The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2024)
Host Galaxies for Four Nearby CHIME/FRB Sources and the Local Universe FRB Host Galaxy Population
- Mohit Bhardwaj,
- Daniele Michilli,
- Aida Yu. Kirichenko,
- Obinna Modilim,
- Kaitlyn Shin,
- Victoria M. Kaspi,
- Bridget C. Andersen,
- Tomas Cassanelli,
- Charanjot Brar,
- Shami Chatterjee,
- Amanda M. Cook,
- Fengqiu Adam Dong,
- Emmanuel Fonseca,
- B. M. Gaensler,
- Adaeze L. Ibik,
- J. F. Kaczmarek,
- Adam E. Lanman,
- Calvin Leung,
- K. W. Masui,
- Ayush Pandhi,
- Aaron B. Pearlman,
- Emily Petroff,
- Ziggy Pleunis,
- J. Xavier Prochaska,
- Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi,
- Ketan R. Sand,
- Paul Scholz,
- Kendrick M. Smith
Affiliations
- Mohit Bhardwaj
- ORCiD
- McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University , Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
- Daniele Michilli
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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
- Aida Yu. Kirichenko
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- Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , Apdo. Postal 877, Ensenada, Baja California 22800, México
- Obinna Modilim
- ORCiD
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, 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
- Victoria M. Kaspi
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- Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University , Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
- Bridget C. Andersen
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- Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University , Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
- Tomas Cassanelli
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile , Av. Tupper 2007, Santiago 8370451, Chile
- Charanjot Brar
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- Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University , Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
- Shami Chatterjee
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- Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University , Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- Amanda M. 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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- Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
- Emmanuel Fonseca
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- Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, West Virginia University , Chestnut Ridge Research Building, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University , P.O. Box 6315, Morgantown, WV 26506, 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
- Adaeze L. Ibik
- ORCiD
- 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
- J. F. Kaczmarek
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- CSIRO Space & Astronomy, Parkes Observatory, P.O. Box 276, Parkes NSW 2870, Australia
- Adam E. Lanman
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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
- Calvin Leung
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Einstein Fellow
- K. W. Masui
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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
- Ayush Pandhi
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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
- Aaron B. Pearlman
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- Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University , Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada; Banting Fellow; McGill Space Institute Fellow; Fonds de Recherche du Quebec—Nature et Technologies (FRQNT) Postdoctoral Fellow
- Emily Petroff
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
- Ziggy Pleunis
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
- J. Xavier Prochaska
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, 277-8583, Japan; Division of Science, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
- Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi
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- Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University , Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
- Ketan R. Sand
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- Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University , Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
- Paul Scholz
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada; Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University , 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON MJ3 1P3, Canada
- Kendrick M. Smith
- ORCiD
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad64d1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 971,
no. 2
p. L51
Abstract
We present the host galaxies of four apparently nonrepeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), FRB 20181223C, FRB 20190418A, FRB 20191220A, and FRB 20190425A, reported in the first Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME/FRB) catalog. Our selection of these FRBs is based on a planned hypothesis testing framework where we search all CHIME/FRB Catalog-1 events that have low extragalactic dispersion measure ( 10°) and saved baseband data. We associate the selected FRBs with galaxies with moderate to high star formation rates located at redshifts between 0.027 and 0.071. We also search for possible multimessenger counterparts, including persistent compact radio and gravitational-wave sources, and find none. Utilizing the four FRB hosts from this study, along with the hosts of 14 published local Universe FRBs ( z < 0.1) with robust host association, we conduct an FRB host demographics analysis. We find all 18 local Universe FRB hosts in our sample to be spirals (or late-type galaxies), including the host of FRB 20220509G, which was previously reported to be elliptical. Using this observation, we scrutinize proposed FRB source formation channels and argue that core-collapse supernovae are likely the dominant channel to form FRB sources. Moreover, we infer no significant difference in the host properties of repeating and apparently nonrepeating FRBs in our local Universe FRB host sample. Finally, we find the burst rates of these four apparently nonrepeating FRBs to be consistent with those of the sample of localized repeating FRBs observed by CHIME/FRB. Therefore, we encourage further monitoring of these FRBs with more sensitive radio telescopes.
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