Morphology of 35 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources at Microsecond Time Scales with CHIME/FRB
Abstract
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) project has discovered the most repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources of any telescope. However, most of the physical conclusions derived from this sample are based on data with a time resolution of 1 ms. In this work, we present for the first time a morphological analysis of the raw voltage data for 124 bursts from 35 of CHIME/FRB's repeating sources. We do not find any significant correlations amongst fluence, dispersion measure (DM), burst rate, and burst duration. Performing the first large-scale morphological comparison at timescales down to microseconds between our repeating sources and 125 non-repeating FRBs, we find that repeaters are narrower in frequency and broader in duration than non-repeaters, supporting previous findings. However, we find that the duration-normalized sub-burst widths of the two populations are consistent, possibly suggesting a shared physical emission mechanism. Additionally, we find that the spectral fluences of the two are consistent. When combined with the larger bandwidths and previously found larger DMs of non-repeaters, this suggests that non-repeaters may have higher intrinsic specific energies than repeating FRBs. We do not find any consistent increase or decrease in the DM ( pc cm yr) and scattering timescales ( ms yr) of our sources over year periods.
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@article{arxiv.2411.02870,
title = {Morphology of 35 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources at Microsecond Time Scales with CHIME/FRB},
author = {Alice P. Curtin and Ketan R. Sand and Ziggy Pleunis and Naman Jain and Victoria Kaspi and Daniele Michilli and Emmanuel Fonseca and Kaitlyn Shin and Kenzie Nimmo and Charanjot Brar and Fengqiu Adam Dong and Gwendolyn M. Eadie and B. M. Gaensler and Antonio Herrera-Martin and Adaeze L. Ibik and Ronny C. Joseph and Jane Kaczmarek and Calvin Leung and Robert Main and Kiyoshi W. Masui and Ryan McKinven and Juan Mena-Parra and Cherry Ng and Ayush Pandhi and Aaron B. Pearlman and Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi and Mawson W. Sammons and Paul Scholz and Kendrick Smith and Ingrid Stairs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.02870},
year = {2025}
}
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29 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables; Accepted in ApJ