Detection of A Fast Radio Burst from FRB 121102 with the Haoping 40m Radio Telescope, China
ATel #13090; Jintao LUO (NTSC, China), Chengshi ZHAO (NTSC), Yuping GAO (NTSC), Minglei TONG (NTSC), Bian LI (NTSC), Yifeng LI (NTSC), Tinggao YANG (NTSC), Yongnan RAO (NTSC), Xiaochun LU (NTSC), and Jun YANG (OSO, Sweden)
on 9 Sep 2019; 09:22 UT
Credential Certification: Jun Yang (jun.yang@chalmers.se)
Subjects: Radio, Transient
FRB 121102 is the first known transient source with repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). Following the recent report of the radio detection of multiple bursts (Li et al. ATel #13064), we monitored the FRB repeater at L band with the new Haoping 40-meter radio telescope, National Time Service Center (NTSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences. A fast radio burst showing a hint of two peaks was detected at UT 00h08m46s, 2019 September 6 during the two-hour observations. The detection has a signal to noise ratio of about 14, reported by the single pulse searching software PRESTO (Ransom et al. 2002).
The Haoping radio telescope is located at Haoping Village (Longitude: 109.949613° E, Latitude: 34.174974° N, from Google map), Luonan County, Shanxi Province. Currently, the telescope has a room-temperature receiver at L band for the pulsar timing observations. The FRB observations used a newly-developed digital backend, which can cover the observing frequencies of 1100 − 1750 MHz and support coherent de-dispersion.
