A Nan\c{c}ay Radio Telescope study of the hyperactive repeating FRB 20220912A
| Autor: | Konijn, David C., Hewitt, Danté M., Hessels, Jason W. T., Cognard, Ismaël, Huang, Jeff, Ould-Boukattine, Omar S., Chawla, Pragya, Nimmo, Kenzie, Snelders, Mark P., Gopinath, Akshatha, Manaswini, Ninisha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20220912A was remarkably active in the weeks after its discovery. Here we report 696 bursts detected with the Nan\c{c}ay Radio Telescope (NRT) as part of the Extragalactic Coherent Light from Astrophysical Transients (\'ECLAT) monitoring campaign. We present 68 observations, conducted from October 2022 to April 2023, with a total duration of 61 hours and an event rate peaking at $75^{+10}_{-9}$ bursts per hour above a fluence threshold of 0.59 Jy ms in the $1.2-1.7$-GHz band. Most bursts in the sample occur towards the bottom of the observing band. They follow a bimodal wait-time distribution, with peaks at 33.4 ms and 67.0 s. We find a roughly constant dispersion measure (DM) over time ($\delta$DM $\lesssim$ 2 pc cm$^{-3}$) when taking into account `sad-trombone' drift, with a mean drift rate of $-8.8 $MHz ms$^{-1}$. Nonetheless, we confirm small $\sim0.3$ pc cm$^{-3}$ DM variations using microshot structure, while finding that microstructure is rare in our sample -- despite the 16 $\mu$s time resolution of the data. The cumulative spectral energy distribution shows more high-energy bursts ($E_\nu \gtrsim 10^{31}$ erg/Hz) than would be expected from a simple power-law distribution. The burst rate per observation appears Poissonian, but the full set of observations is better modelled by a Weibull distribution, showing clustering. We discuss the various observational similarities that FRB 20220912A shares with other (hyper)active repeaters, which as a group are beginning to show a common set of phenomenological traits that provide multiple useful dimensions for their quantitative comparison and modelling. Comment: 18 pages, 20 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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