Abstract
Recent multi-telescope observations of the repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB
121102 reveal a Gaussian-like spectral profile and associate the event with a
dwarf metal-poor galaxy at a cosmological redshift of 0.19. Assuming that this
event represents the entire FRB population, we make predictions for the
expected number counts of FRBs observable by future radio telescopes between 50
MHz and 3.5 GHz. We vary our model assumptions to bracket the expected rate of
FRBs, and find that it exceeds one FRB per second per sky when accounting for
faint sources. We show that future low-frequency radio telescopes, such as the
Square Kilometer Array, could detect more than one FRB per minute over the
entire sky originating from the epoch of reionization.
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