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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio flashes of extragalactic origin, with magnetars implicated as viable central engines. Yet their triggering and radiation mechanisms remain unknown. Radio telescopes inevitably record…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Chen-Ran Hu , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Chen Deng , Ze-Cheng Zou , Xiao-Fei Dong , Yi-Dan Wang , Pei Wang , Fan Xu , Lang Cui , Song-Bo Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) with unknown origin emit a huge luminosity (about 1 Jy at 1 GHz) with a duration of milliseconds or less at extragalactic distances estimated from their large dispersion measure (DM). We propose herein a scenario…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-19 Xiang Liu

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic millisecond-duration radio transients whose nature remains unknown. The advent of numerous facilities conducting dedicated FRB searches has dramatically revolutionised the field: hundreds of new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Inés Pastor-Marazuela

We show that old isolated neutron stars in groups and clusters of galaxies experiencing a Quark-Nova phase (QN: an explosive transition to a quark star) may be the source of FRBs. Each of the millions of fragments of the ultra-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 Rachid Ouyed , Denis Leahy , Nico Koning

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) probe baryons permeating the cosmic web through their dispersion measures (DMs), which encode the integrated electron density along cosmological sightlines. Using 3,455 unique FRB sources from CHIME/FRB with $\sim…

Since their serendipitous discovery, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have garnered a great deal of attention from both observers and theorists. A new class of radio telescopes with wide fields of view have enabled a rapid accumulation of FRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Noah Pearson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Joel Meyers

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient radio signals with millisecond-duration, large dispersion measure (DM) and extremely high brightness temperature. Among them, FRB 20180916B has been found to have a 16-day periodically modulated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-15 Hao-Tian Lan , Zhen-Yin Zhao , Yu-Jia Wei , F. Y. Wang

It is proposed that sources of repeating fast radio bursts with detected periodicity are magnetars with extremely short initial spin periods at the protoneutron star stage, formed in binaries after tidal synchronization of their progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 S. B. Popov

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense pulses with unknown origins. A subclass of repeating FRBs show some common features, such as associated compact persistent radio sources (PRSs), high burst rates, and large host-galaxy dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 F. Y. Wang , H. T. Lan , Z. Y. Zhao , Q. Wu , Y. Feng , S. X. Yi , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense, millisecond-duration radio transients that have recently been proposed to arise from coherent radiation mechanisms within the magnetosphere of neutron stars. Observations of repeating FRBs, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Gong-Yu Yao , Can-Min Deng

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are the short, strong radio pulses lasting several milliseconds. They are subsequently identified, for the most part, as emanating from unknown objects at cosmological distances. At present, over one hundred FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-05 Xiang-Han Cui , Cheng-Min Zhang , Shuang-Qiang Wang , Jian-Wei Zhang , Di Li , Bo Peng , Wei-Wei Zhu , Na Wang , Richard Strom , Chang-Qing Ye , De-Hua Wang , Yi-Yan Yang

The pulse widths, dispersion measures and dispersion indices of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) impose coupled constraints that all models must satisfy. We show that if the dispersion measures resulted from propagation through the intergalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-07 J. I. Katz

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is currently an open question with several proposed sources and corresponding mechanisms for their production. Among them are compact binary coalescences (CBCs) that also generate gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Soummyadip Basak , Parameswaran Ajith , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

More than a decade after their discovery, astronomical Fast Radio Bursts remain enigmatic. They are known to occur at "cosmological" distances, implying large energy and radiated power, extraordinarily high brightness and coherent emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 J. I. Katz

'Downwards drifting' structures observed in fast radio bursts (FRBs) could naturally arise from a screen occurring after a small initial dispersion measure region. The screen imprints temporally sharp but broadband structure on the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-30 Artem Tuntsov , Ue-Li Pen , Mark Walker

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 a new kind of extragalactic radio transients. Some of them show repeating behaviors. Recent observations indicate that a few repeating FRBs (e.g., FRB 121102) present time--frequency downward drifting patterns…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond durations which typically occur at extragalactic distances. The association of FRB 20200428 with the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 strongly indicates that they could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 Chen Du , Yong-Feng Huang , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Alexander Rodin , Viktoriya Fedorova , Abdusattar Kurban , Di Li

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration radio transients whose physical origins remain debated. To shed light on this, we analyze the CHIME/FRB Catalog 2. By using the probability distribution of dispersion measured (DM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 X. D. Jia , D. H. Gao , J. H. Chen , Q. Wu , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang