CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 Results: Statistical Cross-correlations with Large-scale Structure

Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi; Kendrick M. Smith; Dongzi Li; Kiyoshi W. Masui; Alexander Josephy; Matt Dobbs; Dustin Lang; Mohit Bhardwaj; Chitrang Patel; Kevin Bandura; Sabrina Berger; P. J. Boyle; Charanjot Brar; Daniela Breitman; Tomas Cassanelli; Pragya Chawla; Fengqiu Adam Dong; Emmanuel Fonseca; B. M. Gaensler; Utkarsh Giri; Deborah C. Good; Mark Halpern; Jane Kaczmarek; Victoria M. Kaspi; Calvin Leung; Hsiu Hsien Lin; Juan Mena-Parra; B. W. Meyers; D. Michilli; Moritz Münchmeyer; Cherry Ng; Emily Petroff; Ziggy Pleunis; Mubdi Rahman; Pranav Sanghavi; Paul Scholz; Kaitlyn Shin; Ingrid H. Stairs; Shriharsh P. Tendulkar; Keith Vanderlinde; Andrew Zwaniga

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CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 Results: Statistical Cross-correlations with Large-scale Structure

Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi
, Kendrick M. Smith
, Dongzi Li
, Kiyoshi W. Masui
, Alexander Josephy
, Matt Dobbs
, Dustin Lang
, Mohit Bhardwaj
, Chitrang Patel
, Kevin Bandura
, Sabrina Berger
, P. J. Boyle
, Charanjot Brar
, Daniela Breitman
, Tomas Cassanelli
, Pragya Chawla
, Fengqiu Adam Dong
, Emmanuel Fonseca
, B. M. Gaensler
, Utkarsh Giri

Deborah C. Good, Mark Halpern, Jane Kaczmarek, Victoria M. Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Hsiu Hsien Lin, Juan Mena-Parra, B. W. Meyers, D. Michilli, Moritz Münchmeyer, Cherry Ng, Emily Petroff, Ziggy Pleunis, Mubdi Rahman, Pranav Sanghavi, Paul Scholz, Kaitlyn Shin, Ingrid H. Stairs, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Keith Vanderlinde, Andrew Zwaniga

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The CHIME/FRB Project has recently released its first catalog of fast radio bursts (FRBs), containing 492 unique sources. We present results from angular cross-correlations of CHIME/FRB sources with galaxy catalogs. We find a statistically significant (p-value ∼ 10-4, accounting for look-elsewhere factors) cross-correlation between CHIME FRBs and galaxies in the redshift range 0.3 ≲ z ≲ 0.5, in three photometric galaxy surveys: WISE × SCOS, DESI-BGS, and DESI-LRG. The level of cross-correlation is consistent with an order-one fraction of the CHIME FRBs being in the same dark matter halos as survey galaxies in this redshift range. We find statistical evidence for a population of FRBs with large host dispersion measure (∼400 pc cm-3) and show that this can plausibly arise from gas in large halos (M ∼ 1014 M⊙), for FRBs near the halo center (r ≲ 100 kpc). These results will improve in future CHIME/FRB catalogs, with more FRBs and better angular resolution.

Original language	English
Article number	42
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	922
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1dab
State	Published - Nov 20 2021

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Rafiei-Ravandi, M., Smith, K. M., Li, D., Masui, K. W., Josephy, A., Dobbs, M., Lang, D., Bhardwaj, M., Patel, C., Bandura, K., Berger, S., Boyle, P. J., Brar, C., Breitman, D., Cassanelli, T., Chawla, P., Adam Dong, F., Fonseca, E., Gaensler, B. M., ... Zwaniga, A. (2021). CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 Results: Statistical Cross-correlations with Large-scale Structure. Astrophysical Journal, 922(1), Article 42. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1dab

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Rafiei-Ravandi, M, Smith, KM, Li, D, Masui, KW, Josephy, A, Dobbs, M, Lang, D, Bhardwaj, M, Patel, C, Bandura, K, Berger, S, Boyle, PJ, Brar, C, Breitman, D, Cassanelli, T, Chawla, P, Adam Dong, F, Fonseca, E, Gaensler, BM, Giri, U, Good, DC, Halpern, M, Kaczmarek, J, Kaspi, VM, Leung, C, Lin, HH, Mena-Parra, J, Meyers, BW, Michilli, D, Münchmeyer, M, Ng, C, Petroff, E, Pleunis, Z, Rahman, M, Sanghavi, P, Scholz, P, Shin, K, Stairs, IH, Tendulkar, SP, Vanderlinde, K & Zwaniga, A 2021, 'CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 Results: Statistical Cross-correlations with Large-scale Structure', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 922, no. 1, 42. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1dab

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