J/ApJ/961/45 Associations between short GRBs & FRBs (Lu+, 2024)
Searching for associations between short gamma-ray bursts and fast radio bursts.
Lu M.-X., Li L., Wang X.-G., Deng C.-M., Liang Y.-F., Lin D.-B.,
Liang E.-W.
<Astrophys. J., 961, 45 (2024)>
=2024ApJ...961...45L 2024ApJ...961...45L
ADC_Keywords: Radio sources; Transient; GRB
Keywords: Radio transient sources ; Gamma-ray bursts ; Magnetars
Abstract:
The physical origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still unclear.
However, young magnetars associated with short-duration gamma-ray
bursts (SGRBs) have been thought to be possible central engines for
some FRBs. In this paper, we perform a systematic search for SGRBs
that are associated with FRBs in a sample including 623 FRBs
(601 one-off bursts and 22 repeaters) and 168 SGRBs with precise
localizations. We find that FRB 190309A is spatially associated with
GRB 060502B, with a chance probability of 0.05 when temporal and
redshift information is taken into account. Considering the high
chance probability (the statistical significance is <3σ), we
examine other observational properties such as the host galaxy, the
dispersion measure, and the energy budget of the central engine to
check the possibility of their association. Although the available
observational information is insufficient to determine whether they
are physically associated, it does not rule out such a possibility. As
the only pair of FRB and GRB that are spatially associated, it remains
an interesting case worthy of further attention.
Description:
For the short-duration gamma-ray burst (SGRB) sample, we consider the
GRB catalog (http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~jcg/grbgen.html) presented by
J. Greiner (JG catalog), which compiles GRBs detected by various
detectors, e.g., Fermi, Swift, HETE-2, BeppoSAX, BATSE, AGILE, etc.
The JG catalog contains thousands of objects and is updated almost
every day. Until 2022 September, there are more than 1000 GRBs with
afterglow detections recorded in the JG catalog.
There are 111 SGRBs with afterglow detections in the JG catalog (we
have also checked the Swift/XRT website --
https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/grb_table.html -- and confirmed
that there are no other SGRBs with afterglow detections by Swift/XRT).
In addition, some GRBs with T90 larger than 2s are also classified as
SGRBs because there is evidence that they are of merger origin and
include 19 SGRBs. In total, there are 130 SGRBs with afterglow
detections in our sample. In addition, considering the excellent
localization capability of Swift/BAT, we also use the SGRBs detected
by Swift/BAT even without an afterglow detection (38 SGRBs).
Recently, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)
released a large sample of FRBs (The CHIME/FRB Coll. 2021, J/ApJS/257/59).
File Summary:
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 61 168 Short-duration gamma-ray burst (SGRB) sample
table2.dat 62 31 Host galaxy properties for FRBs and GRB 060502B
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See also:
J/other/PASA/33.45 : FRBCAT: The Fast Radio Burst (FRB) Cat. (Petroff+, 2016)
J/ApJ/818/110 : Short GRBs with Fermi GBM and Swift BAT (Burns+, 2016)
J/ApJS/257/59 : First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Cat. (CHIME/FRB Col.+, 2021)
J/A+A/675/A99 : FRBs search with Fermi-LAT (Principe+, 2023)
J/A+A/704/A25 : FRB 20121102A parameters of the NRT bursts (Ng+, 2025)
http://frbhosts.org/ : FRB and galaxies host homepage
http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/grb_table.html : Swift GRBs homepage
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~jcg/grbgen.html : GRBs collected by J. Greiner
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- Name GRB Name
12- 18 F7.3 --- T90 [0.018/220] Duration parameter (1)
20- 28 F9.5 deg RAdeg [5.68/353.3] Right Ascension (J2000)
30- 38 F9.5 deg DEdeg [-82.8/72.4] Declination (J2000)
40- 45 F6.3 arcmin PosErr [0.002/21] localization uncertainty
47- 52 F6.4 --- z [0.01/6.7]? Redshift
54- 61 A8 --- Ref References (2)
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Note (1): Time taken to accumulate 90% of the burst fluence starting
at the 5% fluence level
Note (2): References as follows:
1 = Barbier et al. (2007GCN..6623....1B 2007GCN..6623....1B)
2 = Barthelmy et al. (2009GCN..9494....1B 2009GCN..9494....1B)
3 = Barthelmy et al. (2017GCN.21981....1B 2017GCN.21981....1B)
4 = Beardmore et al. (2015GCN.17743....1B 2015GCN.17743....1B)
5 = Butler et al. (2005GCN..3570....1B 2005GCN..3570....1B)
6 = Cannizzo et al. (2006GCN..5904....1C 2006GCN..5904....1C)
7 = D'Elia et al. (2011GCN.12578....1D 2011GCN.12578....1D)
8 = Fermi Gbm Team & Likely Short Grb (2021GCN.30248....1F 2021GCN.30248....1F)
9 = Fletcher & Fermi-GBM Team (2021GCN.29536....1F 2021GCN.29536....1F)
10 = Golenetskii et al. (2008GCN..8676....1G 2008GCN..8676....1G)
11 = Grupe et al. (2009GCN..9945....1G 2009GCN..9945....1G)
12 = https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/grb_table.html
13 = J-G source, https://www.mpe.mpg.de/~jcg/grbgen.html
14 = 050724, Krimm et al. (2005GCN..3667....1K 2005GCN..3667....1K)
15 = Krimm et al. (2006GCN..5704....1K 2006GCN..5704....1K)
16 = Mao et al. (2008GCN..7665....1M 2008GCN..7665....1M)
17 = Norris et al. (2010GCN.11113....1N 2010GCN.11113....1N)
18 = Norris et al. (2010GCN.10427....1N 2010GCN.10427....1N)
19 = Pal'Shin et al. (2008GCN..8256....1P 2008GCN..8256....1P)
20 = Sakamoto et al. (2016GCN.19276....1S 2016GCN.19276....1S)
21 = Ukwatta et al. (2008GCN..7203....1U 2008GCN..7203....1U)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- Name FRB/GRB Name
12- 18 A7 --- Inst Instrument
20- 23 F4.1 kpc Offset [0/73]? FRB/GRB offset from host galaxy center
25- 28 F4.1 kpc E_Offset [0/22.6]? Upper Uncertainty on Offset
30- 33 F4.1 kpc e_Offset [0/22.6]? Lower Uncertainty on Offset
35- 38 F4.2 Msun/yr SFR [0.06/8.1] Host galaxy star formation rate
40- 43 F4.2 Msun/yr E_SFR [0.01/2.42]? Upper Uncertainty on SFR
45- 48 F4.2 Msun/yr e_SFR [0.01/2.42]? Lower Uncertainty on SFR
50- 54 F5.2 [Msun] logMs [8.16/11.85] Log of stellar mass
56 A1 --- Rep [-yn] Repeater?
58- 62 A5 --- Ref References (1)
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Note (1): References as follows:
1 = Bhandari et al. (2022AJ....163...69B 2022AJ....163...69B)
2 = Bloom et al. (2007ApJ...654..878B 2007ApJ...654..878B)
3 = http://frbhosts.org
4 = Law et al. (2024ApJ...967...29L 2024ApJ...967...29L)
5 = Li & Zhang (2020ApJ...899L...6L 2020ApJ...899L...6L)
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(End) Prepared by [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 26-Mar-2026