http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06582
Recent multi-telescope observations of the repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102 reveal a Gaussian-like spectral profile and associate the event with a dwarf metal-poor galaxy at a cosmological redshift of 0.19. Assuming that this event represents the entire FRB population, we make predictions for the expected number counts of FRBs observable by future radio telescopes between 50 MHz and 3.5 GHz. We vary our model assumptions to bracket the expected rate of FRBs, and find that the expected rate of events exceeds one per second per sky when accounting for faint sources. We show that future low-frequency radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array, could detect more than one FRB per minute over the entire sky originating from the epoch of reionization.
A. Fialkov and A. Loeb
Thu, 22 Jun 17
37/68
Comments: Submitted to ApJL, 6 pages, 2 figures