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author Cook, Amanda M.
Scholz, Paul
Pearlman, Aaron B.
Abbott, Thomas C.
Cruces, Marilyn
Gaensler, B. M.
Fengqiu
Dong
Michilli, Daniele
Eadie, Gwendolyn
Kaspi, Victoria M.
Stairs, Ingrid
Tan, Chia Min
Bhardwaj, Mohit
Cassanelli, Tomas
Curtin, Alice P.
Ibik, Adaeze L.
Lazda, Mattias
Masui, Kiyoshi W.
Pandhi, Ayush
Rafiei-Ravandi, Masoud
Sammons, Mawson W.
Shin, Kaitlyn
Smith, Kendrick
Stenning, David C.
author_facet Cook, Amanda M.
Scholz, Paul
Pearlman, Aaron B.
Abbott, Thomas C.
Cruces, Marilyn
Gaensler, B. M.
Fengqiu
Dong
Michilli, Daniele
Eadie, Gwendolyn
Kaspi, Victoria M.
Stairs, Ingrid
Tan, Chia Min
Bhardwaj, Mohit
Cassanelli, Tomas
Curtin, Alice P.
Ibik, Adaeze L.
Lazda, Mattias
Masui, Kiyoshi W.
Pandhi, Ayush
Rafiei-Ravandi, Masoud
Sammons, Mawson W.
Shin, Kaitlyn
Smith, Kendrick
Stenning, David C.
contents We present an extensive contemporaneous X-ray and radio campaign performed on the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20220912A for eight weeks immediately following the source's detection by CHIME/FRB. This includes X-ray data from XMM-Newton, NICER, and Swift, and radio detections of FRB 20220912A from CHIME/Pulsar and Effelsberg. We detect no significant X-ray emission at the time of 30 radio bursts with upper limits on $0.5-10.0$ keV X-ray fluence of $(1.5-14.5)\times 10^{-10}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ (99.7% credible interval, unabsorbed) on a timescale of 100 ms. Translated into a fluence ratio $η_{\text{ x/r}} = F_{\text{X-ray}}/F_{\text{radio}}$, this corresponds to $η_{\text{ x/r}} < 7\times10^{6}$. For persistent emission from the location of FRB 20220912A, we derive a 99.7% $0.5-10.0$ keV isotropic flux limit of $8.8\times 10^{-15}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (unabsorbed) or an isotropic luminosity limit of 1.4$\times10^{41}$ erg s$^{-1}$ at a distance of 362.4 Mpc. We derive a hierarchical extension to the standard Bayesian treatment of low-count and background-contaminated X-ray data, which allows the robust combination of multiple observations. This methodology allows us to place the best (lowest) 99.7% credible interval upper limit on an FRB $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ to date, $η_{\text{ x/r}} < 2\times10^6$, assuming that all thirty detected radio bursts are associated with X-ray bursts with the same fluence ratio. If we instead adopt an X-ray spectrum similar to the X-ray burst observed contemporaneously with FRB-like emission from Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 detected on 2020 April 28, we derive a 99.7% credible interval upper limit on $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ of $8\times10^5$, which is only 3 times the observed value of $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ for SGR 1935+2154.
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spellingShingle Contemporaneous X-ray Observations of 30 Bright Radio Bursts from the Prolific Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20220912A
Cook, Amanda M.
Scholz, Paul
Pearlman, Aaron B.
Abbott, Thomas C.
Cruces, Marilyn
Gaensler, B. M.
Fengqiu
Dong
Michilli, Daniele
Eadie, Gwendolyn
Kaspi, Victoria M.
Stairs, Ingrid
Tan, Chia Min
Bhardwaj, Mohit
Cassanelli, Tomas
Curtin, Alice P.
Ibik, Adaeze L.
Lazda, Mattias
Masui, Kiyoshi W.
Pandhi, Ayush
Rafiei-Ravandi, Masoud
Sammons, Mawson W.
Shin, Kaitlyn
Smith, Kendrick
Stenning, David C.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
We present an extensive contemporaneous X-ray and radio campaign performed on the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20220912A for eight weeks immediately following the source's detection by CHIME/FRB. This includes X-ray data from XMM-Newton, NICER, and Swift, and radio detections of FRB 20220912A from CHIME/Pulsar and Effelsberg. We detect no significant X-ray emission at the time of 30 radio bursts with upper limits on $0.5-10.0$ keV X-ray fluence of $(1.5-14.5)\times 10^{-10}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ (99.7% credible interval, unabsorbed) on a timescale of 100 ms. Translated into a fluence ratio $η_{\text{ x/r}} = F_{\text{X-ray}}/F_{\text{radio}}$, this corresponds to $η_{\text{ x/r}} < 7\times10^{6}$. For persistent emission from the location of FRB 20220912A, we derive a 99.7% $0.5-10.0$ keV isotropic flux limit of $8.8\times 10^{-15}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (unabsorbed) or an isotropic luminosity limit of 1.4$\times10^{41}$ erg s$^{-1}$ at a distance of 362.4 Mpc. We derive a hierarchical extension to the standard Bayesian treatment of low-count and background-contaminated X-ray data, which allows the robust combination of multiple observations. This methodology allows us to place the best (lowest) 99.7% credible interval upper limit on an FRB $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ to date, $η_{\text{ x/r}} < 2\times10^6$, assuming that all thirty detected radio bursts are associated with X-ray bursts with the same fluence ratio. If we instead adopt an X-ray spectrum similar to the X-ray burst observed contemporaneously with FRB-like emission from Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 detected on 2020 April 28, we derive a 99.7% credible interval upper limit on $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ of $8\times10^5$, which is only 3 times the observed value of $η_{\text{ x/r}}$ for SGR 1935+2154.
title Contemporaneous X-ray Observations of 30 Bright Radio Bursts from the Prolific Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20220912A
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11895