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Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond bursts of radio radiation at frequencies of about 1 GHz, recently discovered in pulsar surveys. They have not yet been definitively identified with any other astronomical object or phenomenon. The bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-10 J. I. Katz

The energy and waiting time distributions are important properties for understanding the physical mechanism of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). Recently, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) detected the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 G. Q. Zhang , P. Wang , Q. Wu , F. Y. Wang , D. Li , Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang

There is evidence that soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) are neutron stars which experience frequent starquakes, possibly driven by an evolving, ultra-strong magnetic field. The empirical power-law distribution of SGR burst energies, analogous to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert C. Duncan

Fast radio bursts are bright, unresolved and short flashes of radio emission originating from outside the Milky Way. The origin of these mysterious outbursts is unknown, but their high luminosity and short duration has prompted much…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Ralph Bird

We present an analysis of a densely repeating sample of bursts from the first repeating fast radio burst, FRB 121102. We reanalysed the data used by Gourdji et al. (2019) and detected 93 additional bursts using our single-pulse search…

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 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 persistent radio counterpart of FRB 121102 is estimated to have $N\sim 10^{52}$ particles, energy $E_N\sim 10^{48}$ erg, and size $R\sim 10^{17}$ cm. The source can be a nebula inflated and heated by an intermittent outflow from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, luminous pulses with unknown physical origin. The repetition pattern of FRBs contains essential information about their physical nature and emission mechanisms. Using the two largest samples of FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 F. Y. Wang , Q. Wu , Z. G. Dai

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration radio transients of extra-galactic origin, whose underlying mechanisms and progenitors remain poorly understood. FRBs are broadly classified into two categories: repeating FRBs,…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic distances. Radio dispersion on each burst is imparted by intervening plasma mostly located in the intergalactic medium. We observe a…

In this paper we develop a model for fast radio bursts (FRBs) based on triggered superradiance (SR) and apply it to previously published data of FRB 110220 and FRB 121102. We show how a young pulsar located at ~100 pc or more from an SR/FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Martin Houde , Fereshteh Rajabi , B. M. Gaensler , A. Mathews , Victor Tranchant

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are fierce radio flashes from the deep sky. Abundant observations have indicated that highly magnetized neutron stars might be involved in these energetic bursts, but the underlying trigger mechanism is still…

Most Fast Radio Burst (FRB) models are built from comparatively common astronomical objects: neutron stars, black holes and supernova remnants. Yet FRB sources are rare, and most of these objects, found in the Galaxy, do not make FRB.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-20 J. I. Katz

There are by now ten published detections of fast radio bursts (FRBs), single bright GHz-band millisecond pulses of unknown origin. Proposed explanations cover a broad range from exotic processes at cosmological distances to atmospheric and…

The repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source that produced FRB 121102 was recently localized in a star forming galaxy at $z=0.193$, which is associated with an extended radio source at the burst location. One possibility is that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-04 Binbin Zhang , Bing Zhang

The localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 121102, suggests that it is associated with a persistent radio-luminous compact source in the FRB host galaxy. Using the FIRST radio catalog, I present a search for luminous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Eran O. Ofek

The localization of the repeating FRB 121102 to a low-metallicity dwarf galaxy at $z=0.193$, and its association with a quiescent radio source, suggests the possibility that FRBs originate from magnetars, formed by the unusual supernovae in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 M. Nicholl , P. K. G. Williams , E. Berger , V. A. Villar , K. D. Alexander , T. Eftekhari , B. D. Metzger

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