CaltechAUTHORS
  A Caltech Library Service

Commensal discovery of four fast radio bursts during Parkes Pulsar Timing Array observations

Osłowski, S. and Shannon, R. M. and Ravi, V. and Kaczmarek, J. F. and Zhang, S. and Hobbs, G. and Bailes, M. and Russell, C. J. and van Straten, W. and James, C. W. and Jameson, A. and Mahony, E. K. and Kumar, P. and Andreoni, I. and Bhat, N. D. R. and Burke-Spolaor, S. and Dai, S. and Dempsey, J. and Kerr, M. and Manchester, R. N. and Parthasarathy, A. and Reardon, D. and Sarkissian, J. M. and Spiewak, R. and Toomey, L. and Wang, J.-B. and Zhang, L. and Zhu, X.-J. (2019) Commensal discovery of four fast radio bursts during Parkes Pulsar Timing Array observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488 (1). pp. 868-875. ISSN 0035-8711. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1751. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190722-080407661

[img] PDF - Published Version
See Usage Policy.

1MB
[img] PDF - Accepted Version
See Usage Policy.

688kB

Use this Persistent URL to link to this item: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190722-080407661

Abstract

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project monitors two dozen millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in order to undertake a variety of fundamental physics experiments using the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. Since 2017 June, we have been undertaking commensal searches for fast radio bursts (FRBs) during the MSP observations. Here, we report the discovery of four FRBs (171209, 180309, 180311, and 180714). The detected events include an FRB with the highest signal-to-noise ratio ever detected at the Parkes Observatory, which exhibits unusual spectral properties. All four FRBs are highly polarized. We discuss the future of commensal searches for FRBs at Parkes.


Item Type:Article
Related URLs:
URLURL TypeDescription
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1751DOIArticle
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09793arXivDiscussion Paper
ORCID:
AuthorORCID
Osłowski, S.0000-0003-0289-0732
Ravi, V.0000-0002-7252-5485
Kaczmarek, J. F.0000-0003-4810-7803
Hobbs, G.0000-0003-1502-100X
van Straten, W.0000-0003-2519-7375
James, C. W.0000-0002-6437-6176
Kumar, P.0000-0003-1913-3092
Andreoni, I.0000-0002-8977-1498
Kerr, M.0000-0002-0893-4073
Parthasarathy, A.0000-0002-4140-5616
Reardon, D.0000-0002-2035-4688
Zhu, X.-J.0000-0001-7049-6468
Additional Information:© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model). Accepted 2019 June 21. Received 2019 June 20; in original form 2019 May 16. Published: 28 June 2019. The Parkes radio telescope is part of the Australia Telescope, which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia for operation as a National Facility managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). This paper includes archived data obtained through the CSIRO Data Access Portal (http://data.csiro.au). The authors would like to thank Chris Flynn and Shivani Bhandari for helpful discussions. We are grateful to Amy Lien, Jeff Cooke, and Nicolas Tejos for help with considerations of rapid follow-up. Bill Coles was one of the early proponents of conducting this experiment during the PPTA observations and we thank him for the helpful discussions about the manuscript. We thank the referee for useful comments on the manuscript. SO, MB, and RS acknowledge Australian Research Council grant FL150100148. MB and RMS acknowledge Australian Research Council grant CE170400001. J-BW is supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Work at NRL is supported by NASA. This research has made use of NASA’s Astrophysics Data System.
Funders:
Funding AgencyGrant Number
Commonwealth of AustraliaUNSPECIFIED
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)UNSPECIFIED
Australian Research CouncilFL150100148
Australian Research CouncilCE170400001
Chinese Academy of SciencesUNSPECIFIED
NASAUNSPECIFIED
Issue or Number:1
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stz1751
Record Number:CaltechAUTHORS:20190722-080407661
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190722-080407661
Official Citation:S Osłowski, R M Shannon, V Ravi, J F Kaczmarek, S Zhang, G Hobbs, M Bailes, C J Russell, W van Straten, C W James, A Jameson, E K Mahony, P Kumar, I Andreoni, N D R Bhat, S Burke-Spolaor, S Dai, J Dempsey, M Kerr, R N Manchester, A Parthasarathy, D Reardon, J M Sarkissian, R Spiewak, L Toomey, J-B Wang, L Zhang, X-J Zhu, Commensal discovery of four fast radio bursts during Parkes Pulsar Timing Array observations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 488, Issue 1, September 2019, Pages 868–875, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1751
Usage Policy:No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.
ID Code:97304
Collection:CaltechAUTHORS
Deposited By: Tony Diaz
Deposited On:22 Jul 2019 16:31
Last Modified:16 Nov 2021 17:30

Repository Staff Only: item control page