English
Related papers

Related papers: How Soft Gamma Repeaters May Make Fast Radio Burst…

200 papers

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond duration transients observed in the radio band, with their origin and radiation mechanism remaining unclear to date. Growing evidence indicates that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

I summarize the recent advances in our understanding of the Soft Gamma Repeaters: in particular their spin behavior, persistent emission and hyper-Eddington outbursts. The giant flares on 5 March 1979 and 27 August 1998 provide compelling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher Thompson

It was recently discovered that the time correlations of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) are similar to earthquake aftershocks. Motivated by the association between FRBs and magnetars, here we report correlation function analyses in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Yuya Tsuzuki , Tomonori Totani , Chin-Ping Hu , Teruaki Enoto

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic, bright pulses of emission at radio frequency with milliseconds duration. Observationally, FRBs can be divided into two classes, repeating FRBs and non-repeating FRBs. At present, twenty repeating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 G. Q. Zhang , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

Some of the mysterious temporal properties of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) may be explained if they are produced by dynamically triaxial magnetars. If the bursts are narrowly collimated along open field lines, then observed repeating FRB are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 J. I. Katz

The observational properties of Soft Gamma Repeaters and Ano\-malous X-ray Pulsars (SGR/AXP) indicate to necessity of the energy source different from a rotational energy of a neutron star. The model, where the source of the energy is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

The detection of a fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 200428, coincident with an X-ray burst (XRB) from the Galactic magnetar soft gamma repeater (SGR) SGR J1935+2154 suggests that magnetars can produce FRBs. Many XRBs have been detected from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-23 Connery J. Chen , Bing Zhang

In this short note I discuss the hypothesis that bursting activity of magnetars evolves in time analogously to the glitching activity of normal radio pulsars (i.e. sources are more active at smaller ages), and that the increase of the burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 S. B. Popov

Paper I in this series introduced a model in which seed radio bursts produced by a hotspot anchored in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetic neutron star (NS) are greatly amplified by strong gravitational self-lensing and thus give rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-16 Riccardo La Placa , Simone Dall'Osso , Luigi Stella , Andrea Possenti

Magnetars younger than one century are expected to be hyper active. Besides winds powered by rotation they generate frequent magnetic flares, which launch powerful blast waves into the wind. These internal shocks act as masers producing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrei M. Beloborodov

We propose a new model for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) based on a sudden discharge of a charged young magnetar, caused by the short falling timescale of oppositely charged particles onto the magnetar. In this scenario, curvature radiation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Marcio G. B. de Avellar , Pedro P. B. Beaklini , Sílvia P. Nunes , Pedro H. R. S. Moraes , Manuel Malheiro

Recently, one fast radio burst, FRB 200428, was detected from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 during one X-ray burst. This suggests that magnetars can make FRBs. On the other hand, the majority of X-ray bursts from SGR J1935+2154 are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Bing Zhang

Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) undergo changes in their pulse properties and persistent emission during episodes of intense burst activity. SGR 1900+14 has undergone large flux increases following recent burst activity. Both SGR 1900+14 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter M. Woods

The repeating fast radio burst (FRB) localized to a globular cluster in M81 challenges our understanding of FRB models. In this Letter, we explore dynamical formation scenarios for objects in old globular clusters that may plausibly power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Kyle Kremer , Anthony L. Piro , Dongzi Li

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are recently discovered mysterious single pulses of radio emission, mostly coming from cosmological distances ($\sim 1$ Gpc). Their short duration, $\sim 1$ ms, and large luminosity evidence coherent emission. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-02 Yuri Lyubarsky

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio pulses with largely unknown origins, with a subset exhibiting repeating behavior. Magnetars highly magnetized neutron stars and a leading progenitor candidate for FRBs also produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Ellen C. C. Lin , Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomotsugu Goto , Tetsuya Hashimoto

We analyze the statistics of pulse arrival times in fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 and demonstrate that they are remarkably similar to statistics of magnetar high-energy short bursts. Motivated by this correspondence, we propose that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-02 Zorawar Wadiasingh , Andrey Timokhin

In this paper we propose that a fast radio burst (FRB) could originate from the magnetic interaction between double neutron stars (NSs) during their final inspiral within the framework of a unipolar inductor model. In this model, an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Jie-Shuang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Xue-Feng Wu , Zi-Gao Dai , Fa-Yin Wang

Context: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio events of unknown extragalactic origin. Magnetars are among the main contenders. Some sources, the repeaters, produce multiple events but so far generally without the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Guillaume Voisin , Théo Francez

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are newly discovered radio transient sources. Their high dispersion measures indicate an extragalactic origin. But due to the lack of observational data in other wavelengths, their progenitors still remain unclear.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-11 J. J. Geng , Y. F. Huang