Publications (40)
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…
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…
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…
Observations of Fast Radio Bursts at Frequencies down to 400 Megahertz
FRB Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Kevin Bandura +52
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio flashes likely arriving from far outside the Milky Way galaxy. This phenomenon was discovered at radio freq…
Inferring the Energy and Distance Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts using the First CHIME/FRB Catalog
Kaitlyn Shin, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Mohit Bhardwaj +18
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, energetic, extragalactic flashes of radio emission whose progenitors are largely unknown. Although studying the FRB population is essential for…
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…
Constraints on the Intergalactic and Local Dispersion Measure of Fast Radio Bursts with the CHIME/FRB far side-lobe events
Hsiu-Hsien Lin, Paul Scholz, Cherry Ng +40
We study the 10 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected in the far side-lobe region of the CHIME telescope from 2018 August 28 to 2021 August 31. We find that the far side-lobe events ha…
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…
A pulsar-like swing in the polarisation position angle of a nearby fast radio burst
Ryan Mckinven, Mohit Bhardwaj, Tarraneh Eftekhari +41
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for milliseconds and arrive at Earth from cosmological distances. While their origin(s) and emission mechanism(s) are presently unknown, their signals…
A search for persistent radio sources toward repeating fast radio bursts discovered by CHIME/FRB
Adaeze L. Ibik, Maria R. Drout, Bryan M. Gaensler +25
The identification of persistent radio sources (PRSs) coincident with two repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) supports FRB theories requiring a compact central engine. However, deep…
Characterizing fast radio bursts through statistical cross-correlations
Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi, Kendrick M. Smith, Kiyoshi W. Masui
Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRB's) is a central unsolved problem in astrophysics that is severely hampered by their poorly determined distance scale. Determining…
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.…
Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog
Ziggy Pleunis, Deborah C. Good, Victoria M. Kaspi +29
We present a synthesis of fast radio burst (FRB) morphology (the change in flux as a function of time and frequency) as detected in the 400-800 MHz octave by the FRB project on the…
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…
CHIME Discovery of a Binary Pulsar with a Massive Non-Degenerate Companion
Bridget C. Andersen, Emmanuel Fonseca, J. W. McKee +25
Of the more than radio pulsars currently known, only are in binary systems, and only five of these consist of young pulsars with massive non-degenerate compan…
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…
Comprehensive Bayesian analysis of FRB-like bursts from SGR 1935+2154 observed by CHIME/FRB
Utkarsh Giri, Bridget C. Andersen, Pragya Chawla +24
The bright millisecond-duration radio burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 in 2020 April was a landmark event, demonstrating that at least some fast radio burst (FRB) sou…
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…
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…
An Injection System for the CHIME/FRB Experiment
Marcus Merryfield, S. P. Tendulkar, Kaitlyn Shin +19
Dedicated surveys searching for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are subject to selection effects which bias the observed population of events. Software injection systems are one method of…
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…
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…
Proposed host galaxies of repeating fast radio burst sources detected by CHIME/FRB
Adaeze L. Ibik, Maria R. Drout, B. M. Gaensler +18
We present a search for host galaxy associations for the third set of repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources discovered by the CHIME/FRB Collaboration. Using the 1 arcmin…
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…
Mitigating radio frequency interference in CHIME/FRB real-time intensity data
Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi, Kendrick M. Smith
Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new class of astrophysical transients with unknown origins that have become a main focus of radio observatories worldwide. FRBs are hig…
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…
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…
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…
Morphology of 137 Fast Radio Bursts down to Microseconds Timescales from The First CHIME/FRB Baseband Catalog
Ketan R. Sand, Alice P. Curtin, Daniele Michilli +21
We present a spectro-temporal analysis of 137 fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the first CHIME/FRB baseband catalog, including 125 one-off bursts and 12 repeat bursts, down to microse…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Contemporaneous X-ray Observations of 30 Bright Radio Bursts from the Prolific Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20220912A
Amanda M. Cook, Paul Scholz, Aaron B. Pearlman +22
We present an extensive contemporaneous X-ray and radio campaign performed on the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20220912A for eight weeks immediately following the so…
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…
Morphology of 35 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources at Microsecond Time Scales with CHIME/FRB
Alice P. Curtin, Ketan R. Sand, Ziggy Pleunis +27
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) project has discovered the most repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources of any telescope. However,…