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A Matched Survey for the Enigmatic Low Radio Frequency Transient ILT J225347+862146
Yuping Huang, Marin M. Anderson, Gregg Hallinan, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Danny C. Price, Yashvi Sharma
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Discovered in 2011 with LOFAR, the 15 Jy low-frequency radio transient ILT J225347+862146 heralds a potentially prolific population of radio transients at <100 MHz. However, subsequent transient searches in similar parameter space yielded no detections. We test the hypothesis that these surveys at comparable sensitivity have missed the population due to mismatched survey parameters. In particular, the LOFAR survey used only 195 kHz of bandwidth at 60 MHz while other survey were at higher frequencies or had wider bandwidth. Using 137 hours of all-sky images from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA), we conduct a narrowband transient search at ∼10 Jy sensitivity with timescales from 10 min to 1 day and a bandwidth of 722 kHz at 60 MHz. To model remaining survey selection effects, we introduce a flexible Bayesian approach for inferring transient rates. We do not detect any transient and find compelling evidence that our non-detection is inconsistent with the detection of ILT J225347+862146. Under the assumption that the transient is astrophysical, we propose two hypotheses that may explain our non-detection. First, the transient population associated with ILT J225347+862146 may have a low all-sky density and display strong temporal clustering. Second, ILT J225347+862146 may be an extreme instance of the fluence distribution, of which we revise the surface density estimate at 15 Jy to 1.1×10⁻⁷ deg⁻² with a 95% credible interval of (3.5×10⁻¹², 3.4×10⁻⁷) deg⁻². Finally, we find a previously identified object coincident with ILT J225347+862146 to be an M dwarf at 420 pc.
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