Simultaneous view of the FRB~180301 with FAST and NICER during a bursting phase

Abstract

FRB180301 is one of the most actively repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) which has shown polarization angle changes in its radio burst emission, an indication for their likely origin in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetized neutron star. We carried out a multi-wavelength campaign with the FAST radio telescope and NICER X-ray observatory to investigate any possible X-ray emission temporally coincident with the bright radio bursts. The observations took place on 2021 March 4, 9 and 19. We detected five bright radio bursts with FAST, four of which were strictly simultaneous with the NICER observations. The peak flux-density of the radio bursts ranged between $28-105$ mJy, the burst fluence between $27-170$ mJy-ms, and the burst durations between $1.7-12.3$ ms. The radio bursts from FRB~180301 exhibited complex time domain structure, and sub-pulses were detected in individual bursts, with no significant circular polarisation. The linear degree of polarisation in L-band reduced significantly compared to the 2019 observations. We do not detect any X-ray emission in excess of the background during the 5ms, 10ms, 100ms, 1sec and 100sec time intervals at/around the radio-burst barycenter-corrected arrival times, at a $>5\sigma$ confidence level. The $5\sigma$ upper limits on the X-ray a) persistent flux is $<7.64\times 10^{-12}\mathrm{erg}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-2}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$ , equivalent to $L_{\mathrm{X}}<2.50\times 10^{45}\mathrm{erg}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$ and b) 5 ms fluence is $<2\times 10^{-11}\mathrm{erg}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-2}$, at the radio burst regions. Using the $5$ ms X-ray fluence upper limit, we can estimate the radio efficiency ${\eta }_{R/X}\equiv L_{\mathrm{Radio}}/L_{\mathrm{X}-\mathrm{ray}}\gtrsim 10^{-8}$. The derived upper limit on ${\eta }_{R/X}$ is consistent with both magnetospheric models and synchrotron maser models involving relativistic shocks.

Resubmitted to ApJ following referee's minor comments

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