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March 5, 2026The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series15 citationsOpen Access

The Second CHIME/FRB Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts

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TAThomas AbbottBABridget C. AndersenACAndrew Chi

Key Points

  • The aim is to present a comprehensive catalog of fast radio bursts observed with improved analysis techniques.
  • Utilization of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment telescope to observe FRBs
  • Cataloging 4539 bursts from 3641 unique sources, including known repeating sources
  • Detailed analysis of each burst's properties using a uniform framework
  • Included 981 bursts from 83 known repeating sources
  • Provided measurements of key parameters such as arrival time, intrinsic width, and flux density
  • Validated previous inferences with updated measurements and assessed the consistency of detection rates

Abstract

Abstract We present a catalog of 4539 fast radio bursts (FRBs) observed with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment telescope between 2018 July 25 and 2023 September 15. These bursts originate from 3641 unique sources, including 981 bursts from 83 known repeating sources. For each FRB, the catalog provides an O ( 1 0 ′ ) estimate of sky location along with corresponding measurements of cumulative exposure time and survey sensitivity over the observing period. It includes a total-intensity dynamic spectrum between 400 and 800 MHz at 0.983 ms resolution. From this spectrum, we constrain a model of the burst morphology and measure key parameters such as arrival time, intrinsic temporal width, dispersion measure, scattering time, and flux density. This second catalog includes all FRBs from the first catalog, with every event reprocessed using a uniform and improved analysis framework. We show that previously published inferences remain valid under the updated measurements. We assess consistency of the detection rate across observational parameters, present initial distributions of burst properties, and outline ongoing and future studies that will use this catalog to investigate the nature of FRBs and their utility as astrophysical and cosmological probes.

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Abbott et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a91cf1d6127c7a504bfd96https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ae3828
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