CHIME detects FRB 1171352361 with DM=1555.6 at high significance

AI Summary

CHIME/FRB Real-time Search Pipeline detected a fast radio burst on 2026-07-26 at 22:15:19.616 UTC with a signal-to-noise ratio of 13.1 and importance score of 0.9999. The burst exhibits a dispersion measure of 1555.6±0.4 pc/cm³, significantly exceeding the Galactic maximum (34.6 pc/cm³), indicating an extragalactic origin. The event was localized to RA=158.52°, Dec=16.23° with ~0.56° positional uncertainty across the 400-800 MHz band. No follow-up observations or additional detections have been reported.

Measurements

Event ID1171352361
SourceCHIME
Alert typeFRB
Significancemedium
Trigger time (UTC)Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:15:19 GMT
Right ascension (J2000)158.5168477°
Declination (J2000)16.2265445°
Dispersion measure1555.6278076 pc/cm³
SNR13.1467142
GCN notices1
GCN circulars0

Notices (1)

CHIME — FRB · Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:15:19 GMT

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AI summary generated Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:55:36 GMT.