A targeted search for repeating fast radio bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts

Abstract

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) still remains a mystery, even with the increased number of discoveries in the last three years. Growing evidence suggests that some FRBs may originate from magnetars. Large, single-dish telescopes such as Arecibo Observatory (AO) and Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have the sensitivity to detect FRB~121102-like bursts at gigaparsec distances. Here we present searches using AO and GBT that aimed to find potential radio bursts at 11 sites of past $\gamma$--ray bursts that show evidence for the birth of a magnetar. We also performed a search towards GW170817, which has a merger remnant whose nature remains uncertain. We place $10\sigma$ fluence upper limits of $\approx 0.036$ Jy ms at 1.4 GHz and $\approx 0.063$ Jy ms at 4.5 GHz for AO data and fluence upper limits of $\approx 0.085$ Jy ms at 1.4 GHz and $\approx 0.098$ Jy ms at 1.9 GHz for GBT data, for a maximum pulse width of $\approx 42$ ms. The AO observations had sufficient sensitivity to detect any FRB of similar luminosity to the one recently detected from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154. Assuming a Schechter function for the luminosity function of FRBs, we find that our non-detections favor a steep power--law index ($\alpha \lesssim -1.0$) and a large cut--off luminosity ($L_0\gtrsim 10^{42}$ erg/s).

arXiv comment7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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