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    Glowacki, M.; Lee-Waddell, K.; Deller, A. T.; Deg, N.; Gordon, A. C.; Grundy, J. A.; Marnoch, L.; Shen, A. X.; Ryder, S. D.; Shannon, R. M.; Wong, O. I.; Dénes, H.; Koribalski, B. S.; Murugeshan, C.; Rhee, J.; Westmeier, T.; Bhandari, S.; Bosma, A.; Holwerda, B. W.; Prochaska, J. X.

    Astrophysical journal/˜The œAstrophysical journal, 05/2023, Volume: 949, Issue: 1
    Journal Article

    Abstract We report on the commensal ASKAP detection of a fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 20211127I, and the detection of neutral hydrogen (H i ) emission in the FRB host galaxy, WALLABY J131913–185018 (hereafter W13–18). This collaboration between the CRAFT and WALLABY survey teams marks the fifth, and most distant, FRB host galaxy detected in H i , not including the Milky Way. We find that W13–18 has an H i mass of M HI = 6.5 × 10 9 M ⊙ , an H i -to-stellar mass ratio of 2.17, and coincides with a continuum radio source of flux density at 1.4 GHz of 1.3 mJy. The H i global spectrum of W13–18 appears to be asymmetric, albeit the H i observation has a low signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), and the galaxy itself appears modestly undisturbed. These properties are compared to the early literature of H i emission detected in other FRB hosts to date, where either the H i global spectra were strongly asymmetric, or there were clearly disrupted H i intensity map distributions. W13–18 lacks a sufficient S/N to determine whether it is significantly less asymmetric in its H i distribution than previous examples of FRB host galaxies. However, there are no strong signs of a major interaction in the optical image of the host galaxy that would stimulate a burst of star formation and hence the production of putative FRB progenitors related to massive stars and their compact remnants.