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Statistical association between the candidate repeating FRB 20200320A and a galaxy group
Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi, Kendrick M. Smith, D. Michilli, Ziggy Pleunis, Mohit Bhardwaj, Matt Dobbs, Gwendolyn M. Eadie, Emmanuel Fonseca, B. M. Gaensler, Jane Kaczmarek, Victoria M. Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Dongzi Li, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Emily Petroff, Mubdi Rahman, Paul Scholz, David C. Stenning
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We present results from angular cross-correlations between select samples of CHIME/FRB repeaters and galaxies in three photometric galaxy surveys, which have shown correlations with the first CHIME/FRB catalog containing repeating and nonrepeating sources: WISE×SCOS, DESI-BGS, and DESI-LRG. We find a statistically significant correlation (p-value <0.001, after accounting for look-elsewhere factors) between a sample of repeaters with extragalactic dispersion measure DM >395 pc cm⁻³ and WISE×SCOS galaxies with redshift z>0.275. We demonstrate that the correlation arises surprisingly because of a statistical association between FRB 20200320A (extragalactic DM ≈550 pc cm⁻³) and a galaxy group in the same dark matter halo at redshift z≈0.32. We estimate that the host halo, along with an intervening halo at redshift z≈0.12, accounts for at least $\sim30%of the extragalactic DM. Our results strongly motivate incorporating galaxy group and cluster catalogs into direct host association pipelines for FRBs with≲1'$ localization precision, effectively utilizing the two-point information to constrain FRB properties such as their redshift and DM distributions. In addition, we find marginal evidence for a negative correlation at 99.4% CL between a sample of repeating FRBs with baseband data (median extragalactic DM $=354$ pc cm⁻³) and DESI-LRG galaxies with redshift 0.3≤z<0.45, suggesting that the repeaters might be more prone than apparent nonrepeaters to propagation effects in FRB-galaxy correlations due to intervening free electrons over angular scales $\sim$$0\mbox{.°}5$.
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