We present projected Fast Radio Burst detection rates from surveys carried out using a set of hypothetical close-packed array telescopes. The cost efficiency of such a survey falls at least as fast as the inverse square of the survey frequency. There is an optimum array element effective area in the range 0 to 25 m2. If the power law index of the FRB integrated source count versus fluence α=dlnR/dlnF>−1 the most cost effective telescope layout uses individual dipole elements, which provides an all-sky field of view. If α<−1 dish arrays are more cost effective.
@article{arxiv.2001.06526,
title = {Optimization of Radio Array Telescopes to Search for Fast RadioBursts},
author = {Jeffrey B Peterson and Kevin Bandura and Pranav Sanghavi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06526},
year = {2020}
}