{
  "id": "1604.03909",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-04-13T19:03:20.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-04-13T19:03:20.000Z",
  "title": "The Euclidean distribution of Fast Radio Bursts",
  "authors": [
    "Niels Oppermann",
    "Liam Connor",
    "Ue-Li Pen"
  ],
  "comment": "five short pages; comments welcome",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "astro-ph.IM"
  ],
  "abstract": "We investigate whether current data on the distribution of observed flux densities of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are consistent with a constant source density in Euclidean space. We use the number of FRBs detected in two surveys with different characteristics along with the observed signal-to-noise ratios of the detected FRBs in a formalism similar to a V/V_max-test to constrain the distribution of flux densities. We find consistency between the data and a Euclidean distribution. Any extension of this model is therefore not data-driven and needs to be motivated separately. As a byproduct we also obtain new improved limits for the FRB rate at 1.4 GHz, which had not been constrained in this way before.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-04-13T19:03:20.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "fast radio bursts",
      "euclidean distribution",
      "flux densities",
      "constant source density",
      "euclidean space"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2016arXiv160403909O"
    }
  }
}