{
  "id": "1512.02738",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-12-09T03:36:56.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-12-09T03:36:56.000Z",
  "title": "Are the distributions of Fast Radio Burst properties consistent with a cosmological population?",
  "authors": [
    "M. Caleb",
    "C. Flynn",
    "M. Bailes",
    "E. D. Barr",
    "R. W. Hunstead",
    "E. F. Keane",
    "V. Ravi",
    "W. van Straten"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, Submitted for publication in MNRAS",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "High time resolution radio surveys over the last few years have discovered a population of millisecond-duration transient bursts called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which remain of unknown origin. FRBs exhibit dispersion consistent with propagation through a cold plasma and dispersion measures indicative of an origin at cosmological distances. In this paper we perform Monte Carlo simulations of a cosmological population of FRBs, based on assumptions consistent with observations of their energy distribution, their spatial density as a function of redshift and the properties of the interstellar and intergalactic media. We examine whether the dispersion measures, fluences, inferred redshifts, signal-to-noises and effective widths of known FRBs are consistent with a cosmological population. Statistical analyses indicate that at least 50 events at Parkes are required to distinguish between a constant co-moving FRB density, and a FRB density that evolves with redshift like the cosmological star formation rate density.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-12-09T03:36:56.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "fast radio burst properties consistent",
      "cosmological population",
      "star formation rate density",
      "high time resolution radio surveys"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1093/mnras/stw175"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1408841
    }
  }
}