Kavli Affiliate: Kiyoshi W. Masui
| First 5 Authors: Thomas C. Abbott, Andrew V. Zwaniga, Charanjot Brar, Victoria M. Kaspi, Emily Petroff
| Summary:
We present frb-voe, a publicly available software package that enables radio
observatories to broadcast fast radio burst (FRB) alerts to subscribers through
low-latency virtual observatory events (VOEvents). We describe a use-case of
frb-voe by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst
(CHIME/FRB) Collaboration, which has broadcast thousands of FRB alerts to
subscribers worldwide. Using this service, observers have daily opportunities
to conduct rapid multi-wavelength follow-up observations of new FRB sources.
Alerts are distributed as machine-readable reports and as emails containing FRB
metadata, and are available to the public within approximately 13 seconds of
detection. A sortable database and a downloadable JSON file containing FRB
metadata from all broadcast alerts can be found on the CHIME/FRB public
webpage. The frb-voe service also provides users with the ability to retrieve
FRB names from the Transient Name Server (TNS) through the frb-voe client user
interface (CLI). The frb-voe service can act as a foundation on which any
observatory that detects FRBs can build its own VOEvent broadcasting service to
contribute to the coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up of astrophysical
transients.
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