Amanda M. Cook

Publications

The most up-to-date list of my publications can be found with ORCID: ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6422-8125
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First Author:

  1. FRB 20250316A: A Brilliant and Nearby One-Off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 parsec Precision
    The CHIME/FRB Collaboration (2025), corresponding author Cook, A. M..
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 989, Issue 2, id.L48, 29 pp.
  2. k-Contact Distance for Noisy Nonhomogeneous Spatial Point Data with application to Repeating Fast Radio Burst sources
    Cook, A. M., Li, D., Eadie, G. M., Stenning, D. C., Scholz, P., Bingham, D. et al. (2024).
    Accepted to Annals of Applied Statistics (28-10-2025), eprint arXiv:2410.12146
  3. Contemporaneous X-ray Observations of 30 Bright Radio Bursts from the Prolific Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20220912A
    Cook, A. M., Scholz, P., Pearlman, A. B., Abbott, T. C., Cruces, M. et al. (2024).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 974, Issue 2, id.170
  4. An FRB Sent Me a DM: Constraining the Electron Column of the Milky Way Halo with Fast Radio Burst Dispersion Measures from CHIME/FRB
    Cook, A. M., M. Bhardwaj, B. M. Gaensler, P. Scholz, G. M. Eadie et al. (2023).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 946, Issue 2, id.58, 14 pp.

Nth Author:

  1. Investigating the Sightline of a Highly Scattered Fast Radio Burst through a Cosmic Sheet Structure in the Local Universe
    Shin, K., Leung, C., Simha, S., Andersen, B. C., Fonseca, E., and 29 colleagues (2025).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 993, Issue 2, id.208, 16 pp.
  2. CHIME/Fast Radio Burst/Pulsar Discovery of a Nearby Long-period Radio Transient with a Timing Glitch
    Dong, F. A., Clarke, T. E., Curtin, A., Kumar, A., Mckinven, R., and 20 colleagues (2025).
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 990, Issue 2, id.L49, 15 pp.
  3. James Webb Space Telescope Observations of the Nearby and Precisely Localized FRB 20250316A: A Potential Near-IR Counterpart and Implications for the Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts
    Blanchard, P. K., Berger, E., Andrew, S. E., Suresh, A., Uno, K., and 21 colleagues (2025).
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 989, Issue 2, id.L49, 10 pp.
  4. Multiwavelength constraints on the origin of a nearby repeating fast radio burst source in a globular cluster
    Pearlman, A. B., Scholz, P., Bethapudi, S., Hessels, J. W. T., Kaspi, V. M., and 24 colleagues (2025).
    Nature Astronomy, Volume 9, p. 111-127
  5. frb-voe: A Real-time Virtual Observatory Event Alert Service for Fast Radio Bursts
    Abbott, T. C., Zwaniga, A. V., Brar, C., Kaspi, V. M., Petroff, E., and 10 colleagues (2025).
    The Astronomical Journal, Volume 169, Issue 1, id.39, 7 pp.
  6. A pulsar-like polarization angle swing from a nearby fast radio burst
    Mckinven, R., Bhardwaj, M., Eftekhari, T., Kilpatrick, C. D., Kirichenko, A., and 39 colleagues (2025).
    Nature, Volume 637, Issue 8044, pp. 43-47
  7. A Search for Persistent Radio Sources toward Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Discovered by CHIME/FRB
    Ibik, A. L., Drout, M. R., Gaensler, B. M., Scholz, P., Sridhar, N., and 23 colleagues (2024).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 976, Issue 2, id.199, 30 pp.
  8. Do All Fast Radio Bursts Repeat? Constraints from CHIME/FRB Far Sidelobe FRBs
    Lin, H.-H., Scholz, P., Ng, C., Pen, U.-L., Bhardwaj, M., and 44 colleagues (2024).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 975, Issue 1, id.75, 25 pp.
  9. Constraining Near-simultaneous Radio Emission from Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Using CHIME/FRB
    Curtin, A. P., Sirota, S., Kaspi, V. M., Tendulkar, S. P., Bhardwaj, M., and 10 colleagues (2024).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 972, Issue 1, id.125, 19 pp.
  10. Host Galaxies for Four Nearby CHIME/FRB Sources and the Local Universe FRB Host Galaxy Population
    Bhardwaj, M., Michilli, D., Kirichenko, A. Y., Modilim, O., Shin, K., and 23 colleagues (2024).
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 971, Issue 2, id.L51, 27 pp.
  11. Updating the First CHIME/FRB Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts with Baseband Data
    The CHIME/FRB Collaboration (2024).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 969, Issue 2, id.145, 17 pp.
  12. Polarization Properties of 128 Nonrepeating Fast Radio Bursts from the First CHIME/FRB Baseband Catalog
    Pandhi, A., Pleunis, Z., Mckinven, R., Gaensler, B. M., Su, J., and 21 colleagues (2024).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 968, Issue 2, id.50, 34 pp.
  13. Proposed Host Galaxies of Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources Detected by CHIME/FRB
    Ibik, A. L., Drout, M. R., Gaensler, B. M., Scholz, P., Michilli, D., and 16 colleagues (2024).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 961, Issue 1, id.99, 17 pp.
  14. A CHIME/FRB Study of Burst Rate and Morphological Evolution of the Periodically Repeating FRB 20180916B
    Sand, K. R., Breitman, D., Michilli, D., Kaspi, V. M., Chawla, P., and 29 colleagues (2023).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 956, Issue 1, id.23, 19 pp.
  15. The second set of pulsar discoveries by CHIME/FRB/Pulsar: 14 rotating radio transients and 7 pulsars
    Dong, F. A., Crowter, K., Meyers, B. W., Pleunis, Z., Stairs, I., and 11 colleagues (2023).
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 524, Issue 4, pp.5132-5147
  16. Limits on Fast Radio Burst-like Counterparts to Gamma-Ray Bursts Using CHIME/FRB
    Curtin, A. P., Tendulkar, S. P., Josephy, A., Chawla, P., Andersen, B., and 19 colleagues (2023).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 954, Issue 2, id.154, 16 pp.
  17. Subarcminute Localization of 13 Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB
    Michilli, D., Bhardwaj, M., Brar, C., Gaensler, B. M., Kaspi, V. M., and 25 colleagues (2023).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 950, Issue 2, id.134, 12 pp.
  18. CHIME/FRB Discovery of 25 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources
    The CHIME/FRB Collaboration (2023).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 947, Issue 2, id.83, 31 pp.
  19. Erratum: "The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog" (2021, ApJS, 257, 59)
    The CHIME/FRB Collaboration(2023).
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 264, Issue 2, id.53, 3 pp.
  20. The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog
    The CHIME/FRB Collaboration(2021).
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 257, Issue 2, id.59, 41 pp.
  21. A Nearby Repeating Fast Radio Burst in the Direction of M81
    Bhardwaj, M., Gaensler, B. M., Kaspi, V. M., Landecker, T. L., Mckinven, R., and 21 colleagues (2021).
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 910, Issue 2, id.L18, 14 pp.
  22. A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar
    The CHIME/FRB Collaboration (2020).
    Nature, Volume 587, Issue 7832, p.54-58
  23. Simultaneous X-Ray and Radio Observations of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB ∼ 180916.J0158+65
    Scholz, P., Cook, A., Cruces, M., Hessels, J. W. T., Kaspi, V. M., and 33 colleagues (2020).
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 901, Issue 2, id.165, 9 pp.

Non-refereed:

  1. Fast Radio Bursts 2025
    Cook A. M. & Curtin, A. P. (2025) Nature Astronomy Meeting Report
  2. CHIME/FRB source FRB 20250206A detected less than 1 minute after LVK binary merger S250206dm, however the probability of spatial coincidence is order 0.1%
    Cook, A. M., The CHIME/FRB Collaboration. (2025) The Astronomer's Telegram, No. 17021

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