A Search for High-Energy Counterparts to Fast Radio Bursts

Abstract

We report on a search for high-energy counterparts to fast radio bursts (FRBs) with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). We find no significant associations for any of the 23 FRBs in our sample, but report upper limits to the high-energy fluence for each on timescales of 0.1, 1, 10, and 100 s. We report lower limits on the ratio of the radio to high-energy fluence, $\frac{f_r}{f_{\gamma }}$, for timescales of 0.1 and 100 s. We discuss the implications of our non-detections on various proposed progenitor models for FRBs, including analogs of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar and hyperflares from magnetars. This work demonstrates the utility of analyses of high-energy data for FRBs in tracking down the nature of these elusive sources.

References in corpus (16)

• Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
• Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A
• A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin
• The direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host
• The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102
• The Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102 as Seen on Milliarcsecond Angular Scales
• The Search for the Missing Baryons at Low Redshift
• A Second Source of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
• Radio Emission Signatures in the Crab Pulsar
• Fast radio bursts: search sensitivities and completeness
• A "Cosmic Comb" Model of Fast Radio Bursts
• Localization of Gamma-Ray Bursts using the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
• Local Circumnuclear Magnetar Solution to Extragalactic Fast Radio Bursts
• High-energy electromagnetic offline follow-up of LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave binary coalescence candidate events
• Updates to the Fermi-GBM Short GRB Targeted Offline Search in Preparation for LIGO's Second Observing Run
• Fast Radio Bursts from neutron stars plunging into black holes

Cited by in corpus (25)

• INTEGRAL discovery of a burst with associated radio emission from the magnetar SGR 1935+2154
• The Physical Mechanisms of Fast Radio Bursts
• The Physics of Fast Radio Bursts
• Simultaneous X-ray and Radio Observations of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 180916.J0158+65
• BURSTT: Bustling Universe Radio Survey Telescope in Taiwan
• The multiwavelength counterparts of fast radio bursts
• Fast Radio Burst Trains from Magnetar Oscillations
• Multiwavelength observations of Fast Radio Bursts
• A search for prompt gamma-ray counterparts to fast radio bursts in the Insight-HXMT data
• AGILE Observations of Two Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with Small Intrinsic Dispersion Measures
• Deep optical observations contemporaneous with emission from the periodic FRB 180916.J0158+65
• Constraining a neutron star merger origin for localized fast radio bursts
• AGILE Observations of Fast Radio Bursts
• Limits on Fast Radio Burst-like Counterparts to Gamma-ray Bursts using CHIME/FRB
• Constraining bright optical counterparts of Fast Radio Bursts
• Multi-wavelength and Multi-messenger Counterparts of Fast Radio Bursts
• Constraining the transient high-energy activity of FRB180916.J0158+65 with Insight-HXMT followup observations
• Hunting for gamma-ray emission from Fast Radio Bursts
• Constraining Near-Simultaneous Radio Emission from Short Gamma-ray Bursts using CHIME/FRB
• FRB131104 Swift BAT data revisited: No evidence of a gamma-ray counterpart
• A targeted search for FRB counterparts with Konus-Wind
• AT2020hur: A Possible Optical Counterpart of FRB 180916B
• INTEGRAL limits on past high-energy activity from FRB 20200120E in M81
• X-ray and Radio Bursts from the Magnetar 1E1547.0-5408
• Is GRB 110715A the progenitor of FRB 171209?