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We propose a compact binary model with an eccentric orbit to explain periodically active fast radio burst (FRB) sources, where the system consists of a neutron star (NS) with strong dipolar magnetic fields and a magnetic white dwarf (WD).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Wei-Min Gu , Tuan Yi , Tong Liu

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show a large value and complex variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs). The binary systems containing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and a neutron star (NS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Rui-Nan Li , Zhen-Yin Zhao , Zhifu Gao , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with short durations and extremely high brightness temperatures, and their physical origins are still unknown. Recently, a repeating source, FRB 20200120E, was found in a globular cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Yuan-Pei Yang

Neutron stars are likely surrounded by gas, debris, and asteroid belts. Kozai-Lidov perturbations, induced by a distant, but gravitationally bound companion, can trigger the infall of such orbiting bodies onto a central compact object.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Valentin Decoene , Kumiko Kotera , Joseph Silk

Young neutron stars (NSs) born in core-collapse explosions are promising candidates for the central engines of fast radio bursts (FRBs), since the first localized repeating burst FRB 121102 happens in a star forming dwarf galaxy, which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 F. Y. Wang , Y. Y. Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Y. W. Yu , Z. Y. Zuo , Z. G. Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses originating from cosmological distances. Multi-wavelength counterparts associated with FRBs are important for unveiling their physical origins. Recent observations provide strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Z. Y. Zhao , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous millisecond-duration radio pulses with extragalactic origin, which were discovered more than a decade ago. Despite the numerous samples, the physical origin of FRBs remains poorly understood. FRBs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Z. Y. Zhao , K. Chen , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic transient events with duration of order of microseconds to milliseconds and of unknown origin. They are known to lie at cosmological distances, through localisation to host galaxies. Recently,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Nayab Gohar , Chris Flynn

The discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB) in our galaxy associated with a magnetar (neutron star with strong magnetic field) has provided a critical piece of information to help us finally understand these enigmatic transients. We show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-31 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , Bing Zhang

Axions are one of the most promising candidates of dark matter. The axions have been shown to form miniclusters with masses $\sim 10^{-12}M_{\odot}$ and to become dominant component of dark matter. Some of the axion miniclusters condense to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Aiichi Iwazaki

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), characterized by strong bursts of radiation intensity at radio wavelengths lasting on the order of a millisecond, have yet to be firmly associated with a family, or families, of astronomical sources. It follows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Martin Houde , Abhilash Mathews , Fereshteh Rajabi

Fast radio burst (FRB) is a type of extragalactic radio signal characterized by millisecond duration, extremely high brightness temperature, and large dispersion measure. It remains a mystery in the universe. Advancements in instrumentation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 Qin Wu , Fa-Yin Wang

Recently born magnetars are promising candidates for the engines powering fast radio bursts (FRBs). The focus thus far has been placed on millisecond magnetars born in rare core-collapse explosions, motivated by the star forming dwarf host…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Ben Margalit , Edo Berger , Brian D. Metzger

The recently discovered fast radio bursts (FRBs), presumably of extra-galactic origin, have the potential to become a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We point out a few such potential applications. We provide expressions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Z. Zheng , E. O. Ofek , S. R. Kulkarni , J. D. Neill , M. Juric

Scenario of formation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is proposed. Just like radio pulsars, sources of FRBs are magnetized neutron stars. Appearance of strong electric field in a magnetosphere of a neutron star is associated with close passage…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-14 Istomin Ya. N

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are one of the proposed origins for both repeating and non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), which associates FRBs with gravitational waves and short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this work, we explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-18 Haoxiang Lin , Tomonori Totani

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration, bright radio signals (fluence $\mathrm{0.1 - 100\,Jy\,ms}$) emitted from extragalactic sources of unknown physical origin. The recent CHIME/FRB and STARE2 detection of an extremely bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 F. Kirsten , M. Snelders , M. Jenkins , K. Nimmo , J. van den Eijnden , J. Hessels , M. Gawronski , J. Yang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were discovered only in 2007. However, the number of known events and sources of repeating bursts grows very rapidly. In the near future the number of events will be $\gtrsim 10^4$ and the number of repeaters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-13 Popov S. B. , Pshirkov M. S.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio bursts with unidentified extra-galactic origin. Some FRBs exhibit mild magneto-ionic environmental variations, possibly attributed to plasma turbulence or binary configuration. We…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer a powerful probe of the ionized Universe through their dispersion measures (DM). While a significant fraction of the DM arises from the intergalactic medium (IGM), the contributions from the host galaxy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gunalan Muthusami , Gopal Kashyap