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Evaluating a strategy for measuring deformations of the primary reflector of the Green Bank telescope using a terrestrial laser scanner
Pedro Salas, Paul Marganian, Joe Brandt +11
Astronomical observations in the molecule rich 3 mm window using large reflector antennas provide a unique view of the Universe. To efficiently carry out these observations gravita…
The FRB 20121102A November rain in 2018 observed with the Arecibo Telescope
J. N. Jahns, L. G. Spitler, K. Nimmo +7
We present 849 new bursts from FRB 20121102A detected with the 305-m Arecibo Telescope. Observations were conducted as part of our regular campaign to monitor activity and evolutio…
Arecibo observations of a burst storm from FRB 20121102A in 2016
D. M. Hewitt, M. P. Snelders, J. W. T. Hessels +9
FRB 20121102A is the first known fast radio burst (FRB) from which repeat bursts were detected, and one of the best-studied FRB sources in the literature. Here we report on the ana…
Rotation Measure Evolution of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 121102
G. H. Hilmarsson, D. Michilli, L. G. Spitler +10
The repeating fast radio burst source FRB 121102 has been shown to have an exceptionally high and variable Faraday rotation measure (RM), which must be imparted within its host gal…
Repeating behaviour of FRB 121102: periodicity, waiting times and energy distribution
M. Cruces, L. G. Spitler, P. Scholz +7
Detections from the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 are clustered in time, noticeable even in the earliest repeat bursts. Recently, it was argued that the source activity is…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Radio Counterparts of Compact Object Mergers in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Alessandra Corsi, Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning, Dario Carbone +9
GHz radio astronomy has played a fundamental role in the recent dazzling discovery of GW170817, a neutron star (NS)-NS merger observed in both gravitational waves (GWs) and light a…
Fast Radio Burst Tomography of the Unseen Universe
Vikram Ravi, Nicholas Battaglia, Sarah Burke-Spolaor +13
The discovery of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) at cosmological distances has opened a powerful window on otherwise unseen matter in the Universe. In the 2020s, observations of …
A sample of low energy bursts from FRB 121102
K. Gourdji, D. Michilli, L. G. Spitler +4
We present 41 bursts from the first repeating fast radio burst discovered (FRB 121102). A deep search has allowed us to probe unprecedentedly low burst energies during two consecut…
FRB 121102 Bursts Show Complex Time-Frequency Structure
J. W. T. Hessels, L. G. Spitler, A. D. Seymour +23
FRB 121102 is the only known repeating fast radio burst source. Here we analyze a wide-frequency-range (1-8 GHz) sample of high-signal-to-noise, coherently dedispersed bursts detec…
Detection of Bursts from FRB 121102 with the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope at 5 GHz and the Role of Scintillation
Laura G Spitler, W Herrmann, Geoffrey C Bower +8
FRB 121102, the only repeating fast radio burst (FRB) known to date, was discovered at 1.4 GHz and shortly after the discovery of its repeating nature, detected up to 2.4 GHz. Here…
The implementation of a Fast-Folding pipeline for long-period pulsar searching in the PALFA survey
E. Parent, V. M. Kaspi, S. M. Ransom +31
The Pulsar Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (PALFA) survey, the most sensitive blind search for radio pulsars yet conducted, is ongoing at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The vast…
Highest-frequency detection of FRB 121102 at 4-8 GHz using the Breakthrough Listen Digital Backend at the Green Bank Telescope
V. Gajjar, A. P. V. Siemion, D. C. Price +28
We report the first detections of the repeating fast radio burst source FRB 121102 above 5.2 GHz. Observations were performed using the 48 GHz receiver of the Robert C. Byrd Gre…
PALFA Discovery of a Highly Relativistic Double Neutron Star Binary
K. Stovall, P. C. C. Freire, S. Chatterjee +32
We report the discovery and initial follow-up of a double neutron star (DNS) system, PSR J19462052, with the Arecibo L-Band Feed Array pulsar (PALFA) survey. PSR J19462052 is…
An extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 121102
D. Michilli, A. Seymour, J. W. T. Hessels +31
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration, extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. FRB 121102, the only known repeating FRB source, has been localized to a…
A Multi-telescope Campaign on FRB 121102: Implications for the FRB Population
C. J. Law, M. W. Abruzzo, C. G. Bassa +33
We present results of the coordinated observing campaign that made the first subarcsecond localization of a Fast Radio Burst, FRB 121102. During this campaign, we made the first si…
Simultaneous X-ray, gamma-ray, and Radio Observations of the repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102
P. Scholz, S. Bogdanov, J. W. T. Hessels +19
We undertook coordinated campaigns with the Green Bank, Effelsberg, and Arecibo radio telescopes during Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton observations of the repeating fast…
Enabling New ALMA Science with Improved Support for Time-Domain Observations
Kate D. Alexander, Edo Berger, Geoff Bower +34
While the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a uniquely powerful telescope, its impact in certain fields of astrophysics has been limited by observatory policie…
The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102
Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Cees Bassa, James M. Cordes +21
The precise localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB 121102) has provided the first unambiguous association (chance coincidence probability ) of…
The Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102 as Seen on Milliarcsecond Angular Scales
B. Marcote, Z. Paragi, J. W. T. Hessels +26
The millisecond-duration radio flashes known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) represent an enigmatic astrophysical phenomenon. Recently, the sub-arcsecond localization (~ 100mas precisi…
The direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host
S. Chatterjee, C. J. Law, R. S. Wharton +22
Fast radio bursts are astronomical radio flashes of unknown physical nature with durations of milliseconds. Their dispersive arrival times suggest an extragalactic origin and imply…
Einstein@Home discovery of a Double-Neutron Star Binary in the PALFA Survey
P. Lazarus, P. C. C. Freire, B. Allen +29
We report here the Einstein@Home discovery of PSR J1913+1102, a 27.3-ms pulsar found in data from the ongoing Arecibo PALFA pulsar survey. The pulsar is in a 4.95-hr double neutron…
Two long-term intermittent pulsars discovered in the PALFA Survey
A. G. Lyne, B. W. Stappers, P. C. C. Freire +31
We report the discovery of two long-term intermittent radio pulsars in the ongoing Arecibo PALFA pulsar survey. Following discovery with the Arecibo Telescope, extended observation…
Timing of 29 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey
A. G. Lyne, B. W. Stappers, S. Bogdanov +33
We report on the discovery and timing observations of 29 distant long-period pulsars discovered in the ongoing Arecibo PALFA pulsar survey. Following discovery with the Arecibo Tel…
Simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of PSR B0611+22
Kaustubh Rajwade, Andrew Seymour, Duncan R Lorimer +4
We report results from simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of PSR B0611+22 which is known to exhibit bursting in its single-pulse emission. The pulse phase of the bursts vary…