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A fast radio blast swings a polarization angle

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NWO Veni, Dunlap, Macquarie, McKay, FRB, CHIME/FRB, Gordon, Vanier, UBC and IHS

We appreciated the help given to us by B. Marcote, R. Karuppusamy, D. Jow and S. Ocker. K.N is a fellow at MIT. The Dunlap Fellow is supported by the NWO Veni fellowship. P.B. is supported by grants from the United States-Israel BiNational Science Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel, and the Israel Science Foundation. P.K. is supported by grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation. M.W.S. acknowledges support from the Trottier Space Institute Fellowship programme. A.P.C. is a Vanier Canada graduate. The Dunlap institute is funded by an endowment established by the David Dunlap family. B.M.G. acknowledges the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through grant RGPIN-2022-03163, and of the Canada Research Chairs programme. V.M.K. holds the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology, a Distinguished James McGill Professorship, and receives support from an NSERC Discovery grant (RGPIN 228738-13), from an R. Howard Webster Foundation Fellowship from CIFAR, and from the FRQNT CRAQ. The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. is supported by the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA through the Hubble fellowship grant. K.W.M. holds the Adam J. Burgasser Chair in Astrophysics and is supported by NSF grants (2008031 and 2018490). A.P. is funded by the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral programme. A.B.P. is a Banting Fellow, a McGill Space Institute (MSI) Fellow, and a Fonds de Recherche du Quebec – Nature et Technologies (FRQNT) postdoctoral fellow. The K.S. is supported by a research fellowship. FRB research at UBC is supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant and by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. The baseband recording system on CHIME/FRB is funded in part by a CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund grant to IHS. We would like to thank the staff and directors at the participating EVN stations for allowing us to use their facilities. The European VLBI Network is a joint facility of more than one radio astronomy institute. Scientific results from data presented in this publication are derived from the following EVN project code: RN002.

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