The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog
Abstract
We present a catalog of 536 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project between 400 and 800 MHz from 2018 July 25 to 2019 July 1, including 62 bursts from 18 previously reported repeating sources. The catalog represents the first large sample, including bursts from repeaters and nonrepeaters, observed in a single survey with uniform selection effects. This facilitates comparative and absolute studies of the FRB population. We show that repeaters and apparent nonrepeaters have sky locations and dispersion measures (DMs) that are consistent with being drawn from the same distribution. However, bursts from repeating sources differ from apparent nonrepeaters in intrinsic temporal width and spectral bandwidth. Through injection of simulated events into our detection pipeline, we perform an absolute calibration of selection effects to account for systematic biases. We find evidence for a population of FRBs—composing a large fraction of the overall population—with a scattering time at 600 MHz in excess of 10 ms, of which only a small fraction are observed by CHIME/FRB. We infer a power-law index for the cumulative fluence distribution of α = − 1.40 ± 0.11 ( stat. ) − 0.09 + 0.06 ( sys. ) , consistent with the −3/2 expectation for a nonevolving population in Euclidean space. We find that α is steeper for high-DM events and shallower for low-DM events, which is what would be expected when DM is correlated with distance. We infer a sky rate of [ 820 ± 60 ( stat. ) − 200 + 220 ( sys. ) ] / sky / day above a fluence of 5 Jy ms at 600 MHz, with a scattering time at 600 MHz under 10 ms and DM above 100 pc cm−3.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.3847/1538-4365/ac33ab
Entities
People
- A. V. Zwaniga
- Alex S. Hill
- Alexander Josephy
- Alice P. Curtin
- Amanda M. Cook
- Andre Renard
- Andrew E. Sikora
- Arash Mirhosseini
- Arun Naidu
- Bradley W. Meyers
- Bridget Andersen
- Bryan Gaensler
- C. Patel
- Calvin Leung
- Charanjot Brar
- Cherry Ng
- Chia Min Tan
- Dallas Wulf
- Daniela Breitman
- Daniele Michilli
- Davor Čubranić
- Deborah C. Good
- Dongzi Li
- Dustin Lang
- Emily Petroff
- Emmanuel Fonseca
- Fengqiu Adam Dong
- G. Hinshaw
- Gwendoline Eadie
- Haochen Wang
- Hsiu-Hsien Lin
- Ingrid Stairs
- J. Richard Shaw
- J.-F. Cliche
- Jane Kaczmarek
- Joseph Kania
- Juan Mena-Parra
- Kaitlyn Shin
- Keith Vanderlinde
- Kendrick M. Smith
- Kevin Bandura
- Kiyoshi Masui
- Laura Newburgh
- M. Amiri
- M. Halpern
- M. M. Boyce
- Marcus Merryfield
- Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi
- Mateus Fandino
- Matt Dobbs
- Meiling Deng
- Mohit Bhardwaj
- Moritz Münchmeyer
- Mubdi Rahman
- Nikola Milutinovic
- P. J. Boyle
- Paul Scholz
- Pragya Chawla
- Pranav Sanghavi
- Ryan Mckinven
- Sabrina Berger
- Saurabh Singh
- Scott Ransom
- Seth Siegel
- Shriharsh P. Tendulkar
- T. L. Landecker
- The Chime/frb Collaboration
- Tianyue Chen
- Tomas Cassanelli
- Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte
- Ue‐Li Pen
- Utkarsh Giri
- Victoria Kaspi
- Zarif Kader
- Ziggy Pleunis
Organizations
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Fonds de Recherche du Québec Nature et technologies
- National Science Foundation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council