-correlations with large-scale structure
Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi, Kendrick M. Smith, Dongzi Li +38
The CHIME/FRB Project has recently released its first catalog of fast radio bursts (FRBs), containing 492 unique sources. We present results from angular cross-correlations of CHIM…
A fast radio burst with sub-millisecond quasi-periodic structure
Inés Pastor-Marazuela, Joeri van Leeuwen, Anna Bilous +31
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients of extraordinary luminosity. Studying the diverse temporal and spectral behaviour recently observed in a number of FRBs…
Optical follow-up observation of Fast Radio Burst 151230
Nozomu Tominaga, Yuu Niino, Tomonori Totani +9
The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs), bright millisecond radio transients, is still somewhat of a mystery. Several theoretical models expect that the FRB accompanies an optical a…
Sub-arcminute localization of 13 repeating fast radio bursts detected by CHIME/FRB
Daniele Michilli, Mohit Bhardwaj, Charanjot Brar +23
We report on improved sky localizations of thirteen repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) discovered by CHIME/FRB via the use of interferometric techniques on channelized voltages fro…
The Location of Young Pulsar PSR J08372454: Galactic Halo or Local Supernova Remnant?
Nihan Pol, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Natasha Hurley-Walker +8
We present the discovery and timing of the young (age kyr) pulsar PSR J08372454. Based on its high latitude () and dispersion measure (DM ~p…
The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS): Design, Commissioning, Data Release, and Detection of the first 5 Fast Radio Bursts
Joeri van Leeuwen, Eric Kooistra, Leon Oostrum +49
Fast Radio Bursts must be powered by uniquely energetic emission mechanisms. This requirement has eliminated a number of possible source types, but several remain. Identifying the…
Multiband Detection of Repeating FRB 20180916B
Ketan R. Sand, Jakob Faber, Vishal Gajjar +19
We present a multiband study of FRB 20180916B, a repeating source with a 16.3 day periodicity. We report the detection of 4, 1 and 7 bursts from observations spanning 3 days using…
A Local Universe Host for the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 20181030A
M. Bhardwaj, A. Yu. Kirichenko, D. Michilli +16
We report on the host association of FRB 20181030A, a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) with a low dispersion measure (DM, 103.5 pc cm) discovered by CHIME/FRB Collaboration…
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…
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…
Polarization properties of 128 non-repeating fast radio bursts from the first CHIME/FRB baseband catalog
Ayush Pandhi, Ziggy Pleunis, Ryan Mckinven +23
We present a 400-800 MHz polarimetric analysis of 128 non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the first CHIME/FRB baseband catalog, increasing the total number of FRB sources w…
Morphologies of Bright Complex Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME/FRB Voltage Data
Jakob T. Faber, Daniele Michilli, Ryan Mckinven +23
We present the discovery of twelve thus far non-repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources, detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. These so…
Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst
FRB Collaboration, Bridget C. Andersen, Kevin Bandura +59
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration flashes of radio waves that are visible at distances of billions of light-years. The nature of their progenitors and their emissio…
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…
The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog
FRB Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Bridget C. Andersen +73
We present a catalog of 536 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project between 400 and 800 MHz fro…
VOEvent Standard for Fast Radio Bursts
Emily Petroff, Leon Houben, Keith Bannister +13
Fast radio bursts are a new class of transient radio phenomena currently detected as millisecond radio pulses with very high dispersion measures. As new radio surveys begin searchi…
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…
frb-voe: A Real-time Virtual Observatory Event Alert Service for Fast Radio Bursts
Thomas C. Abbott, Andrew V. Zwaniga, Charanjot Brar +12
We present frb-voe, a publicly available software package that enables radio observatories to broadcast fast radio burst (FRB) alerts to subscribers through low-latency virtual obs…
On detecting repetition from fast radio bursts
Liam Connor, Emily Petroff
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration radio pulses whose origins are unknown. To date, only one (FRB 121102) out of several dozen has been seen to repeat, thoug…
Statistical association between the candidate repeating FRB 20200320A and a galaxy group
Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi, Kendrick M. Smith, D. Michilli +17
We present results from angular cross-correlations between select samples of CHIME/FRB repeaters and galaxies in three photometric galaxy surveys, which have shown correlations wit…
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…
Chromatic periodic activity down to 120 MHz in a Fast Radio Burst
Inés Pastor-Marazuela, Liam Connor, Joeri van Leeuwen +34
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic astrophysical transients whose brightness requires emitters that are highly energetic, yet compact enough to produce the short, milliseco…
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…
Comprehensive analysis of the Apertif Fast Radio Burst sample: similarities with young, energetic neutron stars
Inés Pastor-Marazuela, Joeri van Leeuwen, Anna Bilous +9
Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has become the main science driver of recent dedicated FRB surveys. Between July 2019 and February 2022, we carried out ALERT,…
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…
Limits on Fast Radio Burst-like Counterparts to Gamma-ray Bursts using CHIME/FRB
Alice P. Curtin, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Alexander Josephy +21
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a class of highly energetic, mostly extragalactic radio transients lasting for a few milliseconds. While over 600 FRBs have been published so far, thei…