We present the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA-110) discovery and interferometric localization of the so far nonrepeating FRB 20220319D. The FRB originates in a young, rapidly star-forming barred spiral galaxy, IRAS 02044+7048, at just 50 Mpc. Although the NE2001 and YMW16 models for the Galactic interstellar-medium (ISM) contribution to the DM of FRB 20220319D exceed its total observed DM, we show that uncertainties in these models accommodate an extragalactic origin for the burst. We derive a conservative upper limit on the DM contributed by the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the Milky Way of 47.3 pc cm−3, based on a pulsar nearby on the sky to FRB 20220319D that is used to estimate the ISM DM. This limit implies that the total Galactic CGM mass is <1011M⊙, and that the baryonic mass of the Milky Way is ≲60% of the cosmological average given the total halo mass. More stringent albeit less conservative constraints are possible when the DMs of pulsars in the distant globular cluster M53 are additionally considered. Although our constraints are sensitive to possible anisotropy in the CGM and to the assumed form of the radial-density profile, they are not subject to uncertainties in the chemical and thermal properties of the CGM. Our results strongly support scenarios commonly predicted by galaxy-formation simulations wherein feedback processes expel baryonic matter from the halos of galaxies such as the Milky Way.
Deep Synoptic Array Science: A 50 Mpc Fast Radio Burst Constrains the Mass of the Milky Way Circumgalactic Medium
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Ravi, Vikram1
- Catha, Morgan1
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Chen, Ge1
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Connor, Liam1
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Cordes, James M.2
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Faber, Jakob T.1
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Lamb, James W.1
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Hallinan, Gregg1
- Harnach, Charlie1
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Hellbourg, Greg1
- Hobbs, Rick1
- Hodge, David1
- Hodges, Mark1
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Law, Casey1
- Rasmussen, Paul1
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Sharma, Kritti1
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Sherman, Myles B.1
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Shi, Jun1
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Simard, Dana1
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Somalwar, Jean J.1
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Squillace, Reynier1
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Weinreb, Sander1
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Woody, David P.1
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Yadlapalli, Nitika1
- The Deep Synoptic Array team
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Acknowledgement
The authors thank staff members of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and the Caltech radio group, including Kristen Bernasconi, Stephanie Cha-Ramos, Sarah Harnach, Tom Klinefelter, Lori McGraw, Corey Posner, Andres Rizo, Michael Virgin, Scott White, and Thomas Zentmyer. Their tireless efforts were instrumental to the success of the DSA-110. The DSA-110 is supported by the National Science Foundation Mid-Scale Innovations Program in Astronomical Sciences (MSIP) under grant AST-1836018. We acknowledge use of the VLA calibrator manual and the radio fundamental catalog. Some of the data presented herein were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation.
Facilities
Hale - Palomar Observatory's 5.1m Hale Telescope.
Software References
astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2022), CASA (CASA Team et al. 2022), heimdall (B. R. Barsdell et al. 2012), pypeit (J. Prochaska et al. 2020), Prospector (B. D. Johnson et al. 2021), wsclean (A. R. Offringa et al. 2014).
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- National Science Foundation
- AST-1836018
- W. M. Keck Foundation
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2025-03-28
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2025-05-22Published
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- Astronomy Department, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA)
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- Published