Radio Monitoring Campaign of Active Repeater FRB 20220912A with CHIME
Thomas C. Abbott, Aaron B. Pearlman, Victoria M. Kaspi, Ayush Pandhi, Charanjot Brar, Alyssa Cassity, Amanda M. Cook, Alice P. Curtin, Emmanuel Fonseca, Bryan M. Gaensler, Deborah C. Good, Jason W. Hessels, Afrokk Khan, Calvin Leung, Robert A. Main, Ryan Mckinven, Bradley W. Meyers, Kenzie Nimmo, Mason Ng, Ziggy Pleunis, Paul Scholz, Vishwangi Shah, Kaitlyn Shin
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FRB 20220912A is a highly active repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source, discovered by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) using its real-time FRB detection system (CHIME/FRB). Here, we present results from a radio monitoring campaign of FRB 20220912A using CHIME, including ~200 hours of data collected by CHIME/Pulsar, spanning 1.5 years following the source's discovery. We present an analysis of a sample of 828 CHIME-detected bursts from FRB 20220912A, in the 400-800 MHz radio frequency band. The source remains highly active for ~10 weeks and has a bimodal wait-time distribution with peaks at $160^{+120}_{-70}$ ms and $306^{+14}_{-13}$ s. Assuming a radio efficiency factor of $10^{-4}$ and a beaming angle of 0.1, we estimate the total emitted energy from the source over the entire observing campaign to be $2 \times 10^{43}$ ergs. We report a 2.3$σ$ detection of a linear increase in the DM of $1.4 \pm 0.6$ pc cm$^{-3}$ yr$^{-1}$, with no significant trend in rotation measure (with a 3$σ$ upper limit of 13.4 rad m$^{-2}$ yr$^{-1}$). We contrast our findings with other active repeaters, which exhibit different DM and RM evolution to indicate that FRB 20220912A may reside in a unique local environment.