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The Detection of an Extremely Bright Fast Radio Burst in a Phased Array Feed Survey

Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 841, No. 1, Article L12, Year 2017

We report the detection of an ultra-bright fast radio burst (FRB) from a modest, 3.4-day pilot survey with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. The survey was conducted in a wide-field fly's-eye configuration using the phased-array-feed technology deployed on the array to instantaneously observe an effective area of 160 deg2, and achieve an exposure totaling 13200 deg2 hr . We constrain the position of FRB 170107 to a region in size (90% containment) and its fluence to be 58 ±6 Jy ms. The spectrum of the burst shows a sharp cutoff above 1400 MHz, which could be due to either scintillation or an intrinsic feature of the burst. This confirms the existence of an ultra-bright (∼ Jy ms) population of FRBs.

Bannister, Keith W.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Shannon, R. M.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
2. Australia, Perth Curtin University
MacQuart, Jean Pierre R.
1. Australia, Perth Curtin University
2. Australia, Sydney Arc Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
Flynn, Chris M.L.
1. Australia, Sydney Arc Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
2. Australia, Hawthorn Swinburne University of Technology
Edwards, Philip G.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
O'Neill, M.
1. Australia, Sydney Arc Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
2. Australia, Hawthorn Swinburne University of Technology
Osłowski, Stefan
1. Australia, Hawthorn Swinburne University of Technology
Bailes, Matthew
1. Australia, Hawthorn Swinburne University of Technology
Zackay, B.
1. Israel, Rehovot Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
Clarke, N.
1. Australia, Perth Curtin University
D'Addario, Larry R.
1. United States, Pasadena California Institute of Technology
Dodson, Richard G.
1. Australia, Perth The University of Western Australia
Hall, Peter J.
1. Australia, Perth Curtin University
Jameson, Andrew
1. Australia, Hawthorn Swinburne University of Technology
Jones, Dayton L.
1. United States, Boulder Space Science Institute
Navarro, Robert
1. United States, Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Trinh, J. T.
1. United States, Washington, D.c. United States Navy
Allison, James R.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Anderson, Craig S.
1. Australia, Perth Csiro Astronomy and Space Science
Bell, Martin E.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Chippendale, Aaron P.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Collier, Jordan D.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
2. Australia, Penrith Western Sydney University
Heald, George H.
1. Australia, Perth Csiro Astronomy and Space Science
Heywood, Ian
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
2. South Africa, Grahamstown Rhodes University
Hotan, Aidan W.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Lee-Waddell, Karen
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Madrid, Juan P.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Marvil, Joshua R.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
McConnell, David M.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Popping, Attila
1. Australia, Sydney Arc Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics
2. Australia, Perth The University of Western Australia
Voronkov, Maxim A.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Whiting, Matthew T.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Allen, Graham R.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Bock, Douglas C.J.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Brodrick, David P.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Cooray, Francis R.
1. Unknown Affiliation
DeBoer, David R.
1. United States, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley
Diamond, Phillip J.
1. United Kingdom, Macclesfield Ska Organisation, uk
Ekers, Ronald D.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Gough, Russell G.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Hampson, Grant A.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Harvey-Smith, Lisa
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Hay, Stuartg G.
1. Australia, Sydney Csiro Data61
Hayman, Douglas Brian
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Jackson, Carole A.
1. Australia, Perth Curtin University
Johnston, Simon
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Koribalski, Baerbel S.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
McClure-Griffiths, Naomi M.
1. Australia, Canberra The Australian National University
Mirtschin, Peter
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Ng, Alan K.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Norris, Ray P.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
2. Australia, Penrith Western Sydney University
Pearce, Sarah E.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Phillips, Christopher J.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Roxby, Daniel N.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Troup, Euan R.
1. Australia, Sydney Australia Telescope National Facility
Westmeier, Tobias
1. Australia, Perth The University of Western Australia

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