We present very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the hyperactive repeating FRB 20220912A using the European VLBI Network (EVN) with an EVN-Lite setup. We detected 150 bursts from FRB 20220912A over two observing epochs in October 2022. Combining the data of these bursts allows us to localise FRB 20220912A to a precision of a few milliarcseconds, corresponding to a transverse scale of less than 10 pc at the distance of the source. The precision of this localisation shows that FRB 20220912A lies closer to the centre of its host galaxy than previously found, although still significantly offset from the host galaxy's nucleus. On arcsecond scales, FRB 20220912A is coincident with a persistent continuum radio source known from archival observations, however, we find no compact persistent emission on milliarcsecond scales. The persistent radio emission is thus likely to be from star-formation in the host galaxy. This is in contrast to some other active FRBs, such as FRB 20121102A and FRB 20190520B.
@article{arxiv.2312.14490,
title = {Milliarcsecond Localisation of the Hyperactive Repeating FRB 20220912A},
author = {Danté M. Hewitt and Shivani Bhandari and Benito Marcote and Jason W. T. Hessels and Kenzie Nimmo and Franz Kirsten and Uwe Bach and Vladislavs Bezrukovs and Mohit Bhardwaj and Richard Blaauw and Justin D. Bray and Salvatore Buttaccio and Alessandro Corongiu and Marcin P. Gawroński and Marcello Giroletti and Aard Keimpema and Giuseppe M. Maccaferri and Zsolt Paragi and Matteo Trudu and Mark P. Snelders and Tiziana Venturi and Na Wang and David R. A. Williams-Baldwin and Nicholas H. Wrigley and Jun Yang and Jianping P. Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14490},
year = {2023}
}
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13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS, comments most welcome