An extremely active repeating fast radio burst source in a likely non-magneto-ionic environment
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| author | Feng, Yi Li, Di Zhang, Yong-Kun Tsai, Chao-Wei Wang, Wei-Yang Yang, Yuan-Pei Qu, Yuanhong Wang, Pei Zhou, Dengke Niu, Jiarui Miao, Chenchen Yuan, Mao Xu, Jiaying Lynch, Ryan S. Armentrout, Will Gregory, Brenne Meng, Lingqi Wang, Shen Chen, Xianglei Dai, Shi Niu, Chen-Hui Xue, Mengyao Yao, Ju-Mei Zhang, Bing Zhang, Junshuo Zhu, Weiwei Zhu, Yuhao |
| author_facet | Feng, Yi Li, Di Zhang, Yong-Kun Tsai, Chao-Wei Wang, Wei-Yang Yang, Yuan-Pei Qu, Yuanhong Wang, Pei Zhou, Dengke Niu, Jiarui Miao, Chenchen Yuan, Mao Xu, Jiaying Lynch, Ryan S. Armentrout, Will Gregory, Brenne Meng, Lingqi Wang, Shen Chen, Xianglei Dai, Shi Niu, Chen-Hui Xue, Mengyao Yao, Ju-Mei Zhang, Bing Zhang, Junshuo Zhu, Weiwei Zhu, Yuhao |
| contents | Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio bursts originating at cosmological distances. Only three repeating FRBs FRB 20121102A, FRB 20190520B and FRB 20201124A among $\sim$ 60 known repeating FRBs have circular polarization. We observed the FRB 20220912A with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) at L-band on 24 October 2022 and detected 128 bursts in 1.4 hours, corresponding to a burst rate of about 90 hr$^{-1}$, which is the highest yet for FRBs observed by the GBT. The average rotation measure (RM) was $-$0.4$\pm$0.3$\,$rad$\,$m$^{-2}$ with negligible intraday RM change, indicating a likely non-magneto-ionic environment. 61% bursts have linear polarization fraction greater than 90%. Approximately 56% of the bright bursts have circular polarization. A downward drift in frequency and polarization angle swings were found in our sample. The characterization of FRB 20220912A indicates that the circular polarization is unlikely to be caused by the magneto-ionic environment for at least some of the repeating FRB population. |
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| spellingShingle | An extremely active repeating fast radio burst source in a likely non-magneto-ionic environment Feng, Yi Li, Di Zhang, Yong-Kun Tsai, Chao-Wei Wang, Wei-Yang Yang, Yuan-Pei Qu, Yuanhong Wang, Pei Zhou, Dengke Niu, Jiarui Miao, Chenchen Yuan, Mao Xu, Jiaying Lynch, Ryan S. Armentrout, Will Gregory, Brenne Meng, Lingqi Wang, Shen Chen, Xianglei Dai, Shi Niu, Chen-Hui Xue, Mengyao Yao, Ju-Mei Zhang, Bing Zhang, Junshuo Zhu, Weiwei Zhu, Yuhao High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio bursts originating at cosmological distances. Only three repeating FRBs FRB 20121102A, FRB 20190520B and FRB 20201124A among $\sim$ 60 known repeating FRBs have circular polarization. We observed the FRB 20220912A with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) at L-band on 24 October 2022 and detected 128 bursts in 1.4 hours, corresponding to a burst rate of about 90 hr$^{-1}$, which is the highest yet for FRBs observed by the GBT. The average rotation measure (RM) was $-$0.4$\pm$0.3$\,$rad$\,$m$^{-2}$ with negligible intraday RM change, indicating a likely non-magneto-ionic environment. 61% bursts have linear polarization fraction greater than 90%. Approximately 56% of the bright bursts have circular polarization. A downward drift in frequency and polarization angle swings were found in our sample. The characterization of FRB 20220912A indicates that the circular polarization is unlikely to be caused by the magneto-ionic environment for at least some of the repeating FRB population. |
| title | An extremely active repeating fast radio burst source in a likely non-magneto-ionic environment |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14671 |