Periodic Fast Radio Bursts from Luminous X-ray Binaries

Sridhar, Navin; Metzger, Brian D.; Beniamini, Paz; Margalit, Ben; Renzo, M.; Sironi, Lorenzo; Kovlakas, Konstantinos

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac0140

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“…A second possibility that does not rely on such mass (PRS) associated with FRB 20190520B were due to an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH), the surrounding material may account for the FRB's time-and frequency-dependent polarization effects. The prompt radio emission could be produced by a nearby neutron star (41), as with J1745-2900, or even by the accretion disk itself (42)(43)(44).…”

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A Highly Variable Magnetized Environment in a Fast Radio Burst Source

Anna-Thomas¹,

Connor²,

Burke-Spolaor³

et al. 2022

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A Highly Variable Magnetized Environment in a Fast Radio Burst Source

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Connor²,

Burke-Spolaor³

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“…Gu et al 2020;Lyutikov et al 2020;Ioka & Zhang 2020;Kuerban et al 2021;Du et al 2021;Wada et al 2021), it is precessing (e.g. Levin et al 2020;Sob'yanin 2020;Zanazzi & Lai 2020;Sridhar et al 2021), or that it has a thus far unobserved slow period (Beniamini et al 2020).…”

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The FRB 20121102A November rain in 2018 observed with the Arecibo Telescope

Spitler¹,

Nimmo²,

Hewitt³

et al. 2022

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We present 849 new bursts from FRB 20121102A detected with the 305-m Arecibo Telescope. Observations were conducted as part of our regular campaign to monitor the activity and evolution of burst properties. The 10 reported observations were carried out between 1150 and 1730 MHz and fall in the active period around November 2018. All bursts were dedispersed at the same dispersion measure and are consistent with a single value of (562.4 ± 0.1) pc cm −3 . The burst rate varies between 0 bursts and 218 ± 16 bursts per hour, the highest rate observed to date. The times between consecutive bursts show a bimodal distribution. We find that arrival times with separations > 0.1 s are best described as a Poisson process with varying rate, compared to models with additional parameters. Clustering on time-scales of 22 ms is reflecting a characteristic time-scale of the source and possibly the emission mechanism. We analyse the spectro-temporal structure of the bursts by fitting 2D Gaussians with a temporal drift to each sub-burst in the dynamic spectra. We find a linear relationship between the sub-burst's drift and its duration. At the same time the drifts are consistent with coming from the sad-trombone effect. This has not been predicted by current models. The energy distribution shows an excess of high energy bursts and is insufficiently modeled by a single power-law even within single observations. We find long-term changes in the energy distribution and the average spectrum compared to earlier and later published observations. Finally, despite the large burst rate we find no strict short-term periodicity.

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“…No clear correlation between frequency and phase has yet been observed for this FRB. The wide range of long-term periods observed in FRBs 20180916B and 20121102A are reminiscent of the observed orbital periods of high mass X-ray binary systems of a neutron star in orbit with a massive O/B star [107,127,128]. Additionally, a precessing magnetar could also be responsible for the observed periodicity in the two FRBs [106,129,130].…”

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A Decade and a Half of Fast Radio Burst Observations

Caleb

Keane

2021

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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have a story which has been told and retold many times over the past few years as they have sparked excitement and controversy since their pioneering discovery in 2007. The FRB class encompasses a number of microsecond- to millisecond-duration pulses occurring at Galactic to cosmological distances with energies spanning about 8 orders of magnitude. While most FRBs have been observed as singular events, a small fraction of them have been observed to repeat over various timescales leading to an apparent dichotomy in the population. ∼50 unique progenitor theories have been proposed, but no consensus has emerged for their origin(s). However, with the discovery of an FRB-like pulse from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154, magnetar engine models are the current leading theory. Overall, FRB pulses exhibit unique characteristics allowing us to probe line-of-sight magnetic field strengths, inhomogeneities in the intergalactic/interstellar media, and plasma turbulence through an assortment of extragalactic and cosmological propagation effects. Consequently, they are formidable tools to study the Universe. This review follows the progress of the field between 2007 and 2020 and presents the science highlights of the radio observations.

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Periodic Fast Radio Bursts from Luminous X-ray Binaries

Cited by 68 publications

References 208 publications

A Highly Variable Magnetized Environment in a Fast Radio Burst Source

A Highly Variable Magnetized Environment in a Fast Radio Burst Source

The FRB 20121102A November rain in 2018 observed with the Arecibo Telescope

A Decade and a Half of Fast Radio Burst Observations

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