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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…

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

Popular models of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (and perhaps of all Fast Radio Bursts) involve neutron stars because of their high rotational or magnetostatic energy densities. These models take one of two forms: giant but rare pulsar-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 J. I. Katz

The connection between the radio emission from "lightnings" produced by the absorption of high-energy photons from the cosmic gamma-ray background in a neutron star magnetosphere and radio bursts from rotating radio transients (RRATs) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-02 Ya. N. Istomin , D. N. Sobyanin

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are observed to be highly polarized. Most have high linear polarization but a small fraction show significant circular polarization. We systematically investigate a variety of polarization mechanisms of FRBs within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious transient phenomena. The study of repeating FRBs may provide useful information about their nature due to their redetectability. The two most famous repeating sources are FRBs 121102 and 180916, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Abdusattar Kurban , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Bing Li , Fan Xu , Xu Wang , Xia Zhou , Ali Esamdin , Na Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic transients with typical durations of milliseconds. FRBs have been shown, however, to fluctuate on a wide range of timescales: some show sub-microsecond sub-bursts while others last up to a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 M. P. Snelders , K. Nimmo , J. W. T. Hessels , Z. Bensellam , L. P. Zwaan , P. Chawla , O. S. Ould-Boukattine , F. Kirsten , J. T. Faber , V. Gajjar

We propose a new model for the origin of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), attributing these phenomena to sudden discharges of accumulated electric charge in the accretion disk of compact objects such as black holes. Our framework demonstrates how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Parsa Kafashi , Sohrab Rahvar

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely energetic radio transients, some are generated in magnetar magnetospheres and winds. Despite a growing number of observations, their emission mechanisms remain elusive. It has recently been proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Jens F. Mahlmann , Logan Eskildsen , Arno Vanthieghem , Dawei Dai , Lorenzo Sironi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious bright millisecond-duration radio bursts at cosmological distances. While young magnetars have been put forward as the leading source candidate, recent observations suggest there may be multiple FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-02 Alexandra Moroianu , Linqing Wen , Clancy W. James , Shunke Ai , Manoj Kovalam , Fiona Panther , Bing Zhang

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs), the brightest cosmic explosion in radio bands, remains unknown. We introduce here a novel method for a comprehensive analysis of active FRBs' behaviors in the time-energy domain. Using ``Pincus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yi Feng , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Shi Dai , Ju-Mei Yao , Chao-Wei Tsai

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has remained a mystery up to now. There are two kinds of process invoking neutron stars as an origin of FRBs, namely inner-driven starquakes and outer-driven collisions with interstellar objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Yi-Nan Chen , Yong-Kun Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sufficiently energetic to be detectable from luminosity distances up to at least seven billion parsecs (redshift $z > 1$). Probing the maximum energies and luminosities of FRBs constrains their emission…

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

FRB 180916 is an important repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source. Interestingly, the activity of FRB 180916 shows a well-regulated behavior, with a period of 16.35 days. The bursts are found to occur in a duty circle of about 5 days in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Nurimangul Nurmamat , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Abdusattar Kurban , Bing Li

Fast radio bursts (FRB) are enigmatic powerful single radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds and high brightness temperatures suggesting coherent emission mechanism. For the time being a number of extragalactic FRBs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 D. Kostunin , H. Ashkar , F. Schüssler , G. Rowell

Periodicities observed in two Fast Radio Burst (FRB) sources (16 days in FRB 180916.J0158+65 and 160 days in FRB 121102) are consistent with that of tight, stellar mass binary systems. In the case of FRB 180916.J0158+65 the primary is an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 Maxim Lyutikov , Maxim Barkov , Dimitrios Giannios

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients from cosmological distances. Their isotropic energies follow a power-law distribution with a possible exponential cutoff, but their intrinsic redshift distribution, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Rachel C. Zhang , Bing Zhang , Ye Li , Duncan R. Lorimer

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense radio flashes from the sky that are characterized by millisecond durations and Jansky-level flux densities. We carried out a statistical analysis on FRBs discovered. Their mean dispersion measure, after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 LongBiao Li , YongFeng Huang , ZhiBin Zhang , Di Li , Bing Li