We have detected a fast radio burst (FRB) as part of the SUPERB project at the Parkes radio telescope. It was discovered on 2018-09-23-04:03:38.06 UTC in the central beam (beam 1) of the 1.4 GHz multi-beam receiver. The FRB has a dispersion measure of 548 pc cm^-3 and a refined signal-to-noise ratio of 13.

More details can be found in Astronomer’s Telegram 12060.