Optimization of Radio Array Telescopes to Search for Fast RadioBursts
Abstract
We present projected Fast Radio Burst detection rates from surveys carried out using a set of hypothetical close-packed array telescopes. The cost efficiency of such a survey falls at least as fast as the inverse square of the survey frequency. There is an optimum array element effective area in the range 0 to 25 m2. If the power law index of the FRB integrated source count versus fluence α = d ~ln R/d ~ln F > -1 the most cost effective telescope layout uses individual dipole elements, which provides an all-sky field of view. If α <-1 dish arrays are more cost effective.
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