Initial Results from the ALFABURST Survey

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Mayuresh Surnis, Griffin Foster, Golnoosh Golpayegani, Aris Karastergiou, Duncan Lorimer, Jayanth Chennamangalam, Kaustubh Rajwade, Maura McLaughlin, Devansh Agarwal, Wes Armour

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Dan Werthimer, Jeff Cobb, Andrew Siemion, David MacMahon, Deepthi Gorthi, Xin Pei

/ Abstract

Here, we present initial results from the ALFABURST radio transient survey, which is currently running in a commensal mode with the ALFA receiver at the Arecibo telescope. We observed for a total of 1400 hours and have detected single pulses from known pulsars but did not detect any FRBs. The non-detection of FRBs is consistent with the current FRB sky rates.