scholarly journals Hunting the gamma-ray emission from Fast Radio Burst with Fermi-LAT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Principe ◽  
Nicola Omodei ◽  
Francesco Longo ◽  
Leonardo Di Venere ◽  
Niccolò Di Lalla
2017 ◽  
Vol 846 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Scholz ◽  
S. Bogdanov ◽  
J. W. T. Hessels ◽  
R. S. Lynch ◽  
L. G. Spitler ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Lipunov ◽  
V. Kornilov ◽  
E. Gorbovskoy ◽  
Kirill Zhirkov ◽  
Aristarkh Chasovnikov ◽  
...  

Abstract With the discovery of gamma ray bursts1,2, it became clear that our Universe flickers with superfast catastrophic events, sometimes lasting for a thousandths of a second. These ultra-fast transients - the peculiar one-day butterflies of the Universe - shine so brightly that they are noticed even on the other end of the Universe and, moreover, by very small telescopes. But in the radio range, the sky remained silent until the beginning of the 21st century. Only in 2007, radio astronomers analyzing archival observations of the Parkes Radio Telescope first encountered fast transients 3,4 . About a hundred such sources have already been discovered. We report the first optical observation of the closest radio burster FRB 180916.J0158+655-8 synchronously with a radio burst. In total, we obtained about 155,093 images at MASTER Global Robotic Net9*. In the course of our observations, we found a new method for detecting objects deep below the noise level. In addition, using the new method, we found the excess of photons in the FRB direction at a level of 23 m associated with the emission of the host galaxy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 597 ◽  
pp. A115 ◽  
Author(s):  
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H. Abdalla ◽  
A. Abramowski ◽  
F. Aharonian ◽  
F. Ait Benkhali ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 788 (2) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
He Gao ◽  
Zhuo Li ◽  
Bing Zhang

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.K. Li ◽  
Lin Lin ◽  
S.L. Xiong ◽  
Mingyu Ge ◽  
X.B. Li ◽  
...  

Abstract Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short pulses observed in radio band from cosmological distances, some of which emit repeating bursts. The physical origins of these mysterious events have been subject to wide speculations and heated debates. One class of models invoke soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), or magnetars, as the sources of FRBs. Magnetars are rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic field and can sporadically emit bursts from X-ray (keV) to soft gamma-ray (sub-MeV) with duration from 10􀀀2 s to 102 s. However, even though some bright radio bursts have been observed from some magnetars, no FRB-like events had been detected to be associated with any magnetar burst, including one giant flare, and no radio burst has been associated with any X-ray event from any magnetar. Therefore, there is still no observational evidence for magnetar-FRB association up to today. Recently, a pair of FRB-like bursts (FRB~200428 hereafter) separated by 30 milliseconds (ms) were detected from the general direction of the Galactic magnetar SGR~J1935+2154. Here we report the detection of a non-thermal X-ray burst in the 1--250\,keV energy band with the Insight-HXMT satellite, which we identify as emitted from SGR~J1935+2154. The burst showed two hard peaks with a separation of ms, consistent with the separation between the two bursts in FRB~200428. The delay time between the double radio and X-ray peaks is 8:57s, fully consistent with the dispersion delay of FRB~200428. We thus identify the non-thermal X-ray burst is associated with FRB~200428 whose high energy counterpart is the two hard peaks in X-ray. Our results suggest that the non-thermal X-ray burst and FRB~200428 share the same physical origin in an explosive event from SGR~J1935+2154.


2020 ◽  
Vol 497 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mieke Bouwhuis ◽  
Keith W Bannister ◽  
Jean-Pierre Macquart ◽  
R M Shannon ◽  
David L Kaplan ◽  
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ABSTRACT We report the results of the rapid follow-up observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi satellite to search for associated fast radio bursts. The observations were conducted with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder at frequencies from 1.2 to 1.4 GHz. A set of 20 bursts, of which four were short GRBs, were followed up with a typical latency of about 1 min, for a duration of up to 11 h after the burst. The data were searched using 4096 dispersion measure trials up to a maximum dispersion measure of 3763 pc cm−3, and for pulse widths w over a range of duration from 1.256 to 40.48 ms. No associated pulsed radio emission was observed above $26 \, {\rm Jy\, ms}\, (w/1\, {\rm ms})^{-1/2}$ for any of the 20 GRBs.


Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 587 (7832) ◽  
pp. 43-44
Author(s):  
Amanda Weltman ◽  
Anthony Walters
Keyword(s):  

Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 582 (7812) ◽  
pp. 322-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Witze

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