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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances. Only a small fraction of FRBs apparently repeat. Polarization, a fundamental property of electromagnetic signals, often carries critical information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Yi Feng , Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Shi Dai , Ju-Mei Yao

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are isolated, $\ms$ radio pulses with dispersion measure (DM) of order $10^3\DMunit$. Galactic candidates for the DM of high latitude bursts detected at $\GHz$ frequencies are easily dismissed. DM from bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Jing Luan , Peter Goldreich

We briefly review main observational properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and discuss two most popular hypothesis for the explanation of these enigmatic intense millisecond radio flashes. FRBs most probably originate on extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 S. B. Popov , K. A. Postnov , M. S. Pshirkov

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio signals that last milliseconds. They originate from cosmological distances and have relatively high dispersion measures (DMs), making them being excellent distance indicators. However, the origins of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Wenqi Ma , Zhifu Gao , Biaopeng Li , Chenhui Niu , Jumei Yao , Fayin Wang

Fast radio bursts are astronomical radio flashes of unknown physical nature with durations of milliseconds. Their dispersive arrival times suggest an extragalactic origin and imply radio luminosities orders of magnitude larger than any…

Despite many searches for periodicity in the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102, the underlying pattern of bursts does not appear to be a periodic one. We report a logarithmic repetition pattern in FRB 121102 in the sense that the rate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Elisa Tabor , Abraham Loeb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration, bright ($\sim$Jy) extragalactic bursts, whose production mechanism is still unclear. Recently, two repeating FRBs were found to have a physically associated persistent radio source of…

We used a new spectral-fitting technique to identify a subpopulation of 6 narrow-band giant pulses from the Crab pulsar out of a total of 1578. These giant pulses were detected in 77 minutes of observations with the 46-m dish at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 Parasar Thulasiram , Hsiu-Hsien Lin

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 highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts. Recent observations of a Galactic FRB suggest that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars, but the origin of cosmological FRBs is still not settled. Here…

We derive stringent constraints on the persistent source associated with FRB 121102: Size $10^{17}$ cm $<R<10^{18}$ cm, age $<300$ yr, characteristic electron energy $\varepsilon_e\sim0.3$ GeV, total energy $\sim10^{49}$ erg. The hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Eli Waxman

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond radio signals from cosmological distances. As they propagate, FRBs can interact with ambient photons and initiate a quantum cascade that can limit the electric field strength. This paper examines…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-24 Jun-Yi Shen , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a class of short-duration transients at radio wavelengths with inferred astrophysical origin. The prototypical FRB is a broadband signal that occurs over the extent of the receiver frequency range, is narrow in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Griffin Foster , Aris Karastergiou , Marisa Geyer , Mayuresh Surnis , Golnoosh Golpayegani , Kejia Lee , Duncan Lorimer , Danny C. Price , Kaustubh Rajwade

Although the physical origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains unknown, magnetars are the most likely candidates. The polarization properties of FRBs offer crucial insights into their origins and radiation mechanisms. Significant circular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Z. Y. Zhao , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, energetic, radio pulses of extragalactic origin. A dichotomy has emerged in the population: some produce repeat bursts, while the majority do not. Most repeating sources only show rare repetitions, and…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), millisecond-duration bursts prevailing in the radio sky, are the latest big puzzle in the universe and have been a subject of intense observational and theoretical investigations in recent years. The rapid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-05 Bing Zhang

The discovery of the `Lorimer Burst', a little over a decade ago, ignited renewed interest in searching for short-duration radio transients. This event is now considered to be the first established Fast Radio Burst (FRB), which is a class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 J. W. T. Hessels

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond radio pulses with extremely high bright temperature. Their physical origin is still a mystery. The discovery of FRB 20020428 supports the idea that at least a portion of FRBs is generated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 H. T. Lan , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

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