TONE: A CHIME/FRB Outrigger Pathfinder for localizations of Fast Radio Bursts using Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Pranav Sanghavi, Calvin Leung, Kevin Bandura, Tomas Cassanelli, Jane, Kaczmarek, Victoria M. Kaspi, Kholoud Khairy, Adam Lanman, Mattias Lazda,, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Juan Mena-Parra, Daniele Michilli, Ue-Li Pen, Jeffrey B., Peterson, Mubdi Rahman, Vishwangi Shah

TL;DR
The paper introduces TONE, an interferometric array that enhances the localization of Fast Radio Bursts using VLBI techniques, serving as a pathfinder for the CHIME/FRB Outriggers project to achieve subarcsecond precision.
Contribution
It presents the design, sensitivity, and astrometric performance of TONE, demonstrating its capability to localize single pulses with high precision and paving the way for future FRB host galaxy identification.
Findings
TONE achieves 0.1-0.2 arcsec localization errors for the Crab pulsar.
The array demonstrates effective single-pulse VLBI techniques at discovery time.
Calibration uncertainties dominate astrometric errors, with potential improvements from higher-cadence calibration.
Abstract
The sensitivity and field of view of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has enabled its fast radio burst (FRB) backend to detect thousands of FRBs. However, the low angular resolution of CHIME prevents it from localizing most FRBs to their host galaxies. Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) can readily provide the subarcsecond resolution needed to localize many FRBs to their hosts. Thus we developed TONE: an interferometric array of eight dishes to serve as a pathfinder for the CHIME/FRB Outriggers project, which will use wide field of view cylinders to determine the sky positions for a large sample of FRBs, revealing their positions within their host galaxies to subarcsecond precision. In the meantime, TONE's baseline with CHIME proves to be an excellent testbed for the development and characterization of single-pulse…
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Taxonomy
TopicsPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research · Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing · Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
