Fast radio bursts with AstroSat/CZTI

DOI

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-lived (~ms), energetic transients (having a peak flux density of ~Jy) with no known prompt emission in other energy bands. We present results of a search for prompt X-ray emissions from 41 FRBs using the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) on AstroSat, which continuously monitors ~70% of the sky. Our searches on various timescales in the 20-200keV range, did not yield any counterparts in this hard X-ray band. We calculate upper limits on hard X-ray flux, in the same energy range and convert them to upper bounds for {eta}: the ratio of X-ray to radio fluence of FRBs. We find {eta}<=10^8-10^ for hard X-ray emission. Our results will help constrain the theoretical models of FRBs as the models become more quantitative and nearer, brighter FRBs are discovered.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/888/40/table2 (Observed parameters of radio bursts)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18880040
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/888/40
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/888/40
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/888/40
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/888/40
Provenance
Creator Anumarlapudi A.; Bhalerao V.; Tendulkar S.P.; Balasubramanian A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2021
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics