FRBCAT: The Fast Radio Burst Catalogue

By E. Petroff, E. Barr, A. Jameson, E. Keane, M. Bailes, Michael Kramer, V. Morello, D. Tabbara, Willem van Straten. Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, 2016

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Abstract Here, we present a catalogue of known Fast Radio Burst sources in the form of an online catalogue, FRBCAT. The catalogue includes information about the instrumentation used for the observations for each detected burst, the measured quantities from each observation, and model-dependent quantities derived from observed quantities. To aid in consistent comparisons of burst properties such as width and signal-to-noise ratios, we have re-processed all the bursts for which we have access to the raw data, with software which we make available. The originally derived properties are also listed for comparison. The catalogue is hosted online as a Mysql database which can also be downloaded in tabular or plain text format for off-line use. This database will be maintained for use by the community for studies of the Fast Radio Burst population as it grows.

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A Concordance Picture of FRB 121102 as a Flaring Magnetar Embedded in a Magnetized Ion–Electron Wind Nebula (2018, background): “…than a few milliseconds (Lorimer et al. 2007; Keane et al. 2012; Thornton et al. 2013; Spitler et al. 2014; Ravi et al. 2015; Champion et al. 2016; Petroff et al. 2016; Lawrence et al. 2017) with large dispersion measures (DMs; DM ≈300–2000 pc cm−3), well above the contribution from the Milky Way…”
The Host Galaxies and Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts Localized with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (2020, unknown): “Around 100 FRBs have now been discovered, with Parkes, Arecibo, Green Bank, Molonglo, ASKAP, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) and the Deep Synoptic Array all contributing [2].”
Fast radio burst source properties and curvature radiation model (2017, background): “…of the emitting region in the transverse direction — for a source with sub-relativistic speed — is A < π(cδt)2, so the brightness 1 A list of all reported FRBs and their properties can be found at http://www.astronomy.swin.edu.au/pulsar/frbcat/ (Petroff et al. 2016). c© 0000 RAS ar X iv :1 70 3.”
The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts – II. New FRB discoveries and their follow-up. (2017, background): “First seen in 2007 in archival Parkes radio telescope data (Lorimer et al. 2007), FRBs have dispersion measures (DMs) which can exceed the Milky Way contribution by more than an order of magnitude (Petroff et al. 2016) and typically have durations of a few milliseconds.”
Millisecond Magnetar Birth Connects FRB 121102 to Superluminous Supernovae and Long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (2017, background): “…less and dispersion measures DM ∼ 500 − 1200 pc cm−3 much larger than expected for propagation through the Galaxy or its halo (Lorimer et al. 2007; Keane et al. 2012; Thornton et al. 2013; Spitler et al. 2014; Ravi et al. 2015; Petroff et al. 2016; Champion et al. 2016; see Katz 2016 for a review).”
The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project: System Overview (2018, methodology): “We maintain a database of known sources that initially consists of all known pulsars, RRATs and FRBs and their relevant parameters recorded in the ATNF pulsar catalog9 (Manchester et al. 2005), the ‘RRATalog’10 and the FRB catalog11 (Petroff et al. 2016).”
THE REPEATING FAST RADIO BURST FRB 121102: MULTI-WAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS AND ADDITIONAL BURSTS (2016, background): “Petroff et al. (2016), hereafter FRBCAT, present an online catalog of the known FRBs and their properties16.”
A NEW ELECTRON-DENSITY MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF PULSAR AND FRB DISTANCES (2016, background): “6 For a catalog of currently known FRBs, see http://www.astronomy.swin. edu.au/pulsar/frbcat/ and Petroff et al. (2016). largely originates in the more widely distributed “warm ionized medium” (WIM), which can be investigated using wide-field Hα observations (e.g., Haffner et al. 2003).”
Fast Radio Bursts from Magnetars Born in Binary Neutron Star Mergers and Accretion Induced Collapse (2019, background): “…an extragalactic origin (e.g., Lorimer et al. 2007; Keane et al. 2012; Thornton et al. 2013; Spitler et al. 2014; Ravi et al. 2015; Champion et al. 2016; Petroff et al. 2016; Lawrence et al. 2017; Shannon et al. 2018; see Cordes & Chatterjee 2019; Petroff et al. 2019 for recent reviews).”
The Detection of an Extremely Bright Fast Radio Burst in a Phased Array Feed Survey (2017, background): “…Wayth et al. 2011; Caleb et al. 2016; Spitler et al. 2016; Masui et al. 2015; Chatterjee et al. 2017) and an estimated rate of ∼ 3000 events sky−1 day−1 above a fluence of 2 Jy ms (Keane & Petroff 2015; Champion et al. 2016), fewer than thirty such bursts are still known1 (Petroff et al. 2016).”
The Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102 as Seen on Milliarcsecond Angular Scales (2017, background): “Thus far, 18 FRBs have been discovered using single dish observations (e.g., Lorimer et al. 2007; Thornton et al. 2013; Petroff et al. 2016).”
A Multi-telescope Campaign on FRB 121102: Implications for the FRB Population (2017, background): “If FRB 121102 is representative of all FRBs, then we should expect them to be useful as probes of the intergalactic medium and their 1 See http://www.astronomy.swin.edu.au/pulsar/frbcat (Petroff et al. 2016). host galaxies (Macquart & Johnston 2015).”