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A SEARCH FOR FAST RADIO BURSTS AT LOW FREQUENCIES WITH MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY HIGH TIME RESOLUTION IMAGING
SJ Tingay, CM Trott, RB Wayth, G Bernardi, JD Bowman, F Briggs, RJ Cappallo, AA Deshpande, L Feng, BM Gaensler, LJ Greenhill, PJ Hancock, BJ Hazelton, M Johnston-Hollitt, DL Kaplan, CJ Lonsdale, SR McWhirter, DA Mitchell, MF Morales, E Morgan Show all
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | Published : 2015
Abstract
We present the results of a pilot study search for fast radio bursts (FRBs) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) at low frequencies (139-170 MHz). We utilized MWA data obtained in a routine imaging mode from observations where the primary target was a field being studied for Epoch of Reionization detection. We formed images with 2 s time resolution and 1.28 MHz frequency resolution for 10.5 hr of observations, over 400 square degrees of the sky. We de-dispersed the dynamic spectrum in each of 372,100 resolution elements of 2 ×2 arcmin2, between dispersion measures of 170 and 675 pc cm-3. Based on the event rate calculations in Trott et al., which assume a standard candle luminosity of 8..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Fellowship
Awarded by U.S. National Science Foundation
Awarded by Australian Research Council (LIEF)
Awarded by U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Awarded by Centre for All-sky Astrophysics (an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence)
Awarded by Victoria University of Wellington from the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development
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Funding Acknowledgements
C.M.T. is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Fellowship (DE140100316). This scientific work makes use of the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, operated by CSIRO. We acknowledge the Wajarri Yamatji people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site. Support for the MWA comes from the U.S. National Science Foundation (grants AST-0457585, PHY-0835713, CAREER-0847753, and AST-0908884), the Australian Research Council (LIEF grants LE0775621 and LE0882938), the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (grant FA9550-0510247), and the Centre for All-sky Astrophysics (an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence funded by grant CE110001020). Support is also provided by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the MIT School of Science, the Raman Research Institute, the Australian National University, and the Victoria University of Wellington (via grant MED-E1799 from the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development and an IBM Shared University Research Grant). The Australian Federal government provides additional support via the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, Education Investment Fund, and the Australia India Strategic Research Fund, and Astronomy Australia Limited, under contract to Curtin University. We acknowledge the iVEC Petabyte Data Store, the Initiative in Innovative Computing and the CUDA Center for Excellence sponsored by NVIDIA at Harvard University, and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), a Joint Venture of Curtin University and The University of Western Australia, funded by the Western Australian State government.