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Wide-band radio polarization observations offer the possibility to recover information about the magnetic fields in synchrotron sources, such as details of their three-dimensional configuration, that has previously been inaccessible. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Cathy Horellou , Andrew Fletcher

The rotation measure (RM) and dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) serve as critical probes of the magneto-ionic environments along the line of sight. The significant temporal evolution of RM observed in some repeating FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Qing Zhao , Di Xiao , Xue-Feng Wu

Radio relics are diffuse radio sources in galaxy clusters that are associated with merger shock waves. Detailed observations of radio relics in total intensity and in polarisation show complex structures on kiloparsec scales. The relation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-17 P. Domínguez-Fernández , M. Brüggen , F. Vazza , M. Hoeft , W. E. Banda-Barragán , K. Rajpurohit , D. Wittor , A. Mignone , D. Mukherjee , B. Vaidya

A joint action of depth and bandwidth depolarization in the interstellar medium is considered using a model of N homogeneous synchrotron layers with Faraday rotation. The bandwidth depolarization can be used in multifrequency polarimetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. N. Vinyajkin

We discuss the emission and transport of polarized radio-band synchrotron radiation near the forward shocks of young shell-type supernova remnants, for which X-ray data indicate a strong amplification of turbulent magnetic field. Modeling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Wendy Stroman , Martin Pohl

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), typically highly polarized, usually have a nearly constant polarization position angle (PA) during each burst. Some bursts show significant PA variations, and one of them was claimed to have a PA variation pattern…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain one of the most puzzling astrophysical phenomena. While most FRBs are detected only once or sporadically, we present the identification of FRB 20190520B as the first persistently active source over a…

Aims. The magnetized medium induces birefringence, splitting the light into two distinct wave modes. The differing propagation speeds of the two modes result in different trajectories. Strong gravitational lensing amplifies the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Xinzhong Er

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 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

We consider propagation of polarization in the inner parts of pair-symmetric magnetar winds, close to the light cylinder. Pair plasmas in magnetic field is birefringent, a $\propto B^2$ effect. As a result, such plasmas work as phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Maxim Lyutikov

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients with millisecond duration and extremely high brightness temperature. Very recently, some highly circularly polarized bursts were found in a repeater, FRB 20201124A. The significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

One scenario for the generation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is magnetic reconnection in a current sheet of the magnetar wind. Compressed by a strong magnetic pulse induced by a magnetar flare, the current sheet fragments into a self-similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , A. Levinson , A. Spitkovsky , H. Hakobyan

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs), which occurs on millisecond time scales in the radio band, has not been well-understood. Among their unknown observational properties are their broadband spectra and persistent and transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Shangyu Sun , Wenfei Yu , Yunwei Yu , Dongming Mao , Jie Lin

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

A primordial magnetic field in the early universe will cause Faraday rotation of the linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background generated via Compton scattering at the surface of last scattering. This rotation induces a non-zero…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Tina Kahniashvili , Yurii Maravin , Arthur Kosowsky

The repeating fast radio burst (FRB) localized to a globular cluster in M81 challenges our understanding of FRB models. In this Letter, we explore dynamical formation scenarios for objects in old globular clusters that may plausibly power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Kyle Kremer , Anthony L. Piro , Dongzi Li

We report on the polarization properties of two fast radio bursts (FRBs): 151230 and 160102 discovered in the SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts (SUPERB) at the Parkes radio telescope. FRB 151230 is observed to be 6 $\pm$ 11%…

The existence of a primordial magnetic field at the last scattering surface may induce a measurable Faraday rotation in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. We calculate the magnitude of this effect by evolving the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Abraham Loeb , Arthur Kosowsky