We continued the search for single pulses (SPs) in the northern part of the all-sky High Time Resolution Universe survey, whose aim is to detect pulsars and other radio transients. This search is now about 21% complete and has yielded the first discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB) with the 100,m Effelsberg Radio Telescope. FRB,20110220A was detected with an S/N-optimised dispersion measure of 501.0 and a width of 11.9 ± 3.5,ms, for a fluence of 0.6 ± 0.1,Jy,ms. We obtained the first L-band detection of the rotating radio transient (RRAT) J2028+28, from which we obtained upper limits on the source's period and burst rate, as well as an improved position. We also discovered a new RRAT, J0404+53, which had previously been reported as an isolated SP candidate. Eight new SP trains and 272 faint isolated SP candidates were detected too. We used these candidates to demonstrate that their all-sky detection rates depend on Galactic latitude and longitude. This direction dependence suggests the existence of a faint Galactic SP population.
Houben et al. (Fri,) studied this question.