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The CHIME/FRB collaboration has detected several new repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources. The majority of these sources are at high declination ($>60\degree$), i.e. they are circumpolar for many European radio telescopes. We have recently started a campaign with an ad-hoc VLBI array (On, Tr, Ir, Mc, Ur, Sh, Wb) that shadows CHIME observations whenever any of the repeating FRBs pass through the field of view of CHIME. The observations are conducted semi-regularly (~8 hours per day for several days per week, on average), with CHIME providing a trigger for an event within 24 hours of an observations. 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. Estimates are that we detect one FRB per 200 hours of observing.

This data is part of the archive of VLBI data maintained by JIVE on behalf of the EVN, a network of radio telescopes located primarily in Europe and Asia, with additional antennas in South Africa. The EVN archive itself has the DOI https://doi.org/10.17616/R3Z197