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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 era of fast radio bursts (FRBs) was open in 2007, when a very bright radio pulse of unknown origin was discovered occasionally in the archival data of Parkes Telescope. Over the past fifteen years, this mysterious phenomenon have caught…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Di Xiao , Fayin Wang , Zigao Dai

Fast radio bursts appear to exhibit large dispersion measures, typically exceeding any expected galactic interstellar contribution, especially along the moderate to high-galactic-latitude directions in which such events have been most often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Brian Dennison

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio bursts with unidentified extra-galactic origin. Some FRBs exhibit mild magneto-ionic environmental variations, possibly attributed to plasma turbulence or binary configuration. We…

We apply Dicke's theory of superradiance introduced in 1954 to the methanol 6.7 GHz and water 22 GHz spectral lines, often detected in molecular clouds as signposts for the early stages of the star formation process. We suggest that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-06 Fereshteh Rajabi , Martin Houde

We examine the possibility that fast radio bursts (FRBs) are emitted inside the magnetosphere of a magnetar. On its way out, the radio wave must interact with a low-density $e^\pm$ plasma in the outer magnetosphere at radii…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Andrei M. Beloborodov

The total event number of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is accumulating rapidly with the improvement of existing radio telescopes and the completion of new facilities. Especially, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Di Xiao , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extremely energetic pulses of millisecond duration and unknown origin. In order to understand the phenomenon that emits these pulses, targeted and untargeted searches have been performed for multi-wavelength…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a class of millisecond-scale, highly energetic phenomena with unknown progenitors and radiation mechanisms, require proper statistical analysis as a key method for uncovering their mysteries. In this research, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-27 Xianghan Cui , Clancy James , Di Li , Chengmin Zhang

We propose a new model of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) based on stellar mass black hole-massive star binaries. We argue that the inhomogeneity of the circumstellar materials or/and the time varying wind activities of the stellar companion will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Shu-Xu Yi , K. S. Cheng , Rui Luo

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond bursts of radio radiation whose progenitors so far remain mysterious. Nevertheless, the timescales and energetics of the events have lead to many theories associating FRBs with young neutron stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Anthony L. Piro

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic transient events with duration of order of microseconds to milliseconds and of unknown origin. They are known to lie at cosmological distances, through localisation to host galaxies. Recently,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Nayab Gohar , Chris Flynn

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, coherent, short-duration radio transients of as-yet unknown extragalactic origin. FRBs exhibit a wide variety of spectral, temporal and polarimetric properties, which can unveil clues into their emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 K. Nimmo , J. W. T. Hessels , A. Keimpema , A. M. Archibald , J. M. Cordes , R. Karuppusamy , F. Kirsten , D. Z. Li , B. Marcote , Z. Paragi

The origin and phenomenology of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) remains unknown despite more than a decade of efforts. Though several models have been proposed to explain the observed data, none is able to explain alone the variety of events so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-26 Luciano Nicastro , Cristiano Guidorzi , Eliana Palazzi , Luca Zampieri , Massimo Turatto , Angela Gardini

The production mechanism of fast radio bursts (FRBs)--mysterious, bright, millisecond-duration radio flashes from cosmological distances--remains unknown. Understanding potential correlations between burst occurrence times and various burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomonori Totani

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic radio transients with millisecond duration, whose physical origin is still unknown. Many models consider magnetars as possible FRB sources, supported by the observational association of FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Barbara Patricelli , Maria Grazia Bernardini , Matteo Ferro

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

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 radio transients of extragalactic origin lasting for about a few to several milli-seconds. We have analyzed both non-CHIME and CHIME FRB data. To circumvent the absence of measured fluence and flux density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-24 Nidhi Saini , Patrick Das Gupta