Explaining the statistical properties of Fast Radio Bursts with suppressed low-frequency emission
arXiv:1811.00109 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab0748
Abstract
The possibility of Fast Radio Burst (FRB) emission being suppressed at low frequencies, resulting in a cutoff of the average rest-frame spectrum, has been raised as an explanation for the lack of detections at meter wavelengths. We examine propagation effects that could cause this suppression, and find that a low-frequency spectral cutoff may be generic regardless of the specific FRB emission mechanism. We then illustrate the effects of a low-frequency spectral cutoff on the statistics of FRBs, given a cosmological source population. The observed FRB rate peaks at a specific frequency under a variety of assumptions. Observations at lower frequencies are more sensitive to high-redshift events than observations above the maximal-rate frequency, and therefore result in more sharply broken fluence distributions. Our results suggest that the absence of low-frequency FRBs, and the differences between the Parkes and the Australian Square Kilometre Array (ASKAP) FRB samples, can be fully explained by suppressed low-frequency FRB emission.
arXiv comment12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to AAS Journals
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