The RRATalog: a Galactic census of rotating radio transients
Devansh Agarwal, Evan F. Lewis, Duncan R. Lorimer, Maura A. McLaughlin, Bingyi Cui, Anna Turner, Natasha McMann

TL;DR
This paper presents the RRATalog, a comprehensive catalogue of 335 rotating radio transients, models their Galactic population, and estimates their total numbers and birth rates, revealing their relation to pulsars and supernovae.
Contribution
The study provides the first uniform population model of RRATs, estimates their total Galactic population, and compares their properties to pulsars and supernova progenitors.
Findings
Estimated 34,000 potentially observable RRATs above 30 mJy kpc$^2$ luminosity.
Population size comparable to canonical pulsars at high luminosities.
RRATs have longer periods and steeper luminosity functions than pulsars.
Abstract
Rotating radio transients (RRATs) represent a significant but poorly understood component of the Galactic neutron star population, characterized by sporadic emission first detectable only through single-pulse searches. We present the RRATalog, an up-to-date catalogue of 335 RRATs, and utilize a uniform sample of RRATs discovered in four Parkes telescope surveys to model their Galactic population. Accounting in detail for observational selection effects, we find a radial density profile similar to pulsars, but identify a significantly steeper luminosity function (power-law index ) than previously assumed. For sources beaming towards Earth, we estimate potentially observable RRATs above a peak luminosity of 30 mJy kpc. At these high luminosities, the RRAT population is comparable in size to that of canonical pulsars. Consistent with the observed…
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