Arpan Pal

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients from distant galaxies. While most FRBs are singular events, repeaters emit multiple bursts, with only two-FRB 121102 and FRB 180916B-showing periodic activity (160 and 16 days, respectively). FRB 20240209A, discovered by CHIME-FRB, is localized to the outskirts of a quiescent elliptical galaxy ($z = 0.1384$). We discovered a periodicity of $\sim 126$ days in the activity of FRB 20240209A, making it the third FRB with confirmed periodicity. We used auto-correlation and Lomb-Scargle periodogram analyses, validated with randomized control samples, to confirm the periodicity. The FRB's location in an old stellar population disfavors young progenitor models, instead pointing to scenarios involving globular clusters, late-stage magnetars, or low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). Though deep X-ray or polarimetric observations are not available, the localization of the FRB and a possible periodicity point to a binary progenitor likely involving a compact object and a stellar companion.