A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up

E Petroff; M Bailes; E D Barr; B R Barsdell; N D R Bhat; F Bian; S Burke-Spolaor; M Caleb; D Champion; P Chandra; G Da Costa; C Delvaux; C Flynn; N Gehrels; J Greiner; A Jameson; S Johnston; M M Kasliwal; E F Keane; S Keller; J Kocz; M Kramer; G Leloudas; D Malesani; J S Mulchaey; C Ng; E O Ofek; D A Perley; A Possenti; B P Schmidt; Yue Shen; B Stappers; P Tisserand; W van Straten; C Wolf

doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2419

A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up

E Petroff, M Bailes, E D Barr, B R Barsdell, N D R Bhat, F Bian, S Burke-Spolaor, M Caleb, D Champion, P Chandra, G Da Costa, C Delvaux, C Flynn, N Gehrels, J Greiner, A Jameson, S Johnston, M M Kasliwal, E F Keane, S KellerJ Kocz, M Kramer, G Leloudas, D Malesani, J S Mulchaey, C Ng, E O Ofek, D A Perley, A Possenti, B P Schmidt, Yue Shen, B Stappers, P Tisserand, W van Straten, C Wolf

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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most tantalizing mysteries of the radio sky; their progenitors and origins remain unknown and until now no rapid multiwavelength follow-up of an FRB has been possible. New instrumentation has decreased the time between observation and discovery from years to seconds, and enables polarimetry to be performed on FRBs for the first time. We have discovered an FRB (FRB 140514) in real-time on 2014 May 14 at 17:14:11.06 UTC at the Parkes radio telescope and triggered follow-up at other wavelengths within hours of the event. FRB 140514 was found with a dispersion measure (DM) of 562.7(6) cm^-3 pc, giving an upper limit on source redshift of z ≲ 0.5. FRB 140514 was found to be 21 ± 7 per cent (3σ) circularly polarized on the leading edge with a 1σ upper limit on linear polarization

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	246-255
Number of pages	10
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	447
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2419
Publication status	Published - 11 Feb 2015

Keywords

polarization
radiation mechanisms: general
intergalactic medium
radio continuum: general

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Petroff, E., Bailes, M., Barr, E. D., Barsdell, B. R., Bhat, N. D. R., Bian, F., Burke-Spolaor, S., Caleb, M., Champion, D., Chandra, P., Da Costa, G., Delvaux, C., Flynn, C., Gehrels, N., Greiner, J., Jameson, A., Johnston, S., Kasliwal, M. M., Keane, E. F., ... Wolf, C. (2015). A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447, 246-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2419

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A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up

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