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    Fast radio burst event rate counts - I. Interpreting the observations

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    Authors
    Macquart, Jean-Pierre
    Ekers, Ronald
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Macquart, J. and Ekers, R. 2018. Fast radio burst event rate counts - I. Interpreting the observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474 (2): pp. 1900-1908.
    Source Title
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
    DOI
    10.1093/mnras/stx2825
    ISSN
    0035-8711
    School
    Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (Physics)
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    This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67037
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The fluence distribution of the fast radio burst (FRB) population (the 'source count' distribution, N ( > F) αF α ), is a crucial diagnostic of its distance distribution, and hence the progenitor evolutionary history. We critically reanalyse current estimates of the FRB source count distribution. We demonstrate that the Lorimer burst (FRB 010724) is subject to discovery bias, and should be excluded from all statistical studies of the population. We re-examine the evidence for flat, α > -1, source count estimates based on the ratio of single-beam to multiple-beam detections with the Parkes multibeam receiver, and show that current data imply only a very weak constraint of α ≲ -1.3. A maximum-likelihood analysis applied to the portion of the Parkes FRB population detected above the observational completeness fluence of 2 Jy ms yields α = -2.6 -1.3 +0.7 . Uncertainties in the location of each FRB within the Parkes beam render estimates of the Parkes event rate uncertain in both normalizing survey area and the estimated post-beam-corrected completeness fluence; this uncertainty needs to be accounted for when comparing the event rate against event rates measured at other telescopes.

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