The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2023)
Limits on Fast Radio Burst–like Counterparts to Gamma-Ray Bursts Using CHIME/FRB
- Alice P. Curtin,
- Shriharsh P. Tendulkar,
- Alexander Josephy,
- Pragya Chawla,
- Bridget Andersen,
- Victoria M. Kaspi,
- Mohit Bhardwaj,
- Tomas Cassanelli,
- Amanda Cook,
- Fengqiu Adam Dong,
- Emmanuel Fonseca,
- B. M. Gaensler,
- Jane F. Kaczmarek,
- Adam E. Lanmnan,
- Calvin Leung,
- Aaron B. Pearlman,
- Emily Petroff,
- Ziggy Pleunis,
- Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi,
- Scott M. Ransom,
- Kaitlyn Shin,
- Paul Scholz,
- Kendrick Smith,
- Ingrid Stairs
Affiliations
- Alice P. Curtin
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
- Shriharsh P. Tendulkar
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Mumbai 400005, India; National Centre for Radio Astrophysics , Post Bag 3, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
- Alexander Josephy
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
- Pragya Chawla
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- Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Bridget Andersen
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
- Victoria M. Kaspi
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
- Mohit Bhardwaj
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
- Tomas Cassanelli
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile , Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago 8370451, Chile
- Amanda Cook
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada; David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada
- Fengqiu Adam Dong
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia , 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1 Canada
- Emmanuel Fonseca
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University , P.O. Box 6315, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, West Virginia University , Chestnut Ridge Research Building, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
- B. M. Gaensler
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada; David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada
- Jane F. Kaczmarek
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- Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg Research Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics , National Research Council Canada, P.O. Box 248, Penticton, BC, V2A 6J9, Canada
- Adam E. Lanmnan
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
- Calvin Leung
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- MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Aaron B. Pearlman
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
- Emily Petroff
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada; Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Ziggy Pleunis
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada
- Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi
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- Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada
- Scott M. Ransom
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Kaitlyn Shin
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- MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Paul Scholz
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H4, Canada
- Kendrick Smith
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics , 31 Caroline Street N, Waterloo, ON, N25 2YL, Canada
- Ingrid Stairs
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia , 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1 Canada
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ace52f
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 954,
no. 2
p. 154
Abstract
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a class of highly energetic, mostly extragalactic radio transients lasting for ∼milliseconds. While over 600 FRBs have been published so far, their origins are presently unclear, with some theories for extragalactic FRBs predicting accompanying high-energy emission. In this work, we use the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project to explore whether any FRB-like radio emission coincides in space and time with 81 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected between 2018 July 17 and 2019 July 8 by Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM. We do not find any statistically significant coincident pairs within 3 σ of each other’s spatial localization regions and within a time difference of up to one week. In addition to searching for spatial matches between known FRBs and known GRBs, we use CHIME/FRB to constrain FRB-like (∼1–10 ms) radio emission before, at the time of, or after the reported high-energy emission at the position of 39 GRBs. For short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), we constrain the radio flux in the 400–800 MHz band to be under a few kJy for ∼5.5–12.5 hr post-high-energy burst. We use these limits to constrain models that predict FRB-like prompt radio emission after SGRBs. For long gamma-ray bursts, we constrain the radio flux to be under a few kJy from ∼6 hr pre-high-energy burst to ∼12 hr post-high-energy burst.
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