The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog

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We present a catalog of 536 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project between 400 and 800 MHz from 2018 July 25 to 2019 July 1, including 62 bursts from 18 previously reported repeating sources.

• The catalog represents the first large sample, including bursts from repeaters and non-repeaters, observed in a single survey with uniform selection effects.
• This facilitates comparative and absolute studies of the FRB population.
• We show that repeaters and apparent non-repeaters have sky locations and dispersion measures (DMs) that are consistent with being drawn from the same distribution.