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Nine New Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources from CHIME/FRB

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-03-04 v2

Abstract

We report on the discovery and analysis of bursts from nine new repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources found using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. These sources span a dispersion measure (DM) range of 195 to 1380 pc cm3^{-3}. We detect two bursts from three of the new sources, three bursts from four of the new sources, four bursts from one new source, and five bursts from one new source. We determine sky coordinates of all sources with uncertainties of \sim10^\prime. We detect Faraday rotation measures for two sources, with values 20(1)-20(1) and 499.8(7)-499.8(7) rad m2^{-2}, that are substantially lower than the RM derived from bursts emitted by FRB 121102. We find that the DM distribution of our events, combined with the nine other repeaters discovered by CHIME/FRB, is indistinguishable from that of thus far non-repeating CHIME/FRB events. However, as previously reported, the burst widths appear statistically significantly larger than the thus far non-repeating CHIME/FRB events, further supporting the notion of inherently different emission mechanisms and/or local environments. These results are consistent with previous work, though are now derived from 18 repeating sources discovered by CHIME/FRB during its first year of operation. We identify candidate galaxies that may contain FRB 190303.J1353+48 (DM = 222.4 pc cm3^{-3}).

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@article{arxiv.2001.03595,
  title  = {Nine New Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources from CHIME/FRB},
  author = {E. Fonseca and B. C. Andersen and M. Bhardwaj and P. Chawla and D. C. Good and A. Josephy and V. M. Kaspi and K. W. Masui and R. Mckinven and D. Michilli and Z. Pleunis and K. Shin and S. P. Tendulkar and K. M. Bandura and P. J. Boyle and C. Brar and T. Cassanelli and D. Cubranic and M. Dobbs and F. Q. Dong and B. M. Gaensler and G. Hinshaw and T. L. Landecker and C. Leung and D. Z. Li and H. -H. Lin and J. Mena-Parra and M. Merryfield and A. Naidu and C. Ng and C. Patel and U. Pen and M. Rafiei-Ravandi and M. Rahman and S. M. Ransom and P. Scholz and K. M. Smith and I. H. Stairs and K. Vanderlinde and P. Yadav and A. V. Zwaniga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.03595},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Accepted for publication in ApJL