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Abstract

In this paper, we present a sample of 21 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by different radio instruments before September 2021. Using the Anderson–Darling test, we compared the distributions of extra-Galactic dispersion measure (DME) of non-repeating FRBs, repeating FRBs and all FRBs. It was found that the DME values of three sub-samples are log-normally distributed. The DME of repeaters and non-repeaters were drawn from a different distribution on basis of the Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon test. In addition, assuming that the non-repeating FRBs identified currently may be potentially repeators, i.e., the repeating FRBs to be universal and representative, one can utilize the averaged fluence of repeating FRBs as an indication from which to derive an apparent intensity distribution function (IDF) with a power-law index of a1=1.10±0.14 (a2=1.01±0.16, the observed fluence as a statistical variant), which is in good agreement with the previous IDF of 16 non-repeating FRBs found by Li et al. Based on the above statistics of repeating and non-repeating FRBs, we propose that both types of FRBs may have different cosmological origins, spatial distributions and circum-burst environments. Interestingly, the differential luminosity distributions of repeating and non-repeating FRBs can also be well described by a broken power-law function with the same power-law index of −1.4.

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Title
The Statistical Similarity of Repeating and Non-Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
Author
Zhang, Kongjun 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Li, Longbiao 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhang, Zhibin 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Li, Qinmei 1 ; Luo, Juanjuan 3 ; Jiang, Min 1 

 Department of Physics, College of Physics, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China; [email protected] (K.Z.); [email protected] (Q.L.); [email protected] (M.J.) 
 School of Mathematics and Physics, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056005, China 
 College of Physics and Electronic Science, Qiannan Normal University, Duyun 55800, China; [email protected] 
First page
355
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
22181997
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2694095233
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.