| Title: |
A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude |
| Authors: |
Petroff, E; Burke-Spolaor, S; Keane, EF; McLaughlin, MA; Miller, R; Andreoni, I; Bailes, M; Barr, ED; Bernard, SR; Bhandari, S; Bhat, NDR; Burgay, M; Caleb, M; Champion, D; Chandra, P; Cooke, J; Dhillon, VS; Farnes, JS; Hardy, LK; Jaroenjittichai, P; Johnston, S; Kasliwal, M; Kramer, M; Littlefair, SP; Macquart, JP; Mickaliger, M; Possenti, A; Pritchard, T; Ravi, V; Rest, A; Rowlinson, A; Sawangwit, U; Stappers, B; Sullivan, M; Tiburzi, C; van Straten, W; Albert, A; André, M; Ardid, M; Aubert, J-J; Avgitas, T; Baret, B; Barrios-Martí, J; Basa, S; Bormuth, R; Bouwhuis, MC; Brunner, J; Busto, J; Capone, A; Caramete, L; Carr, J; Chiarusi, T; Circella, M; Coleiro, A; Coniglione, R; Costantini, H; Coyle, P; De Bonis, G; Distefano, C; Palma, ID; Dornic, D; Drouhin, D; Eberl, T; Bojaddaini, I; Elsässer, D; Enzenhöfer, A; Felis, I; Fusco, LA; Galatà, S; Gay, P; Geißelsöder, S; Geyer, K; Giordano, V; Gleixner, A; Glotin, H; Grégoire, T; Gracia-Ruiz, R; Graf, K; Hallmann, S; van Haren, H; Heijboer, AJ; Hello, Y; Hernández-Rey, JJ; Hößl, J; Hofestädt, J; Hugon, C; Illuminati, G; James, CW; de Jong, M; Jongen, M; Kadler, M; Kalekin, O; Katz, U; Kießling, D; Kouchner, A; Kreter, M; Kreykenbohm, I; Kulikovskiy, V; Lachaud, C; Lahmann, R; Lefèvre, D; Leonora, E; Lotze, M; Loucatos, S; Marcelin, M; Margiotta, A; Marinelli, A; Martínez-Mora, JA; Mathieu, A; Mele, R; Melis, K; Michael, T; Migliozzi, P; Moussa, A; Mueller, C; Nezri, E; Păvălaş, GE; Pellegrino, C; Perrina, C; Piattelli, P; Popa, V; Pradier, T; Quinn, L; Racca, C; Riccobene, G; Roensch, K; Sánchez-Losa, A; Saldaña, M; Salvadori, I; Samtleben, DFE; Sanguineti, M; Sapienza, P; Schnabel, J; Seitz, T; Sieger, C; Spurio, M; Stolarczyk, T; Taiuti, M; Tayalati, Y; Trovato, A; Tselengidou, M; Turpin, D; Tönnis, C; Vallage, B; Vallée, C; Van Elewyck, V; Vivolo, D; Vizzoca, A; Wagner, S; Wilms, J; Zornoza, JD; Zúñiga, J; Abdalla, H; Abramowski, A; Aharonian, F; Benkhali, FA; Akhperjanian, AG; Andersson, T; Angüner, EO; Arrieta, M; Aubert, P; Backes, M; Balzer, A; Barnard, M; Becherini, Y; Tjus, J; Berge, D; Bernhard, S; Bernlöhr, K; Blackwell, R; Böttcher, M; Boisson, C; Bolmont, J; Bordas, P; Bregeon, J; Brun, F; Brun, P; Bryan, M; Bulik, T; Capasso, M; Casanova, S; Cerruti, M; Chakraborty, N; Chalme-Calvet, R; Chaves, RCG; Chen, A; Chevalier, J; Chrétien, M; Colafrancesco, S; Cologna, G; Condon, B; Conrad, J; Cui, Y; Davids, ID; Decock, J; Degrange, B; Deil, C; Devin, J; deWilt, P; Dirson, L; Djannati-Ataï, A; Domainko, W; Donath, A; Drury, LOC; Dubus, G; Dutson, K; Dyks, J; Edwards, T; Egberts, K; Eger, P; Ernenwein, J-P; Eschbach, S; Farnier, C; Fegan, S; Fernandes, MV; Fiasson, A; Fontaine, G; Förster, A; Funk, S; Füßling, M; Gabici, S; Gajdus, M; Gallant, YA; Garrigoux, T; Giavitto, G; Giebels, B; Glicenstein, JF; Gottschall, D; Goyal, A; Grondin, M-H; Hadasch, D; Hahn, J; Haupt, M; Hawkes, J; Heinzelmann, G; Henri, G; Hermann, G; Hervet, O; Hinton, JA; Hofmann, W; Hoischen, C; Holler, M; Horns, D; Ivascenko, A; Jacholkowska, A; Jamrozy, M; Janiak, M; Jankowsky, D; Jankowsky, F; Jingo, M; Jogler, T; Jouvin, L; Jung-Richardt, I; Kastendieck, MA; Katarzyński, K; Kerszberg, D; Khélifi, B; Kieffer, M; King, J; Klepser, S; Klochkov, D; Kluźniak, W; Kolitzus, D; Komin, N; Krakau, S; Kraus, M; Krayzel, F; Krüger, PP; Laffon, H; Lamanna, G; Lau, J; Lees, J-P; Lefaucheur, J; Lefranc, V; Lemière, A; Lemoine-Goumard, M; Lenain, J-P; Leser, E; Lohse, T; Lorentz, M; Liu, R; López-Coto, R; Lypova, I; Marandon, V; Marcowith, A; Mariaud, C; Marx, R; Maurin, G; Maxted, N; Mayer, M; Meintjes, PJ; Meyer, M; Mitchell, AMW; Moderski, R; Mohamed, M; Mohrmann, L; Morå, K; Moulin, E; Murach, T; de Naurois, M; Niederwanger, F; Niemiec, J; Oakes, L; O’Brien, P; Odaka, H; Öttl, S; Ohm, S; Ostrowski, M; Oya, I; Padovani, M; Panter, M; Parsons, RD; Pekeur, NW; Pelletier, G; Perennes, C; Petrucci, P-O; Peyaud, B; Piel, Q; Pita, S; Poon, H; Prokhorov, D; Prokoph, H; Pühlhofer, G; Punch, M; Quirrenbach, A; Raab, S; Reimer, A; Reimer, O; Renaud, M; Reyes, RDL; Rieger, F; Romoli, C; Rosier-Lees, S; Rowell, G; Rudak, B; Rulten, CB; Sahakian, V; Salek, D; Sanchez, DA; Santangelo, A; Sasaki, M; Schlickeiser, R; Schulz, A; Schüssler, F; Schwanke, U; Schwemmer, S; Settimo, M; Seyffert, AS; Shafi, N; Shilon, I; Simoni, R; Sol, H; Spanier, F; Spengler, G; Spies, F; Stawarz, Ł; Steenkamp, R; Stegmann, C; Stinzing, F; Stycz, K; Sushch, I; Tavernet, J-P; Tavernier, T; Taylor, AM; Terrier, R; Tibaldo, L; Tiziani, D; Tluczykont, M; Trichard, C; Tuffs, R; Uchiyama, Y; Walt, DJVD; van Eldik, C; van Rensburg, C; van Soelen, B; Vasileiadis, G; Veh, J; Venter, C; Viana, A; Vincent, P; Vink, J; Voisin, F; Völk, HJ; Vuillaume, T; Wadiasingh, Z; Wagner, SJ; Wagner, P; Wagner, RM; White, R; Wierzcholska, A; Willmann, P; Wörnlein, A; Wouters, D; Yang, R; Zabalza, V; Zaborov, D; Zacharias, M; Zanin, R; Zdziarski, AA; Zech, A; Zefi, F; Ziegler, A; Żywucka, N |
| Publisher Information: |
Oxford University Press |
| Publication Year: |
2018 |
| Collection: |
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) |
| Description: |
We report on the discovery of a new fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 150215, with the Parkes radio telescope on 2015 February 15. The burst was detected in real time with a dispersion measure (DM) of 1105.6 ± 0.8 pc cm -3 , a pulse duration of 2.8 +1.2 -0.5 ms, and a measured peak flux density assuming that the burst was at beam centre of 0.7 +0.2 -0.1 Jy. The FRB originated at a Galactic longitude and latitude of 24.66°, 5.28° and 25° away from the Galactic Center. The burst was found to be 43 ± 5 per cent linearly polarized with a rotation measure (RM) in the range -9 < RM < 12 radm -2 (95 per cent confidence level), consistent with zero. The burst was followed up with 11 telescopes to search for radio, optical, X-ray, γ -ray and neutrino emission. Neither transient nor variable emission was found to be associated with the burst and no repeat pulses have been observed in 17.25 h of observing. The sightline to the burst is close to the Galactic plane and the observed physical properties of FRB 150215 demonstrate the existence of sight lines of anomalously low RM for a given electron column density. The Galactic RM foreground may approach a null value due to magnetic field reversals along the line of sight, a decreased total electron column density from the Milky Way, or some combination of these effects. A lower Galactic DM contribution might explain why this burst was detectable whereas previous searches at low latitude have had lower detection rates than those out of the plane. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1098 |
| DOI: |
10.1093/mnras/stx1098 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1098; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:307f78e1-1d74-4531-b48e-4a86003e3638 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.B1480888 |
| Database: |
BASE |