Publications

Papers

Work by the lab and the collaborations we're part of, from our time at WVU. Dissertations and theses are listed with their authors on the people page. Selected work is marked in place, so every paper appears only once on this page.

Peer reviewed

Journal articles

57 papers in refereed journals, grouped by year.

2026 2

Selected work
Millisecond-cadence Radio Frequency Interference Filters

J. W. Kania, K. Bandura, D. R. Lorimer, R. Prestage

The Astronomical Journal · AJ 171, 73 · 2026

K. BanduraJ. Kania
- DOI
The Second CHIME/FRB Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · ApJS 283, 34 · 2026

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

2025 9

A Catalog of Local Universe Fast Radio Bursts from CHIME/FRB and the KKO Outrigger

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · ApJS 280, 6 · 2025

K. BanduraK. Khairy
- DOI
- arXiv
A pulsar-like polarization angle swing from a nearby fast radio burst

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

Nature · 637, 43 · 2025

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
A Very Long Baseline Interferometry Calibrator Grid at 600 MHz for Fast Radio Transient Localizations with CHIME/FRB Outriggers

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 981, 39 · 2025

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
A VLBI Software Correlator for Fast Radio Transients

C. Leung, S. Andrew, K. W. Masui, et al.

The Astronomical Journal · AJ 170, 53 · 2025

K. Khairy
- DOI
- arXiv
Beam Maps of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Measured With a Drone

W. Tyndall et al., incl. K. Bandura

IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation · IEEE OJAP 6, 928 · 2025

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
CHIME/FRB Outriggers: Design Overview

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 993, 55 · 2025

K. BanduraK. BhopiK. Khairy
- DOI
- arXiv
Demonstration of hybrid foreground removal on CHIME data

CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

Physical Review D · PRD 111, 103531 · 2025

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
FRB 20250316A: A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · ApJL 989, L48 · 2025

K. BanduraK. Bhopi
- DOI
- arXiv
Stellar Mass-Dispersion Measure Correlations Constrain Baryonic Feedback in Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · ApJL 991, L25 · 2025

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

2024 7

A Detection of Cosmological 21 cm Emission from CHIME in Cross-correlation with eBOSS Measurements of the Lya Forest

CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 963, 23 · 2024

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Selected work
A fast radio burst localized at detection to an edge-on galaxy using very-long-baseline interferometry

T. Cassanelli, C. Leung, P. Sanghavi, et al., incl. K. Bandura

Nature Astronomy · Nat. Astron. 8, 1429 · 2024
T. Cassanelli, C. Leung, and P. Sanghavi contributed equally — co-first and co-corresponding authors.

K. BanduraP. SanghaviK. Khairy
- DOI
- arXiv
CHIME/FRB Outriggers: KKO Station System and Commissioning Results

A. E. Lanman et al. (CHIME/FRB Collaboration), incl. K. Bandura

The Astronomical Journal · AJ 168, 87 · 2024

K. BanduraK. Khairy
- DOI
- arXiv
Do All Fast Radio Bursts Repeat? Constraints from CHIME/FRB Far Sidelobe FRBs

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 975, 75 · 2024

K. BanduraK. Khairy
- DOI
- arXiv
Interference detection in radio astronomy: applying Shapiro-Wilks normality test, spectral entropy, and spectral relative entropy

Z. Cao, N. A. Schmid, K. Bandura, D. R. Lorimer, et al.

RAS Techniques and Instruments · RASTI 3, 535 · 2024

K. Bandura
- DOI
Selected work
TONE: A CHIME/FRB Outrigger Pathfinder for Localizations of Fast Radio Bursts using Very Long Baseline Interferometry

P. Sanghavi, C. Leung, K. Bandura, et al.

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · JAI 13, 2450010 · 2024

K. BanduraP. SanghaviK. Khairy
- DOI
- arXiv
Updating the First CHIME/FRB Catalog of Fast Radio Bursts with Baseband Data

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 969, 145 · 2024

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

2023 3

Selected work
A Digital Calibration Source for 21 cm Cosmology Telescopes

K. Bhopi, W. Tyndall, P. Sanghavi, K. Bandura, L. Newburgh, J. Gallicchio

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · JAI 12, 2250016 · 2023

K. BanduraP. SanghaviK. Bhopi
- DOI
- arXiv
CHIME/FRB Discovery of 25 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 947, 83 · 2023

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Detection of Cosmological 21 cm Emission with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 947, 16 · 2023

K. BanduraJ. Kania
- DOI
- arXiv

2022 9

A Clock Stabilization System for CHIME/FRB Outriggers

J. Mena-Parra et al. (CHIME/FRB Collaboration), incl. K. Bandura

The Astronomical Journal · AJ 163, 48 · 2022

K. Bandura
- DOI
A Sudden Period of High Activity from Repeating Fast Radio Burst 20201124A

A. E. Lanman, B. C. Andersen, P. Chawla, et al., incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 927, 59 · 2022

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
An Overview of CHIME, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · ApJS 261, 29 · 2022

K. BanduraJ. Kania
- DOI
- arXiv
Constraining primordial black holes using fast radio burst gravitational-lens interferometry with CHIME/FRB

C. Leung, Z. Kader, K. W. Masui, et al., incl. K. Bandura

Physical Review D · PRD 106, 043017 · 2022

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
High-time resolution search for compact objects using fast radio burst gravitational lens interferometry with CHIME/FRB

Z. Kader, C. Leung, M. Dobbs, et al., incl. K. Bandura

Physical Review D · PRD 106, 043016 · 2022

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
Hydrogen Intensity and Real-Time Analysis Experiment: 256-element array status and overview

D. Crichton et al., incl. K. Bandura

Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems · JATIS 8, 011019 · 2022

K. BanduraP. SanghaviJ. Kania
- DOI
- arXiv
Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope

T. Cassanelli, C. Leung, M. Rahman, et al., incl. K. Bandura

The Astronomical Journal · AJ 163, 65 · 2022

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
Modeling Fast Radio Burst Dispersion and Scattering Properties in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog

P. Chawla, V. M. Kaspi, S. M. Ransom, et al.

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 927, 35 · 2022

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
Using the Sun to Measure the Primary Beam Response of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

CHIME Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 932, 100 · 2022

K. BanduraJ. Kania
- DOI
- arXiv

2021 8

A Local Universe Host for the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 20181030A

M. Bhardwaj, A. Yu. Kirichenko, D. Michilli, et al.

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · ApJL 919, L24 · 2021

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
A Synoptic VLBI Technique for Localizing Nonrepeating Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME/FRB

C. Leung, J. Mena-Parra, K. Masui, et al.

The Astronomical Journal · AJ 161, 81 · 2021

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
An Analysis Pipeline for CHIME/FRB Full-array Baseband Data

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 910, 147 · 2021

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
CHIME/FRB Catalog 1 Results: Statistical Cross-correlations with Large-scale Structure

M. Rafiei-Ravandi, K. M. Smith, D. Li, et al., incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 922, 42 · 2021

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog

Z. Pleunis, D. C. Good, V. M. Kaspi, et al., incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 923, 1 · 2021

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
No Evidence for Galactic Latitude Dependence of the Fast Radio Burst Sky Distribution

A. Josephy, P. Chawla, A. P. Curtin, et al.

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 923, 2 · 2021

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview

CHIME/Pulsar Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · ApJS 255, 5 · 2021

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · ApJS 257, 59 · 2021

K. BanduraP. SanghaviJ. Kania
- DOI
- arXiv

2020 7

A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

Nature · 587, 54 · 2020

K. BanduraP. SanghaviJ. Kania
- DOI
- arXiv
A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

Nature · 577, 190 · 2020

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Detection of Repeating FRB 180916.J0158+65 Down to Frequencies of 300 MHz

P. Chawla, B. C. Andersen, M. Bhardwaj, et al., incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · ApJL 896, L41 · 2020

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
- arXiv
Nine New Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources from CHIME/FRB

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · ApJL 891, L6 · 2020

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

Nature · 582, 351 · 2020

K. BanduraP. SanghaviJ. Kania
- DOI
- arXiv
Simultaneous X-Ray and Radio Observations of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 180916.J0158+65

P. Scholz et al. (CHIME/FRB Collaboration), incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 901, 165 · 2020

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Your: Your Unified Reader

K. Aggarwal, D. Agarwal, J. W. Kania, W. Fiore, et al.

Journal of Open Source Software · JOSS 5(55), 2750 · 2020

J. Kania
- DOI

2019 4

Nature coverCover story, Nature, 14 February 2019 — "Space and CHIME"
Observations of fast radio bursts at frequencies down to 400 megahertz

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

Nature · 566, 230 · 2019

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
CHIME/FRB Detection of the Original Repeating Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 121102

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · ApJL 882, L18 · 2019

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
CHIME/FRB Discovery of Eight New Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · ApJL 885, L24 · 2019

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Nature coverCover story, Nature, 14 February 2019 — "Space and CHIME"
A Second Source of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

Nature · 566, 235 · 2019

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

2018 2

Quantization Bias for Digital Correlators

J. Mena-Parra, K. Bandura, M. A. Dobbs, et al.

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · JAI 7, 1850008 · 2018

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
The CHIME Fast Radio Burst Project: System Overview

CHIME/FRB Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 863, 48 · 2018

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

2017 3

Selected work
A search for host galaxies of potentially extragalactic rotating radio transients

A. Rane, A. Loeb

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters · MNRAS 467, L11 · 2017

A. Rane
- DOI
- arXiv
Selected work
Fast Radio Bursts

A. Rane, D. Lorimer

Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy · JApA 38, 55 · 2017

A. Rane
- DOI
Limits on the ultra-bright Fast Radio Burst population from the CHIME Pathfinder

CHIME Scientific Collaboration, incl. K. Bandura

The Astrophysical Journal · ApJ 844, 161 · 2017

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

2016 2

A search for highly dispersed fast radio bursts in three Parkes multibeam surveys

F. Crawford, A. Rane, L. Tran, K. Rolph, D. R. Lorimer, J. P. Ridley

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · MNRAS 460, 3370 · 2016

A. Rane
- DOI
- arXiv
Selected work
A search for rotating radio transients and fast radio bursts in the Parkes high-latitude pulsar survey

A. Rane, D. R. Lorimer, S. D. Bates, N. McMann, M. A. McLaughlin, K. Rajwade

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · MNRAS 455, 2207 · 2016

A. Rane
- DOI
- arXiv

2014 1

PsrPopPy: an open-source package for pulsar population simulations

S. D. Bates, D. R. Lorimer, A. Rane, J. Swiggum

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · MNRAS 439, 2893 · 2014

A. Rane
- DOI
- arXiv

Conference

Proceedings

Instrument and system papers presented at SPIE, IEEE and URSI meetings — where most telescope-building work gets published first.

2022 2

Antenna characterization for the HIRAX experiment

E. R. Kuhn et al., incl. K. Bandura

Proc. SPIE 12182, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX · Proc. SPIE 12182, 1218225 · 2022

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Characterization of the John A. Galt telescope for radio holography with CHIME

A. Reda, T. Pinsonneault-Marotte, M. Deng, et al., incl. K. Bandura

Proc. SPIE 12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI · Proc. SPIE 12190, 121902V · 2022

K. BanduraJ. Kania
- DOI
- arXiv

2020 2

Mechanical and optical design of the HIRAX radio telescope

B. R. B. Saliwanchik et al., incl. K. Bandura

Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII · Proc. SPIE 11445, 114455O · 2020

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Noise temperature testing for the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX)

E. R. Kuhn et al., incl. K. Bandura

Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII · Proc. SPIE 11445, 114452Z · 2020

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

2019 1

Selected work
Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy: An Interdisciplinary Experience

P. Sanghavi, K. Bandura, J. Makous, H. Chun

2019 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) · pp. 362-366 · 2019

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI

2018 1

Open Source Radio Telescopes

E. White, R. Prestage, E. Smith, P. Sanghavi

Proceedings of the GNU Radio Conference · Vol. 3, No. 1 · 2018

P. Sanghavi

2017 1

CHIME FRB: An application of FFT beamforming for a radio telescope

C. Ng et al., incl. K. Bandura

2017 XXXIInd URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) · 2017

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

2016 2

HIRAX: a probe of dark energy and radio transients

L. B. Newburgh, K. Bandura, et al.

Proc. SPIE 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI · Proc. SPIE 9906, 99065X · 2016

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv
Holographic beam mapping of the CHIME pathfinder array

P. Berger, L. B. Newburgh, et al., incl. K. Bandura

Proc. SPIE 9906, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI · Proc. SPIE 9906, 99060D · 2016

K. Bandura
- DOI
- arXiv

Not yet refereed

Notes & preprints

Research notes are editorially reviewed rather than peer reviewed; preprints have not been through review at all yet.

Discovery of Microsecond Duration Radio Flashes with Small Radio Telescopes

G. Langston, K. Bandura, P. Sanghavi

Research Notes of the AAS · RNAAS 10, 7 · 2026

K. BanduraP. Sanghavi
- DOI
Selected work
PEACC - Precision Emitter for 21 cm Array Coherent Calibration

K. Bhopi, M. Cole, M. Helfenbein, W. Tyndall, A. Whitmer, K. Bandura, L. Newburgh

arXiv preprint · 2026 Preprint

K. BanduraK. Bhopi
- arXiv
Constraints on the Intergalactic and Local Dispersion Measure of Fast Radio Bursts with the CHIME/FRB far side-lobe events

H.-H. Lin, P. Scholz, C. Ng, et al.

arXiv preprint · 2023 Preprint

J. KaniaK. Khairy
- arXiv

Graduate work

Dissertations & theses

Every degree completed in the lab is listed with its author on the people page, with a link to the full text in the WVU Research Repository.

See the alumni

Papers

Journal articles

2026 2

2025 9

2024 7

2023 3

2022 9

2021 8

2020 7

2019 4

2018 2

2017 3

2016 2

2014 1

Proceedings

2022 2

2020 2

2019 1

2018 1

Open Source Radio Telescopes

2017 1

2016 2

Notes & preprints

Dissertations & theses