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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are cosmological sub-second bursts of coherent radio emission, whose source is still unknown. To date, the galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 is the only astrophysical object known to emit radio bursts akin to FRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Simone Dall'Osso , Riccardo La Placa , Luigi Stella , Pavel Bakala , Andrea Possenti

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 transient radio sources at cosmological distances. No counterparts in other bands have been observed for { non-repeating FRBs}. Here we suggest the collapse of strange star crusts as a possible origin for FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-15 Yue Zhang , Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are newly discovered radio transient sources. Their high dispersion measures indicate an extragalactic origin. But due to the lack of observational data in other wavelengths, their progenitors still remain unclear.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-11 J. J. Geng , Y. F. Huang

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration astronomical radio pulses of unknown physical origin that appear to come from extragalactic distances. Previous follow-up observations have failed to find additional bursts at the same dispersion…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances, whose underlying engine is not identified. Among a sub-population that emit repeated radio bursts, a handful were associated with a persistent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Xian Zhang , Wenfei Yu , Zhen Yan , Yi Xing , Bing Zhang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are transient sources that emit a single radio pulse with a duration of only a few milliseconds. Since the discovery of the first FRB in 2007, tens of similar events have been detected. However, their physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-25 B. Marcote , Z. Paragi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. Their high luminosities and short durations require extreme energy densities, like those found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes. Studying…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration events detected from beyond the Milky Way. FRB emission characteristics favor highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars, as the sources, as evidenced by FRB-like bursts from a galactic…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a type of highly-polarized, millisecond-duration electromagnetic pulses in the radio band, which are mostly produced at cosmological distances. These properties provide a natural laboratory for testing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond pulses of radio emission of seemingly extragalactic origin. More than 50 FRBs have now been detected, with only one seen to repeat. Here we present a new FRB discovery, FRB 110214, which was detected…

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 highly energetic radio pulses from cosmological origins. Despite an abundance of detections, their nature remains elusive. At least a subset of FRBs is expected to repeat, as the daily FRB rate surpasses that of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Julian B. Muñoz , Vikram Ravi , Abraham Loeb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond-duration radio transients of unknown origin observed at extragalactic distances. It has been long speculated that magnetars are the engine powering repeating bursts from FRB sources, but…

Fast radio burst (FRB) is a type of extragalactic radio signal characterized by millisecond duration, extremely high brightness temperature, and large dispersion measure. It remains a mystery in the universe. Advancements in instrumentation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 Qin Wu , Fa-Yin Wang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio pulses with largely unknown origins, with a subset exhibiting repeating behavior. Magnetars highly magnetized neutron stars and a leading progenitor candidate for FRBs also produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Ellen C. C. Lin , Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomotsugu Goto , Tetsuya Hashimoto

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely energetic, millisecond-duration radio flashes that reach Earth from extragalactic distances. Broadly speaking, FRBs can be classified as repeating or (apparently) non-repeating. It is still unclear,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 F. Kirsten , O. Ould-Boukattine , W. Herrmann , M. Gawronski , J. Hessels , W. Lu , M. Snelders , P. Chawla , J. Yang , R. Blaauw , K. Nimmo , W. Puchalska , P. Wolak , R. van Ruiten

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) at cosmological distances have recently been discovered, whose duration is about milliseconds. We argue that the observed short duration is difficult to explain by giant flares of soft gamma-ray repeaters, though…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Tomonori Totani