Non-detection of fast radio bursts from six gamma-ray burst remnants with possible magnetar engines

Men, Yunpeng; Aggarwal, K. K.; Li, Ye; Palaniswamy, Divya; Burke-Spolaor, S.; Lee, K. J.; Luo, Rui; Demorest, Paul; Tendulkar, Shriharsh P.; Agarwal, Devansh; Young, Olivia; Zhang, Bing

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“…It has been hypothesized that extreme cosmic explosions such as long GRBs, superluminous supernovae, and even short GRBs due to NS-NS mergers may give birth to extremely rapidly rotating magnetars 132 . Galactic magnetars likely did not go through these extreme channels, since their birth rate is much higher than the birth rate of those explosions 133 and since the supernova remnants of some Galactic Searches for FRBs in GRB or superluminous supernova remnants have been carried out and so far fruitless 72,73 (but see ref. 74 ).…”

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The physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts

Zhang

2020

Nature

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Fast radio bursts are mysterious millisecond-duration transients prevalent in the radio sky. Rapid accumulation of data in recent years has facilitated an understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms of these events. Knowledge gained from the neighboring fields of gamma-ray bursts and radio pulsars also offered insight. Here I review developments in this fast-moving field.Two generic categories of radiation model invoking either magnetospheres of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes) or relativistic shocks launched from such objects have been much debated. The recent detection of a Galactic fast radio burst in association with a soft gamma-ray repeater suggests that magnetar engines can produce at least some, and probably all, fast radio bursts. Other engines that could produce fast radio bursts are not required, but are also not impossible. On 24 July, 2001, a bright, dispersed radio pulse reached the Parkes 64-m telescope in Australia. The recorded signal remained unnoticed until Duncan Lorimer and his collaborators discovered it (now known as the fast radio burst FRB 010724) several years later and published the results in Science 1. For some time, some astronomers were not convinced that this so-called "Lorimer burst" was a genuine type of astrophysical event, until four more events were reported in 2013 (ref. 2). The field then enjoyed a rapid boost from both observational and theoretical fronts. With the identification of the microwave-oven-origin of some artificial bursts known as "perytons", the astrophysical origin of the bona fide bursts was finally established 3. This was followed by the detection of the first repeating source, known as FRB 121102 (ref. 4) and its localization in a dwarf star forming galaxy at redshift z = 0.19(refs. 5-7), establishing the extragalactic/cosmological origin (in contrast to the Galactic origin 8) of these events. Numerous theoretical models have been proposed to interpret these mysterious events 9. These have been driven by observations and groundbreaking results from numerous radio observatories: Parkes, Arecibo, Green Bank Telescope, the 1

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The physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts

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“…By reversing the strategy, Madison et al (2019) searched for FRBs from the directions of nearby short GRBs testing the possible existence of a young massive NS remnant capable of making FRBs, and found nothing down to the level of the faintest repetitions from FRB 121102. Men et al (2019) carried out a similar analysis for six nearby (both long and short) GRBs with magnetar evidence and excluded a source with a burst energy distribution and rate similar to 121102.…”

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A search for promptγ-ray counterparts to fast radio bursts in the Insight-HXMT data

Guidorzi¹,

Marongiu²,

Martone³

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Context. No robust detection of prompt electromagnetic counterparts to fast radio bursts (FRBs) has yet been obtained, in spite of several multi-wavelength searches having been carried out so far. Specifically, X/γ-rays counterparts are predicted by some models. Aims. We aim to search for prompt γ-ray counterparts in the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) data, taking advantage of the unique combination of the large effective area in the keV–MeV energy range, and of sub-ms time resolution. Methods. We selected 39 FRBs that were promptly visible from the High-Energy (HE) instrument aboard Insight-HXMT. After calculating the expected arrival times at the location of the spacecraft, we searched for a significant excess in both individual and cumulative time profiles over a wide range of time resolutions, from several seconds down to sub-ms scales. Using the dispersion measures in excess of the Galactic terms, we estimated the upper limits on the redshifts. Results. No convincing signal was found, and for each FRB we constrained the γ-ray isotropic-equivalent luminosity and the released energy as a function of emission timescale. For the nearest FRB source, the periodic repeater FRB 180916.J0158+65, we find Lγ, iso < 5.5 × 1047 erg s−1 over 1 s, whereas Lγ, iso < 1049 − 1051 erg s−1 for the bulk of FRBs. The same values scale up by a factor of ∼100 for a ms-long emission. Conclusions. Even on a timescale comparable with that of the radio pulse itself, no keV–MeV emission is observed. A systematic association with either long or short GRBs is ruled out with high confidence, except for sub-luminous events, as is the case for the core-collapse of massive stars (long) or binary neutron star mergers (short) viewed off axis. Only giant flares from extragalactic magnetars at least ten times more energetic than Galactic siblings are ruled out for the nearest FRB.

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“…Similar surveys have been performed recently: Law et al ( 2019) observed 10 SLSN using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) for 8.5 hrs at 3 GHz, where they managed to detected the persistent radio source of PTF10hgi in their radio image searching. Men et al (2019) observed five LGRBs and one short GRB for 20 hrs using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) at 820 MHz and 2 GHz, and the Arecibo Radio Telescope at 1.4 GHz. Madison et al (2019) observed six short GRBs, which originate from the merger of neutron stars and could leave behind a magnetar capable of producing repeating FRBs, for 20 hrs using the GBT at 2 GHz and Arecibo at 1.4 GHz.…”

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Observing superluminous supernovae and long gamma-ray bursts as potential birthplaces of repeating fast radio bursts

Hilmarsson

Spitler

Keane

et al. 2020

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) and long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) have been proposed as progenitors of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). In this scenario, bursts originate from the interaction between a young magnetar and its surrounding supernova remnant (SNR). Such a model could explain the repeating, apparently non-Poissonian nature of FRB121102, which appears to display quiescent and active phases. This bursting behaviour is better explained with a Weibull distribution, which includes parametrization for clustering. We observed 10 SLSNe/LGRBs for 63 h, looking for repeating FRBs with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope, but have not detected any bursts. We scale the burst rate of FRB121102 to an FRB121102-like source inhabiting each of our observed targets, and compare this rate to our upper burst rate limit on a source by source basis. By adopting a fiducial beaming fraction of 0.6, we obtain 99.99 per cent and 83.4 per cent probabilities that at least one, and at least half of our observed sources are beamed towards us, respectively. One of our SLSN targets, PTF10hgi, is coincident with a persistent radio source, making it a possible analogue to FRB121102. We performed further observations on this source using the Effelsberg 100-m and Parkes 64-m radio telescopes. Assuming that PTF10hgi contains an FRB121102-like source, the probabilities of not detecting any bursts from a Weibull distribution during our observations are 14 per cent and 16 per cent for Effelsberg and Parkes, respectively. We conclude by showing that a survey of many short observations increases burst detection probability for a source with Weibull distributed bursting activity.

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Non-detection of fast radio bursts from six gamma-ray burst remnants with possible magnetar engines

Cited by 22 publications

References 67 publications

The physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts

The physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts

A search for promptγ-ray counterparts to fast radio bursts in the Insight-HXMT data

Observing superluminous supernovae and long gamma-ray bursts as potential birthplaces of repeating fast radio bursts

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