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There is strong evidence that long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced during the collapse of a massive star. In the standard version of the Collapsar model, a broad-lined and luminous Type Ic core-collapse supernova (SN)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Watson , J. P. U. Fynbo , C. C. Thöne , J. Sollerman

We perform a comparative study between the only radio detected Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN) PTF10hgi, and the most active repeating fast radio burst FRB121102. This study has its root in the hypothesized FRB-SLSN connection that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Surajit Mondal , Apurba Bera , Poonam Chandra , Barnali Das

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are transient sources of unknown origin. Recent radio and optical observations have provided strong evidence for an extragalactic origin of the phenomenon and the precise localization of the repeating FRB 121102.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-14 Florencia L. Vieyro , Gustavo E. Romero , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Benito Marcote , María V. del Valle

One of the potential sources of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is a rotating magnetosphere of a compact object, as suggested by the similarities in the polarization properties of FRBs and radio pulsars. Attempts to measure an underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Kaustubh M. Rajwade , Aris Karastergiou

We propose a compact binary model for the fast radio burst (FRB) repeaters, where the system consists of a magnetic white dwarf (WD) and a neutron star (NS) with strong bipolar magnetic fields. When the WD fills its Roche lobe, mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Wei-Min Gu , Yi-Ze Dong , Tong Liu , Renyi Ma , Junfeng Wang

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRB) has been extensively debated. Here we investigate FRB121102, detected at Arecibo telescope and remarkable for its unusually large spectral index. After extensive study we conclude that the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 S. R. Kulkarni , E. O. Ofek , J. D. Neill

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients from distant galaxies. While most FRBs are singular events, repeaters emit multiple bursts, with only two-FRB 121102 and FRB 180916B-showing periodic activity (160 and 16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Arpan Pal

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio pulses of cosmological origin. Among the most common sources predicted to explain this phenomenon are bright pulses from a class of extremely highly magnetized neutron stars known as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-31 S. Paine , T. Hawkins , D. R. Lorimer , J. Stanley , J. Kania , F. Crawford , N. Fairfield

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brilliant short-duration flashes of radio emission originating at cosmological distances. The vast diversity in the properties of currently known FRBs, and the fleeting nature of these events make it difficult…

Radio-loud magnetars are well known for exhibiting rare and unusual radiative properties that are seldom seen in the wider pulsar population. Yet one form of emissive behavior that remains elusive among pulsars and magnetars is narrowband…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Marcus E. Lower , Paul Scholz , Fernando Camilo , David M. Palmer , John E. Reynolds , John M. Sarkissian , Lawrence J. Toomey , George Younes

It is now recognized that long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are linked to the collapse of massive stars, based on the association between (low-redshift) GRBs and (type Ic) core-collapse supernovae (SNe). The census of massive stars and…

The non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) could arise from catastrophic stellar explosions or magnetar giant flares, so relativistic blast waves might be produced in these events. Motivated by this, we here search for GeV counterparts to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Shao-Qiang Xi , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Fang-Kun Peng , Xiang-Yu Wang

The physical origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is unknown. Young magnetars born from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been suggested to be a possible central engine of FRBs. We test such a hypothesis by systematically searching for GRB-FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Xiang-Gao Wang , Long Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , Jia-Wei Luo , Bing Zhang , Da-Bin Lin , En-Wei Liang , Song-Mei Qin

The discovery of periodicity in the arrival times of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) poses a challenge to the oft-studied magnetar scenarios. However, models that postulate that FRBs result from magnetized shocks or magnetic reconnection in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-16 Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger , Paz Beniamini , Ben Margalit , Mathieu Renzo , Lorenzo Sironi , Konstantinos Kovlakas

We present Monte-Carlo simulations of a cosmological population of repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources whose comoving density follows the cosmic star formation rate history. We assume a power-law model for the intrinsic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 M. Caleb , B. Stappers , K. Rajwade , C. Flynn

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most energetic and enigmatic transients in the radio sky, with mounting evidence suggesting newborn, highly magnetized neutron stars formed in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) as their sources. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Wanqing Liu , Mohit Bhardwaj , Ben Margalit

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show a large value and complex variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs). The binary systems containing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and a neutron star (NS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Rui-Nan Li , Zhen-Yin Zhao , Zhifu Gao , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with short durations and extremely high brightness temperatures, and their physical origins are still unknown. Recently, a repeating source, FRB 20200120E, was found in a globular cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Yuan-Pei Yang

Binary neutron-star mergers have long been associated with short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This connection was confirmed with the first coincident detection of gravitational waves together with electromagnetic radiation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-11 Antonios Nathanail , Oliver Porth , Luciano Rezzolla

Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), still eluding a rational explanation, are astronomical radio flashes with durations of milliseconds. They are thought to be of an extragalactic origin, with luminosities orders of magnitude larger than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 George Machabeli , Andria Rogava , Beka Tevdorashvili