A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude
Creators: name: Petroff, E.
name: Burke-Spolaor, S.
name: Keane, E. F.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Miller, R.
name: Andreoni, I.
name: Bailes, Matthew
name: Barr, E. D.
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name: Burgay, M.
name: Caleb, M.
name: Champion, D.
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name: Cooke, Jeff
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name: Farnes, J. S.
name: Hardy, L. K.
name: Jaroenjittichai, P.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Kasliwal, M.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Littlefair, S. P.
name: Macquart, J. P.
name: Mickaliger, M.
name: Possenti, A.
name: Pritchard, Tyler
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name: Rest, A.
name: Rowlinson, A.
name: Sawangwit, U.
name: Stappers, B.
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name: Tiburzi, C.
name: van Straten, W.
name: Albert, A.
name: André, M.
name: Anghinolfi, M.
name: Anton, G.
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name: Aubert, J. J.
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name: Barrios-Martí, J.
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name: Gay, P.
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Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We report on the discovery of a new fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 150215, with the Parkes radio telescope on 2015 February 15. The burst was detected in real time with a dispersion measure (DM) of 1105.6 +/- 0.8 pc cm(-3), a pulse duration of 2.8(-0.5)(+1.2) ms, and a measured peak flux density assuming that the burst was at beam centre of 0.7(-0.1)(+0.2) Jy. The FRB originated at a Galactic longitude and latitude of 24.66 degrees, 5.28 degrees and 25 degrees away from the Galactic Center. The burst was found to be 43 +/- 5 per cent linearly polarized with a rotation measure (RM) in the range -9 &lt; RM &lt; 12 rad m(-2) (95 per cent confidence level), consistent with zero. The burst was followed up with 11 telescopes to search for radio, optical, X-ray, gamma-ray and neutrino emission. Neither transient nor variable emission was found to be associated with the burst and no repeat pulses have been observed in 17.25 h of observing. The sightline to the burst is close to the Galactic plane and the observed physical properties of FRB 150215 demonstrate the existence of sight lines of anomalously low RM for a given electron column density. The Galactic RM foreground may approach a null value due to magnetic field reversals along the line of sight, a decreased total electron column density from the Milky Way, or some combination of these effects. A lower Galactic DM contribution might explain why this burst was detectable whereas previous searches at low latitude have had lower detection rates than those out of the plane.