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On the paucity of fast radio bursts at low Galactic latitudes

Author(s) -

JeanPierre Macquart,

S. Johnston

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

monthly notices of the royal astronomical society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058

H-Index - 383

eISSN - 1365-8711

pISSN - 0035-8711

DOI - 10.1093/mnras/stv1184

Subject(s) - physics , astrophysics , galactic plane , flux (metallurgy) , source counts , astronomy , population , latitude , scintillation , interstellar medium , power law , galaxy , statistics , materials science , demography , mathematics , redshift , sociology , detector , optics , metallurgy

We examine the effect of Galactic diffractive interstellar scintillation as a means of explaining the reported deficit of fast radio burst (FRB) detections at low Galactic latitude. We model the unknown underlying FRB flux density distribution as a power law with a rate scaling as $S_\nu ^{-5/2+\delta }$ and account for the fact that the FRBs are detected at unknown positions within the telescope ...

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