A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude

• Main Authors: McLaughlin, M. A., Miller, R., Burgay, M., Caleb, M., Dhillon, V. S., Kramer, M., Van Straten, W., Anghinolfi, M., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Bormuth, R., Circella, M., Coyle, P., Di Palma, I., Bojaddaini, I. El, Galatà, S., Geißelsöder, S., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Van Haren, H., Hello, Y., Illuminati, G., De Jong, M., Kreter, M., Lotze, M., Melis, K., Moussa, A., Pellegrino, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Tayalati, Y., Turpin, D., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Aharonian, F., Ait Benkhali, F., Andersson, T., Balzer, A., Berge, D., Bernhard, S., Bernlöhr, K., Böttcher, M., Boisson, C., Brun, F., Cerruti, M., Chakraborty, N., Chalme-Calvet, R., Chrétien, M., Davids, I. D., Degrange, B., Devin, J., Domainko, W., Dubus, G., Egberts, K., Eger, P., Fegan, S., Fernandes, M. V., Fontaine, G., Förster, A., Funk, S., Gajdus, M., Gottschall, D., Heinzelmann, G., Holler, M., Ivascenko, A., Janiak, M., Jankowsky, F., Jogler, T., Kastendieck, M. A., King, J., Klepser, S., Laffon, H., Marcowith, A., Meintjes, P. J., Mohamed, M., De Naurois, M., O'Brien, P., Öttl, S., Parsons, R. D., Pelletier, G., Perennes, C., Piel, Q., Pita, S., Pühlhofer, G., Renaud, M., Rosier-Lees, S., Salek, D., Settimo, M., Simoni, R., Tavernet, J. P., Tluczykont, M., Trichard, C., Van Soelen, B., Völk, H. J., Wadiasingh, Z., Zacharias, M., Żywucka, N.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg 2017
• ISSN: 0035-8711; 1365-2966
• DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2018-00585

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 $^{+1.2}_{-0.5}$ ms, and a measured peak flux density assuming that the burst was at beam centre of 0.7$^{+0.2}_{-0.1}$ Jy. The FRB originated at a Galactic longitude and latitude of 24.66°, 5.28° and 25° 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