The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project: System Overview

被引：248

作者：

Amiri, M. ^{[1
]}

Bandura, K. ^{[2
,3
]}

Berger, P. ^{[4
,5
]}

Bhardwaj, M. ^{[6
,7
]}

Boyce, M. M. ^{[6
,7
]}

Boyle, P. J. ^{[6
,7
]}

Brar, C. ^{[6
,7
]}

Burhanpurkar, M. ^{[8
]}

Chawla, P. ^{[6
,7
]}

Chowdhury, J. ^{[6
,7
,9
]}

Cliche, J. -F. ^{[6
,7
]}

Cranmer, M. D. ^{[6
,7
]}

Cubranic, D. ^{[1
]}

Deng, M. ^{[1
]}

Denman, N. ^{[10
]}

Dobbs, M. ^{[6
,7
]}

Fandino, M. ^{[1
]}

Fonseca, E. ^{[6
,7
]}

Gaensler, B. M. ^{[11
]}

Giri, U. ^{[12
]}

Gilbert, A. J. ^{[6
,7
]}

Good, D. C. ^{[1
]}

Guliani, S. ^{[1
]}

Halpern, M. ^{[1
]}

Hinshaw, G. ^{[1
]}

Hofer, C. ^{[1
]}

Josephy, A. ^{[6
,7
]}

Kaspi, V. M. ^{[6
,7
]}

Landecker, T. L. ^{[13
]}

Lang, D. ^{[10
,11
,12
]}

Liao, H. ^{[6
]}

Masui, K. W. ^{[1
]}

Mena-Parra, J. ^{[6
,7
]}

Naidu, A. ^{[6
,7
]}

Newburgh, L. B. ^{[14
]}

Ng, C. ^{[11
]}

Patel, C. ^{[6
,11
]}

Pen, U. -L. ^{[4
,12
]}

Pinsonneault-Marotte, T. ^{[1
]}

Pleunis, Z. ^{[6
,7
]}

Ravandi, M. Rafiei ^{[12
]}

Ransom, S. M. ^{[15
]}

Renard, A. ^{[11
]}

Scholz, P. ^{[13
]}

Sigurdson, K. ^{[1
]}

Siegel, S. R. ^{[6
,7
]}

Smith, K. M. ^{[12
]}

Stairs, I. H. ^{[1
]}

Tendulkar, S. P. ^{[6
,7
]}

Vanderlinde, K. ^{[10
,11
]}

机构：

[1] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, 6224 Agr Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

[2] West Virginia Univ, Ctr Gravitat Waves & Cosmol, Chestnut Ridge Res Bldg, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA

[3] West Virginia Univ, CSEE, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA

[4] Univ Toronto, Canadian Inst Theoret Astrophys, 60 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada

[5] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, 60 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada

[6] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, 3600 Univ St, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada

[7] McGill Univ, McGill Space Inst, 3550 Univ St, Montreal, PQ H3A 2A7, Canada

[8] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[9] Univ Southern Calif, Ming Hsieh Dept Elect Engn, 3740 McClintock Ave,EEB 102, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA

[10] Univ Toronto, Dept Astron & Astrophys, 50 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada

[11] Univ Toronto, Dunlap Inst Astron & Astrophys, 50 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada

[12] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, 31 Caroline St N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada

[13] Natl Res Council Canada, Herzberg Astron & Astrophys Res Ctr, Domin Radio Astrophys Observ, POB 248, Penticton, BC V2A 6J9, Canada

[14] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[15] NRAO, 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2018年 / 863卷 / 01期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 加拿大创新基金会;

关键词：

instrumentation: interferometers; methods: observational; radio continuum: general; techniques: interferometric; telescopes; LIMITS; SCATTERING; TELESCOPE; REDSHIFT; SEARCHES; GALAXY; MHZ;

D O I：

10.3847/1538-4357/aad188

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a novel transit radio telescope operating across the 400-800 MHz band. CHIME is composed of four 20 m x 100 m semicylindrical paraboloid reflectors, each of which has 256 dual-polarization feeds suspended along its axis, giving it a greater than or similar to 200 deg(2) field of view. This, combined with wide bandwidth, high sensitivity, and a powerful correlator, makes CHIME an excellent instrument for the detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs). The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB) will search beam-formed, high time and frequency resolution data in real time for FRBs in the CHIME field of view. Here we describe the CHIME/FRB back end, including the real-time FRB search and detection software pipeline, as well as the planned offline analyses. We estimate a CHIME/FRB detection rate of 2-42 FRBs sky(-1) day(-1) normalizing to the rate estimated at 1.4 GHz by Vander Wiel et al. Likely science outcomes of CHIME/FRB are also discussed. CHIME/FRB is currently operational in a commissioning phase, with science operations expected to commence in the latter half of 2018.

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