Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source

Autor: Amiri, M., Andersen, B. C., Bandura, K. M., Bhardwaj, M., Boyle, P. J., Brar, C., Chawla, P., Chen, T., Cliche, J. F., Cubranic, D., Deng, M., Denman, N. T., Dobbs, M., Dong, F. Q., Hill, A. S., Höfer, C., Josephy, A., Kania, J. W., Karuppusamy, R., Kaspi, V. M., Keimpema, A., Kirsten, F., Landecker, T. L., Lang, D. A., Leung, C., Li, D. Z., Lin, H.-H., Marcote, B., Masui, K. W., Mckinven, R., Mena-Parra, J., Merryfield, M., Michilli, D., Milutinovic, N., Mirhosseini, A., Naidu, A., Newburgh, L. B., Ng, C., Nimmo, K., Paragi, Z., Patel, C., Pen, U.-L., Pinsonneault-Marotte, T., Pleunis, Z., Rafiei-Ravandi, M, Rahman, M., Ransom, S. M., Renard, A., Sanghavi, P., Scholz, P., Shaw, J. R., Shin, K., Siegel, S. R., Singh, S., Smegal, R. J., Smith, K. M., Stairs, I. H., Tendulkar, S. P., Tretyakov, I., Vanderlinde, K., Wang, H., Wang, X., Wulf, D., Yadav, P., Zwaniga, A. V., The CHIME/FRB Collaboration
Přispěvatelé: High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature, 582(7812), 351-355. Nature Publishing Group
Nature
arXiv
ISSN: 0028-0836
Popis: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration radio transients originating from sources at extragalactic distances1, the origin of which is unknown. Some FRB sources emit repeat bursts, ruling out cataclysmic origins for those events2,3,4. Despite searches for periodicity in repeat burst arrival times on timescales from milliseconds to many days2,5,6,7, these bursts have hitherto been observed to appear sporadically and—although clustered8—without a regular pattern. Here we report observations of a 16.35 ± 0.15 day periodicity (or possibly a higher-frequency alias of that periodicity) from the repeating FRB 180916.J0158+65 detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project4,9. In 38 bursts recorded from 16 September 2018 to 4 February 2020 UTC, we find that all bursts arrive in a five-day phase window, and 50 per cent of the bursts arrive in a 0.6-day phase window. Our results suggest a mechanism for periodic modulation either of the burst emission itself or through external amplification or absorption, and disfavour models invoking purely sporadic processes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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