The Detection of an Extremely Bright Fast Radio Burst in a Phased Array Feed Survey

K. W. Bannister; R. M. Shannon; J. -P. Macquart; C. Flynn; P. G. Edwards; Morgan E O'Neill; S. Oslowski; M. Bailes; Barak Zackay; N. Clarke; L. R. D'Addario; R. Dodson; P. J. Hall; A. Jameson; D. Jones; R. Navarro; J. T. Trinh; J. Allison

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The Detection of an Extremely Bright Fast Radio Burst in a Phased Array Feed Survey

K. W. Bannister, R. M. Shannon, J. -P. Macquart, C. Flynn, P. G. Edwards, Morgan E O'Neill, S. Oslowski, M. Bailes, Barak Zackay, N. Clarke, L. R. D'Addario, R. Dodson, P. J. Hall, A. Jameson, D. Jones, R. Navarro, J. T. Trinh, J. Allison

Weizmann Institute of Science

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We report the detection of an ultra-bright fast radio burst (FRB) from a modest, 3.4-day pilot survey with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. The survey was conducted in a wide-field fly's-eye configuration using the phased-array-feed technology deployed on the array to instantaneously observe an effective area of 160 deg², and achieve an exposure totaling 13200 deg² hr . We constrain the position of FRB 170107 to a region in size (90% containment) and its fluence to be 58 ±6 Jy ms. The spectrum of the burst shows a sharp cutoff above 1400 MHz, which could be due to either scintillation or an intrinsic feature of the burst. This confirms the existence of an ultra-bright (∼ Jy ms) population of FRBs.

Original language	English
Article number	L12
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume	841
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa71ff
State	Published - 20 May 2017

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Bannister, K. W., Shannon, R. M., Macquart, J. -P., Flynn, C., Edwards, P. G., O'Neill, M. E., Oslowski, S., Bailes, M., Zackay, B., Clarke, N., D'Addario, L. R., Dodson, R., Hall, P. J., Jameson, A., Jones, D., Navarro, R., Trinh, J. T., & Allison, J. (2017). The Detection of an Extremely Bright Fast Radio Burst in a Phased Array Feed Survey. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 841(1), Article L12. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa71ff

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