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The CHIME/FRB collaboration has published 20 repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources, and a further 17 still unpublished ones are know to our group via a MoU. The majority of the repeaters are at high declination (>60 degrees), i.e. they are circumpolar for many European radio telescopes. We are continuing our campaign with an ad-hoc VLBI array (On, Tr, Ir, Mc, Ur, Bd, Sv, Zc, Sh, Wb, Ef, Sr, eMERLIN, Gb, Ro70) that regularly (between 12 and 24 hours per week) monitors these FRBs, aiming to localise them with sub-arcsecond precision. We search the baseband data for bursts with a custom pipeline, turn around times are of order a week. Here we ask for correlation of our data in the event that we detect a burst of any of the FRBs in our VLBI recordings. Most recently, this strategy lead to the localisation of three FRBs. One of the associated publications is under review by Nature while two more are in preparation. We estimate that we can detect up to 15 FRBs over the course of one year, hence ask for 15 triggered correlator runs. |