Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog

Ziggy Pleunis; Deborah C. Good; Victoria M. Kaspi; Ryan McKinven; Scott M. Ransom; Paul Scholz; Kevin Bandura; Mohit Bhardwaj; P. J. Boyle; Charanjot Brar; Tomas Cassanelli; Pragya Chawla; Fengqiu Dong; Emmanuel Fonseca; B. M. Gaensler; Alexander Josephy; Jane F. Kaczmarek; Calvin Leung; Hsiu Hsien Lin; Kiyoshi W. Masui; Juan Mena-Parra; Daniele Michilli; Cherry Ng; Chitrang Patel; Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi; Mubdi Rahman; Pranav Sanghavi; Kaitlyn Shin; Kendrick M. Smith; Ingrid H. Stairs; Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac33ac

Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog

Ziggy Pleunis
, Deborah C. Good
, Victoria M. Kaspi
, Ryan McKinven
, Scott M. Ransom
, Paul Scholz
, Kevin Bandura
, Mohit Bhardwaj
, P. J. Boyle
, Charanjot Brar
, Tomas Cassanelli
, Pragya Chawla
, Fengqiu Dong
, Emmanuel Fonseca
, B. M. Gaensler
, Alexander Josephy
, Jane F. Kaczmarek
, Calvin Leung
, Hsiu Hsien Lin
, Kiyoshi W. Masui

Juan Mena-Parra, Daniele Michilli, Cherry Ng, Chitrang Patel, Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi, Mubdi Rahman, Pranav Sanghavi, Kaitlyn Shin, Kendrick M. Smith, Ingrid H. Stairs, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

Physics and Astronomy

McGill University
University of Toronto
National Science Foundation
West Virginia University
National Research Council of Canada
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Waterloo
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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Abstract

We present a synthesis of fast radio burst (FRB) morphology (the change in flux as a function of time and frequency) as detected in the 400-800 MHz octave by the FRB project on the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME/FRB), using events from the first CHIME/FRB catalog. The catalog consists of 62 bursts from 18 repeating sources, plus 474 one-off FRBs, detected between 2018 July 25 and 2019 July 2. We identify four observed archetypes of burst morphology ("simple broadband,""simple narrowband,""temporally complex,"and "downward drifting") and describe relevant instrumental biases that are essential for interpreting the observed morphologies. Using the catalog properties of the FRBs, we confirm that bursts from repeating sources, on average, have larger widths, and we show, for the first time, that bursts from repeating sources, on average, are narrower in bandwidth. This difference could be due to beaming or propagation effects, or it could be intrinsic to the populations. We discuss potential implications of these morphological differences for using FRBs as astrophysical tools.

Original language	English
Article number	1
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	923
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac33ac
State	Published - Dec 10 2021

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Pleunis, Z., Good, D. C., Kaspi, V. M., McKinven, R., Ransom, S. M., Scholz, P., Bandura, K., Bhardwaj, M., Boyle, P. J., Brar, C., Cassanelli, T., Chawla, P., Dong, F., Fonseca, E., Gaensler, B. M., Josephy, A., Kaczmarek, J. F., Leung, C., Lin, H. H., ... Tendulkar, S. P. (2021). Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog. Astrophysical Journal, 923(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac33ac

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