A Southern sky search for repeating Fast Radio Bursts using the Australian SKA Pathfinder

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We have conducted a search for bright repeating Fast Radio Bursts in our nearby Universe with the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) in single-dish mode.

• We used eight ASKAP 12-m dishes, each equipped with a Chequerboard Phased Array Feed forming 36 beams on the sky, to survey $\sim$30,000 deg$^{2}$ of the southern sky ($-90^{\circ} < \delta < +30^{\circ}$) in 158 antenna days.
• The fluence limit of the survey is 22 Jyms.
• We report the detection of FRB 180515 in our survey.