A southern sky search for repeating fast radio bursts using the Australian SKA Pathfinder
Abstract
We have conducted a search for bright repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) in our nearby Universe with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) in single-dish mode. We used eight ASKAP 12 m dishes, each equipped with a Chequerboard Phased Array Feed forming 36 beams on the sky, to survey ∼30 000 deg2 of the southern sky (-90° < δ < +30°) in 158 antenna days. The fluence limit of the survey is 22 Jy ms. We report the detection of FRB 180515 in our survey. We found no repeating FRBs in a total mean observation of 3 h per pointing divided into 1 h intervals, which were separated in time ranging between a day to a month. Using our non-detection, we exclude the presence of a repeating FRB similar to FRB 121102 closer than z = 0.004 in the survey area - a volume of at least 9.4 × 104 Mpc3 - at 95 per cent confidence.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stz804
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.06525
- Bibcode:
- 2019MNRAS.486...70B
- Keywords:
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- surveys;
- pulsars: general;
- intergalactic medium;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 8 figures, accepted in MNRAS