Statistical Association between the Candidate Repeating FRB 20200320A and a Galaxy Group

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Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that CHIME is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan people. We are grateful to the staff of the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, which is operated by the National Research Council of Canada. CHIME is funded by a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) 2012 Leading Edge Fund (Project 31170) and by contributions from the provinces of British Columbia, Québec, and Ontario. The CHIME/FRB Project is funded by a grant from the CFI 2015 Innovation Fund (Project 33213) and by contributions from the provinces of British Columbia and Québec, and by the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Additional support was provided by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), McGill University and the McGill Space Institute thanks to the Trottier Family Foundation, and the University of British Columbia. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported by the Government of Canada through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research & Innovation. The Dunlap Institute is funded through an endowment established by the David Dunlap family and the University of Toronto.

K.M.S. was supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant and a CIFAR fellowship. Z.P. is a Dunlap Fellow. M.B. is a McWilliams fellow and an IAU Gruber fellow. M.D. is supported by a CRC Chair, NSERC Discovery Grant, CIFAR, and by the FRQNT Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ). G.M.E. is supported by an NSERC Discovery grant (RGPIN-2020-0455) and by a Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute Collaborative Research Team grant. B.M.G. is supported by an NSERC Discovery grant (RGPIN-2022-03163) and by the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program. V.M.K. holds the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics & 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. C.L. is a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Einstein Fellow, supported by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant #HST-HF2-51536.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. K.W.M. holds the Adam J. Burgasser Chair in Astrophysics and is supported by NSF grants (2008031, 2018490). A.P. is funded by the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships—Doctoral program. 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. D.C.S. is supported by an NSERC Discovery grant (RGPIN-2021-03985) and by a Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) Collaborative Research Team Grant. This research was enabled in part by support provided by WestGrid (www.westgrid.ca) and Compute Canada (www.computecanada.ca). The Photometric Redshifts for the Legacy Surveys (PRLS) catalog used in this article was produced thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics via grant DE-SC0007914. This research has made use of "Aladin sky atlas" developed at CDS, Strasbourg Observatory, France. The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) and the PS1 public science archive have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.