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Bannister KW, Deller AT, Phillips C, Macquart JP, Prochaska JX, Tejos N, Ryder SD, Sadler EM, Shannon RM, Simha S, Day CK, McQuinn M, North-Hickey FO, Bhandari S, Arcus WR, Bennert VN, Burchett J, Bouwhuis M, Dodson R, Ekers RD, Farah W, Flynn C, James CW, Kerr M, Lenc E, Mahony EK, O'Meara J, Osłowski S, Qiu H, Treu T, U V, Bateman TJ, Bock DCJ, Bolton RJ, Brown A, Bunton JD, Chippendale AP, Cooray FR, Cornwell T, Gupta N, Hayman DB, Kesteven M, Koribalski BS, MacLeod A, McClure-Griffiths NM, Neuhold S, Norris RP, Pilawa MA, Qiao RY, Reynolds J, Roxby DN, Shimwell TW, Voronkov MA, Wilson CD. A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance. Science 2019; 365:565-570. [PMID: 31249136 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw5903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Abstract
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some are known to repeat, but most are single bursts. Nonrepeating FRB observations have had insufficient positional accuracy to localize them to an individual host galaxy. We report the interferometric localization of the single-pulse FRB 180924 to a position 4 kiloparsecs from the center of a luminous galaxy at redshift 0.3214. The burst has not been observed to repeat. The properties of the burst and its host are markedly different from those of the only other accurately localized FRB source. The integrated electron column density along the line of sight closely matches models of the intergalactic medium, indicating that some FRBs are clean probes of the baryonic component of the cosmic web.
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Affiliation(s)
- K W Bannister
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia.
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
| | - C Phillips
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - J-P Macquart
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
| | - J X Prochaska
- University of California Observatories-Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.,Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8583, Japan
| | - N Tejos
- Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Casilla 4059, Valparaíso, Chile
| | - S D Ryder
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
| | - E M Sadler
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia.,Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
| | - R M Shannon
- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia.
| | - S Simha
- University of California Observatories-Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
| | - C K Day
- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
| | - M McQuinn
- Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
| | - F O North-Hickey
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
| | - S Bhandari
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - W R Arcus
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
| | - V N Bennert
- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA
| | - J Burchett
- Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Casilla 4059, Valparaíso, Chile
| | - M Bouwhuis
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia.,Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - R Dodson
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
| | - R D Ekers
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia.,International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
| | - W Farah
- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
| | - C Flynn
- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
| | - C W James
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
| | - M Kerr
- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
| | - E Lenc
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - E K Mahony
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - J O'Meara
- W. M. Keck Observatory, Waimea, HI 96743, USA
| | - S Osłowski
- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
| | - H Qiu
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia.,Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
| | - D C-J Bock
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
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- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
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- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
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- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - A P Chippendale
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - F R Cooray
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
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- Tim Cornwell Consulting, 17 Elgan Crescent, Sandbach CW11 1LD, UK
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- Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
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- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
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- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - B S Koribalski
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - A MacLeod
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - N M McClure-Griffiths
- Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2611, Australia
| | - S Neuhold
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - R P Norris
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia.,Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South, NSW 2751, Australia
| | - M A Pilawa
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - R-Y Qiao
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - J Reynolds
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - D N Roxby
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - T W Shimwell
- ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, Netherlands
| | - M A Voronkov
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
| | - C D Wilson
- Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
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