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Thirty-three fast radio bursts (FRBs) had been detected by March 2018. Although the sample size is still limited, meaningful statistical studies can already be carried out. The normalised luminosity function places important constraints on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Rui Luo , Kejia Lee , Duncan R. Lorimer , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright milliseconds-duration radio bursts from cosmological distances. Despite intense observational and theoretical studies, their physical origin is still mysterious. One major obstacle is the lack of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-12 Yi Xing , Wenfei Yu , Zhen Yan , Xian Zhang , Bing Zhang

The detection of six Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has recently been reported. FRBs are short duration ($\sim$ 1 ms), highly dispersed radio pulses from astronomical sources. The physical interpretation for the FRBs remains unclear but is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Divya Palaniswamy , Randall B. Wayth , Cathryn M. Trott , Jamie N. McCallum , Steven J. Tingay , Cormac Reynolds

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 transients of mysterious origin, with growing evidence linking at least some of them to magnetars. While FRBs are primarily observed in the radio band, their potential multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Ke Bian , Can-Min Deng

Currently, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have become a very active field in astronomy and cosmology. However, the origin of FRBs is still unknown to date. The studies on the intrinsic FRB distributions might help us to reveal the possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-21 Da-Chun Qiang , Shu-Ling Li , Hao Wei

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic, short, bright transients that occur frequently over the entire radio sky. The observational challenges following from their fleeting, generally one-off nature have prevented identification of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 D. W. Gardenier , J. van Leeuwen

One scenario for the generation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is magnetic reconnection in a current sheet of the magnetar wind. Compressed by a strong magnetic pulse induced by a magnetar flare, the current sheet fragments into a self-similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , A. Levinson , A. Spitkovsky , H. Hakobyan

The first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to be precisely localized was associated with a luminous persistent radio source (PRS). Recently, a second FRB/PRS association was discovered for another repeating source of FRBs. However, it is not clear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 C. J. Law , L. Connor , K. Aggarwal

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration events thought to originate beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Uncertainty surrounding the burst sources, and their propagation through intervening plasma, has limited their use as cosmological…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic phenomena that have significant implications for understanding fundamental physics and the universe. Recent observations of FRB 121102, FRB 20220912A, and FRB 20201124A by the Five-hundred-meter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Yan-Qi Du , Ping Wang , Li-Ming Song , Shao-Lin Xiong

The precise origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain unknown. Multiwavelength observations of nearby FRB sources can provide important insights into the enigmatic FRB phenomenon. Here, we present results from a sensitive, broadband X-ray…

In this paper we develop a model for fast radio bursts (FRBs) based on triggered superradiance (SR) and apply it to previously published data of FRB 110220 and FRB 121102. We show how a young pulsar located at ~100 pc or more from an SR/FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Martin Houde , Fereshteh Rajabi , B. M. Gaensler , A. Mathews , Victor Tranchant

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are an emerging class of bright, highly dispersed radio pulses. Recent work by Thornton et al. (2013) has revealed a population of FRBs in the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey at high Galactic latitudes.…

We discuss the possibility of using fast radio bursts (FRBs), if cosmological, as a viable cosmic probe. We find out that the contribution of the host galaxies to the detected dispersion measures can be inapparent for the FRBs not from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 Bei Zhou , Xiang Li , Tao Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

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

In 2007 we were part of a team that discovered the so-called ``Lorimer Burst'', the first example of a new class of objects now known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). These enigmatic events are only a few ms in duration and occur at random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Duncan R. Lorimer , Maura A. McLaughlin , Matthew Bailes

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a class of highly energetic, mostly extragalactic radio transients lasting for a few milliseconds. While over 600 FRBs have been published so far, their origins are presently unclear, with some theories for…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic radio bursts that typically last for milliseconds. They are mostly of extragalactic origin, but the progenitors, trigger mechanisms and radiation processes are still largely unknown. Here we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Nurimangul Nurmamat , Yong-Feng Huang , Xiao-Fei Dong , Chen-Ran Hu , Orkash Amat , Ze-Cheng Zou , Abdusattar Kurban , Jin-Jun Geng , Chen Deng

A luminous radio burst was recently detected in temporal coincidence with a hard X-ray flare from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 with a time and frequency structure consistent with cosmological fast radio bursts (FRB) and a fluence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Ben Margalit , Paz Beniamini , Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger