New Insights into the Criteria of Fast Radio Burst in the Light of FRB 20121102A

Abstract

The total event number of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is accumulating rapidly with the improvement of existing radio telescopes and the completion of new facilities. Especially, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) Collaboration has just reported more than one thousand bursts in a short observing period of 47 days \citep{LiD2021}. The interesting bimodal distribution in their work motivates us to revisit the definition of FRBs. In this work, we ascribe the bimodal distribution to two physical kinds of radio bursts, which may have different radiation mechanisms. We propose to use brightness temperature to separate two subtypes. For FRB 20121102A, the critical brightness temperature is $T_{\mathrm{B},\mathrm{cri}}\simeq 10^{33}\mathrm{K}$. Bursts with $T_{\mathrm{B}}\ge T_{\mathrm{B},\mathrm{cri}}$ are denoted as "classical" FRBs, and further we find a tight pulse width-fluence relation ($T\propto {{\mathcal{F}}_{\nu }}^{0.306}$) for them. On the contrary, the other bursts are considered as "atypical" bursts that may originate from a different physical process. We suggest that for each FRB event, a similar dividing line should exist but $T_{\mathrm{B},\mathrm{cri}}$ is not necessarily the same. Its exact value depends on FRB radiation mechanism and properties of the source.

6 pages, 6 figures, A&A Letter accepted

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