Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend

Karastergiou A, Chennamangalam J, Armour W, Williams C, Mort B, Dulwich F, Salvini S, Magro A, Roberts S, Serylak M, Doo A, et al. (2015)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 452(2): 1254-1262.

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Karastergiou, A.; Chennamangalam, J.; Armour, W.; Williams, C.; Mort, B.; Dulwich, F.; Salvini, S.; Magro, A.; Roberts, S.; Serylak, M.; Doo, A.; Bilous, A. V.
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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond radio signals that exhibit dispersion larger than what the Galactic electron density can account for. We have conducted a 1446 h survey for FRBs at 145 MHz, covering a total of 4193 deg(2) on the sky. We used the UK station of the low frequency array (LOFAR) radio telescope - the Rawlings Array - accompanied for a majority of the time by the LOFAR station at Nanc, ay, observing the same fields at the same frequency. Our real-time search backend, Advanced Radio Transient Event Monitor and Identification System - ARTEMIS, utilizes graphics processing units to search for pulses with dispersion measures up to 320 cm(-3) pc. Previous derived FRB rates from surveys around 1.4 GHz, and favoured FRB interpretations, motivated this survey, despite all previous detections occurring at higher dispersion measures. We detected no new FRBs above a signal-to-noise threshold of 10, leading to the most stringent upper limit yet on the FRB event rate at these frequencies: 29 sky(-1) d(-1) for five ms-duration pulses above 62 Jy. The non- detection could be due to scatter-broadening, limitations on the volume and time searched, or the shape of FRB flux density spectra. Assuming the latter and that FRBs are standard candles, the non- detection is compatible with the published FRB sky rate, if their spectra follow a power law with frequency (proportional to v(alpha)), with alpha >= +0.1, demonstrating a marked difference from pulsar spectra. Our results suggest that surveys at higher frequencies, including the low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array, will have better chances to detect, estimate rates and understand the origin and properties of FRBs.
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instrumentation: miscellaneous; pulsars: general
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Zeitschriftentitel
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Band
452
Ausgabe
2
Seite(n)
1254-1262
ISSN
0035-8711
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2780365

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Karastergiou A, Chennamangalam J, Armour W, et al. Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2015;452(2):1254-1262.
Karastergiou, A., Chennamangalam, J., Armour, W., Williams, C., Mort, B., Dulwich, F., Salvini, S., et al. (2015). Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(2), 1254-1262. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1306
Karastergiou, A., Chennamangalam, J., Armour, W., Williams, C., Mort, B., Dulwich, F., Salvini, S., et al. 2015. “Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 452 (2): 1254-1262.
Karastergiou, A., Chennamangalam, J., Armour, W., Williams, C., Mort, B., Dulwich, F., Salvini, S., Magro, A., Roberts, S., Serylak, M., et al. (2015). Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 452, 1254-1262.
Karastergiou, A., et al., 2015. Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(2), p 1254-1262.
A. Karastergiou, et al., “Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 452, 2015, pp. 1254-1262.
Karastergiou, A., Chennamangalam, J., Armour, W., Williams, C., Mort, B., Dulwich, F., Salvini, S., Magro, A., Roberts, S., Serylak, M., Doo, A., Bilous, A.V., Breton, R.P., Falcke, H., Griessmeier, J.-M., Hessels, J.W.T., Keane, E.F., Kondratiev, V.I., Kramer, M., van Leeuwen, J., Noutsos, A., Oslowski, S., Sobey, C., Stappers, B.W., Weltevrede, P.: Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 452, 1254-1262 (2015).
Karastergiou, A., Chennamangalam, J., Armour, W., Williams, C., Mort, B., Dulwich, F., Salvini, S., Magro, A., Roberts, S., Serylak, M., Doo, A., Bilous, A. V., Breton, R. P., Falcke, H., Griessmeier, J. -M., Hessels, J. W. T., Keane, E. F., Kondratiev, V. I., Kramer, M., van Leeuwen, J., Noutsos, A., Oslowski, Stefan, Sobey, C., Stappers, B. W., and Weltevrede, P. “Limits on fast radio bursts at 145 MHz with ARTEMIS, a real-time software backend”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 452.2 (2015): 1254-1262.
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