TY - JOUR
T1 - The Host galaxies and progenitors of fast radio bursts localized with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
AU - Bhandari, Shivani
AU - Sadler, Elaine M.
AU - Prochaska, J. Xavier
AU - Simha, Sunil
AU - Ryder, Stuart D.
AU - Marnoch, Lachlan
AU - Bannister, Keith W.
AU - MacQuart, Jean Pierre
AU - Flynn, Chris
AU - Shannon, Ryan M.
AU - Tejos, Nicolas
AU - Corro-Guerra, Felipe
AU - Day, Cherie K.
AU - Deller, Adam T.
AU - Ekers, Ron
AU - Lopez, Sebastian
AU - Mahony, Elizabeth K.
AU - Nun˜ez, Consuelo
AU - Phillips, Chris
N1 - Copyright 2020 the American Astronomical Society. First published in Astrophysical journal letters, volume 895, issue 2, article L37. The original publication is available at https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab672e, published by IOP Publishing. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has started to localize fast radio bursts (FRBs) to arcsecond accuracy from the detection of a single pulse, allowing their host galaxies to be reliably identified. We discuss the global properties of the host galaxies of the first four FRBs localized by ASKAP, which lie in the redshift range 0.11 < z < 0.48. All four are massive galaxies (log(M∗/M⊙) ∼ 9.4-10.4) with modest star formation rates of up to 2 M⊙ yr-1 - very different to the host galaxy of the first repeating FRB 121102, which is a dwarf galaxy with a high specific star formation rate. The FRBs localized by ASKAP typically lie in the outskirts of their host galaxies, which appears to rule out FRB progenitor models that invoke active galactic nuclei or free-floating cosmic strings. The stellar population seen in these host galaxies also disfavors models in which all FRBs arise from young magnetars produced by superluminous supernovae, as proposed for the progenitor of FRB 121102. A range of other progenitor models (including compact-object mergers and magnetars arising from normal core-collapse supernovae) remain plausible.
AB - The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope has started to localize fast radio bursts (FRBs) to arcsecond accuracy from the detection of a single pulse, allowing their host galaxies to be reliably identified. We discuss the global properties of the host galaxies of the first four FRBs localized by ASKAP, which lie in the redshift range 0.11 < z < 0.48. All four are massive galaxies (log(M∗/M⊙) ∼ 9.4-10.4) with modest star formation rates of up to 2 M⊙ yr-1 - very different to the host galaxy of the first repeating FRB 121102, which is a dwarf galaxy with a high specific star formation rate. The FRBs localized by ASKAP typically lie in the outskirts of their host galaxies, which appears to rule out FRB progenitor models that invoke active galactic nuclei or free-floating cosmic strings. The stellar population seen in these host galaxies also disfavors models in which all FRBs arise from young magnetars produced by superluminous supernovae, as proposed for the progenitor of FRB 121102. A range of other progenitor models (including compact-object mergers and magnetars arising from normal core-collapse supernovae) remain plausible.
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U2 - 10.3847/2041-8213/ab672e
DO - 10.3847/2041-8213/ab672e
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086316450
SN - 2041-8205
VL - 895
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Astrophysical Journal Letters
JF - Astrophysical Journal Letters
IS - 2
M1 - L37
ER -