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The radiation physics of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains an open question. Current observations have discovered that narrowly-banded bursts of FRB 20201124A are active in 0.4-2 GHz and their spectral peak frequency ($\nu^{\rm obs}_{p}$)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-14 Fen Lyu , En-Wei Liang , D. Li

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising tool for studying the low-density universe as their dispersion measures (DM) are extremely sensitive probes of electron column density. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) inject energy into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Adam J. Batten , Alan R. Duffy , Chris Flynn , Vivek Gupta , Emma Ryan-Weber , Nastasha Wijers

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

Some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are thought to be caused by the mergers of binary neutron stars which may sometimes produce massive neutron star remnants capable of producing extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs). We conducted a deep…

We use the observed properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and a number of general physical considerations to provide a broad-brush model for the physical properties of FRB sources and the radiation mechanism. We show that the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Pawan Kumar , Wenbin Lu , Mukul Bhattacharya

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-timescale bursts of coherent radio emission that are luminous enough to be detectable at cosmological distances. In this review I describe the discovery of FRBs, subsequent advances in our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-14 Matthew Bailes

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are energetic, short-duration radio pulses of unclear origin. To explore effective survey strategies for detecting FRBs from nearby globular clusters (GCs), we investigate the burst energy distribution, which has a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 S. B. Zhang , G. Hobbs , S. Johnston , S. Dai , Y. Li , J. S. Wang , X. Yang , X. F. Wu , L. Staveley-Smith

Since its initial discovery, the Fast radio burst (FRB) FRB 121102 has been found to be repeating with millisecond-duration pulses. Very recently, 15 new bursts were detected by the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) during its continous monitoring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Weiyang Wang , Rui Luo , Han Yue , Kejia Lee , Xuelei Chen , Renxin Xu

How the event rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) evolves with redshift is a hot topic to explore their cosmological origin and the circum-burst environment. Particularly, it is urgent to know what the difference of event rates between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Q. Pan , X. Y. Du , Z. B. Zhang , Y. F. Huang , L. B. Li , G. A. Li

CHIME has now detected 18 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). We explore what can be learned about the energy distribution and activity level of the repeaters by fitting realistic FRB population models to the data. For a power-law energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Wenbin Lu , Anthony L. Piro , Eli Waxman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely strong radio flares lasting several milliseconds, most of which come from unidentified objects at a cosmological distance. They can be apparently repeating or not. In this paper, we analyzed 18…

Repeating and apparently non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRB) differ by orders of magnitude in duty factors, energy and rotation measure. Extensive monitoring of apparently non-repeating FRB has failed to find any repetitions. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-30 J. I. Katz

Do all Fast Radio Burst (FRB) sources repeat? We present evidence that FRB sources follow a Zipf-like distribution, in which the number density of sources is approximately inversely proportional to their burst rate above a fixed energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration intense radio flares occurring at cosmological distances. Many models have been proposed to explain these topical astronomical events, but none has so far been confirmed. Here we show that a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-27 Sudip Bhattacharyya

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. Their high luminosities and short durations require extreme energy densities, like those found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes. Studying…

Fast radio bursts (FRB) can arise from synchrotron maser emission at ultra-relativistic magnetized shocks, such as produced by flare ejecta from young magnetars. We combine PIC simulation results for the synchrotron maser with the dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Brian D. Metzger , Ben Margalit , Lorenzo Sironi

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are transient sources that emit a single radio pulse with a duration of only a few milliseconds. Since the discovery of the first FRB in 2007, tens of similar events have been detected. However, their physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-25 B. Marcote , Z. Paragi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain one of the most puzzling astrophysical phenomena. While most FRBs are detected only once or sporadically, we present the identification of FRB 20190520B as the first persistently active source over a…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients. They apparently fall into repeaters and non-repeaters. However, such a classification has lacked a motivation on the physical picture. Here we propose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Ze-Nan Liu , Zhao-Yang Xia , Shu-Qing Zhong , Fa-Yin Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic distances. Radio dispersion on each burst is imparted by intervening plasma mostly located in the intergalactic medium. We observe a…