Searching for radio pulsation from SGR 1935+2154 with the Parkes ultra-wideband low receiver

doi:10.52396/JUST-2021-0132

Abstract

Abstract: Magnetars have been proposed to be the origin of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) soon after its initial discovery. The detection of the first Galactic FRB 200428 from SGR 1935+2154 has made this hypothesis more convincing. In October 2020, this source was supposed to be in an extremely active state again. We then carried out a 1.6-hours follow-up observation of SGR 1935+2154 using the new ultra-wideband low (UWL) receiver of the Parkes 64 m radio telescope covering a frequency range of 704-4032 MHz. However, no convincing signal was detected in either of our single pulse or periodicity searches. We obtained a limit on the flux density of periodic signal of 3.6 μJy using the full 3.3 GHz bandwidth data sets, which is the strictest limit for that of SGR 1935+2154. Our full bandwidth limit on the single pulses fluence is 35 mJy ms, which is well below the brightest single pulses detected by the FAST radio telescope just two days before our observation. Assuming that SGR 1935+2154 is active during our observation, our results suggest that its radio bursts are either intrinsically narrow-band or show a steep spectrum.

Key words: magnetars, fast radio bursts, soft gamma-ray repeater

CLC Number:

P111.44

TANG Zhenfan, ZHANG Songbo, DAI Shi, LI Ye, WU Xuefeng. Searching for radio pulsation from SGR 1935+2154 with the Parkes ultra-wideband low receiver[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, 2021, 51(6): 441-446.

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