| 11th of February 2022 |
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| Fast Radio Burst localisations with ASKAP |
| by Bhandari et al. |
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Bhandari et al. present the localization and host galaxies of one
repeating and two apparently non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs).
FRB20191228A and FRB20200906A were detected and localized by ASKAP to
host galaxies at z = 0.2430 and z = 0.3688, respectively. Bhandari et
al. combine these with 13 other well-localized FRBs in the literature,
and analyze the host galaxy properties. They find no significant
differences in the host properties of repeating and apparently
nonrepeating FRBs. The global properties of FRB hosts are
indistinguishable from core-collapse supernovae and short gamma-ray
bursts hosts, and the spatial offset (from galaxy centers) of FRBs is
mostly inconsistent with that of the Galactic neutron star population
(at the 95% confidence level).
The left-hand image above is the I-band VLT/FORS2 images of the host of FRB20200906A, overplotted with the positions of each FRB. The white solid and dashed circle/ellipse represent the 1σ statistical and systematic uncertainty, respectively, in the FRB position. The right-hand image is the pulse profile and dynamic spectra for FRB20200906A. The FRB signals are dedispersed at the S/N maximized Dispersion Measure of 577.8 pc/cm^3. The paper has been published in the Astronomical Journal. |