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The first repeating fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 121102, was found to be associated with a spatially coincident, persistent nonthermal radio source, but the origin of the persistent emission remains unknown. In this paper, we propose that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Qiao-Chu Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

CHIME has now detected 18 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). We explore what can be learned about the energy distribution and activity level of the repeaters by fitting realistic FRB population models to the data. For a power-law energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Wenbin Lu , Anthony L. Piro , Eli Waxman

The spectra of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode valuable information about the source's local environment, underlying emission mechanism(s), and the intervening media along the line of sight. We present results from a long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Aaron B. Pearlman , Walid A. Majid , Thomas A. Prince , Kenzie Nimmo , Jason W. T. Hessels , Charles J. Naudet , Jonathon Kocz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond-duration radio transients of extragalactic origin. Some of them repeat, while others apparently do not. Investigations of periodic activity in repeating FRB have been conducted to probe…

As the sample size of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) has grown, an increasing diversity of phenomenology has emerged. Through long-term multi-epoch studies of repeating FRBs, it is possible to assess which phenomena are common to the…

We report on the discovery of eight repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources found using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. These sources span a dispersion measure (DM) range of 103.5 to 1281 pc cm$^{-3}$.…

In this work, we present follow-up observations of two known repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) and seven non-repeating FRBs with complex morphology discovered with CHIME/FRB. These observations were conducted with the Arecibo Observatory…

Recent multi-telescope observations of the repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102 reveal a Gaussian-like spectral profile and associate the event with a dwarf metal-poor galaxy at a cosmological redshift of 0.19. Assuming that this event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the first cosmological radio sources that vary on millisecond timescales, which makes them a unique probe of the Universe. Many proposed applications of FRBs require associated redshifts. These can only be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Joscha N. Jahns , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker , Carlton M. Baugh

The spectra of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) are complex and time-variable, sometimes peaking within the observing band and showing a fractional emission bandwidth of about 10-30%. These spectral features may provide insight into the…

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

We present a catalog of 536 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) Project between 400 and 800 MHz from 2018 July 25 to 2019 July 1, including 62 bursts from 18…

The redshift distribution of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is not well constrained. The association of the Galactic FRB 200428 with the young magnetar SGR 1935+2154 raises the working hypothesis that FRB sources track the star formation history…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-20 Rachel C. Zhang , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are energetic, short-duration radio pulses of unclear origin. To explore effective survey strategies for detecting FRBs from nearby globular clusters (GCs), we investigate the burst energy distribution, which has a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 S. B. Zhang , G. Hobbs , S. Johnston , S. Dai , Y. Li , J. S. Wang , X. Yang , X. F. Wu , L. Staveley-Smith

Recent observations of fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate a perplexing, inconsistent picture. We propose a unified scenario to interpret diverse FRBs observed. A regular pulsar, otherwise unnoticeable at a cosmological distance, may produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients of unknown origin. Rotation measures (RMs) probe their local magneto-ionic environments and provide important clues to their nature. While RM variability has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Ye Li

The polarization of fast radio bursts (FRBs), bright astronomical transients, contains crucial information about their environments. We report polarization measurements of five repeating FRBs, the abundant signals of which enable wide-band…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for $\sim $ few milli-seconds and, hence, are likely to arise from the gravitational collapse of supra-massive, spinning neutron stars after they lose the centrifugal support (Falcke \& Rezzolla 2014). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Patrick Das Gupta , Nidhi Saini

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient radio events with millisecond-scale durations, and debated origins. Collisions between planetesimals and neutron stars have been proposed as a mechanism to produce FRBs; the planetesimal strength, size…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-15 Dang Pham , Matthew J. Hopkins , Chris Lintott , Michele T. Bannister , Hanno Rein

Fast Radio Burst (FRB) is an extremely energetic cosmic phenomenon of short duration. Discovered only recently and with its origin still unknown, FRBs have already started to play a significant role in studying the distribution and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Xuerong Guo , Han Wang , Yifan Xiao , Huaxi Chen , Yinan Ke , ChenChen Miao , Pei Wang , Di Li , Chenwu Jin , Ling He , Yi Feng , Yongkun Zhang , Jiaying Xu , Guangyong Chen