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Pushchino multibeam pulsar search — V. The bright FRB 20190203 detected at 111 MHz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2025

S. A. Tyul’bashev*
Affiliation:
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Astro Space Center, Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory, Radiotelescopnaya 1, Moscow region, Pushchino, 142290, Russia
V. A. Samodurov
Affiliation:
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Astro Space Center, Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory, Radiotelescopnaya 1, Moscow region, Pushchino, 142290, Russia Graduate School of Business, HSE University
A. S. Pozanenko
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyusnaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia National Research University Higher School of Economics, Pokrovskii bulvar 11, Moscow, 109028, Russia Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskiy pereulok 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Russia
E. A. Brylyakova
Affiliation:
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Astro Space Center, Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory, Radiotelescopnaya 1, Moscow region, Pushchino, 142290, Russia
S. A. Grebenev
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyusnaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia
I. V. Chelovekov
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyusnaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia
P. Yu. Minaev
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyusnaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia
E. A. Isaev
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Branch of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Vitkevich 1a, Moscow region, Pushchino, 142290, Russia
M. V. Barkov
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyatnitskaya 48, Moscow, 119017, Russia
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Author for correspondence: S. A. Tyul’bashev, Email: serg@prao.ru.

Abstract

Since August 2014, a monitoring survey at a frequency of 111 MHz has been conducted on the Large Phased Array (LPA) radio telescope of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI). We report the discovery of a bright pulse having a dispersion measure (DM) equal to 134.4 ± 2 pc cm–3, a peak flux density (Sp) equal to 20 ± 4 Jy and a half-width (We) equal to 211 ± 6 ms. The excessive DM of the pulse, after taking into account the MilkyWay contribution, is 114 pc cm–3 that indicates its extragalactic origin. Such value of DM corresponds to the luminosity distance 713 Mpc. The above parameters make the pulse to be a reliable candidate to the fast radio burst (FRB) event, and then it is the second FRB detected at such a large λ ∼ 2.7 m wavelength and the first one among non-repeating FRBs. The normalized luminosity Lν of the event, which we have designated as FRB 20190203, estimated under assumption that the whole excessive DM is determined by the intergalactic environment toward the host galaxy, is equal to ≃ 1034 erg s–1Hz–1. In addition to the study of radio data we analyzed data from the quasi-simultaneous observations of the sky in the high energy (≥ 80 keV) band by the omnidirectional detector SPI/ACS aboard the INTEGRAL orbital observatory (in order to look for a possible gamma-ray counterpart of FRB 20190203). We did not detect any transient events exceeding the background at a statistically significant level. In the INTEGRAL archive, the FRB 20190203 localization region has been observed many times with with a total exposure of ∼ 73.2 days. We have analyzed the data but were unable to find any reliable short gamma-ray bursts from the FRB 20190203 position. Finally we note that the observed properties of FRB 20190203 can be reproduced well in the framework of a maser synchrotron model operating in the far reverse shock (at a distance of ∼ 1015 cm) of a magnetar. However, triggering the burst requires a high conversion efficiency (at the level of 1%) of the shock wave energy into the radio emission.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Astronomical Society of Australia

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