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FRBCAT: The Fast Radio Burst Catalogue

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-09-21 v1

Abstract

Here we present a catalogue of known Fast Radio Burst (FRB) sources in the form of an online catalogue, FRBCAT. The catalogue includes information about the instrumentation used for the observations for each detected burst, the measured quantities from each observation, and model-dependent quantities derived from observed quantities. To aid in consistent comparisons of burst properties such as width and signal-to-noise ratios we have reprocessed all the bursts for which we have access to the raw data, with software which we make available. The originally derived properties are also listed for comparison. The catalogue is hosted online as a MySQL database which can also be downloaded in tabular or plain text format for off-line use. This database will be maintained for use by the community for studies of the FRB population as it grows.

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@article{arxiv.1601.03547,
  title  = {FRBCAT: The Fast Radio Burst Catalogue},
  author = {E. Petroff and E. D. Barr and A. Jameson and E. F. Keane and M. Bailes and M. Kramer and V. Morello and D. Tabbara and W. van Straten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.03547},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure, submitted to PASA