The Lowest-frequency Fast Radio Bursts: Sardinia Radio Telescope Detection of the Periodic FRB 180916 at 328 MHz
We report on the lowest-frequency detection to date of three bursts from FRB 180916.J0158+65, observed at 328 MHz with the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). The SRT observed the periodic repeater FRB 180916.J0158+65 for five days from Feb. 20, 2020 to Feb. 24, 2020 during a time interval of active radio bursting, and detected the three bursts during the first hour of observations; no more bursts were detected during the remaining ∼ 30 hours. Simultaneous SRT observations at 1548 MHz did not detect any bursts. Burst fluences are in the range 13 to 37 Jy ms. No relevant scattering is observed for these bursts. We also present the results of the multi-wavelength campaign we performed on FRB 180916.J0158+65, during the ∼ 5 days of the active window. Simultaneously with the SRT observations, observations with different time spans were performed with the Northern Cross at 408 MHz, with XMM-Newton, NICER, INTEGRAL, AGILE and with the TNG and two optical telescopes in Asiago, which are equipped with fast photometers.
Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 896, Issue 2, id.L40, 11 pp. (2020)