A search for Fast Radio Bursts at low frequencies with Murchison
  Widefield Array high time resolution imaging
  We present the results of a pilot study search for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)
using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) at low frequencies (139 - 170 MHz).
We utilised MWA data obtained in a routine imaging mode from observations where
the primary target was a field being studied for Epoch of Reionisation
detection. We formed images with 2 second time resolution and 1.28~MHz
frequency resolution for 10.5 hours of observations, over 400 square degrees of
the sky. We de-dispersed the dynamic spectrum in each of 372,100 resolution
elements of 2$\times$2 arcmin$^{2}$, between dispersion measures of 170 and
675~pc~cm$^{-3}$. Based on the event rate calculations in Trott, Tingay & Wayth
(2013), which assumes a standard candle luminosity of $8\times10^{37}$
Js$^{-1}$, we predict that with this choice of observational parameters, the
MWA should detect ($\sim10$,$\sim2$,$\sim0$) FRBs with spectral indices
corresponding to ($-$2, $-$1, 0), based on a 7$\sigma$ detection threshold. We
find no FRB candidates above this threshold from our search, placing an event
rate limit of $<700$ above 700 Jy.ms per day per sky and providing evidence
against spectral indices $\alpha<-1.2$ ($S\propto\nu^{\alpha}$). We compare our
event rate and spectral index limits with others from the literature. We
briefly discuss these limits in light of recent suggestions that supergiant
pulses from young neutron stars could explain FRBs. We find that such
supergiant pulses would have to have much flatter spectra between 150 and 1400
MHz than have been observed from Crab giant pulses to be consistent with the
FRB spectral index limit we derive.
