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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…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) represent one of the most exciting astrophysical discoveries of the recent past. The study of their low-frequency emission, which was only effectively picked up about ten years after their discovery, has helped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-10 Maura Pilia

The discovery of radio pulsars over a half century ago was a seminal moment in astronomy. It demonstrated the existence of neutron stars, gave a powerful observational tool to study them, and has allowed us to probe strong gravity, dense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 E. Petroff , J. W. T. Hessels , D. R. Lorimer

The recent development of sensitive, high time resolution instruments at radio telescopes has enabled the discovery of millisecond duration fast radio bursts (FRBs). The FRB class encompasses a number of single pulses, many unique in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-16 Manisha Caleb

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,…

Nearly 700 fast radio burst (FRB) sources have been detected till now, among which 29 FRBs are found to burst out repeatedly. Although a firm connection between at least some FRBs and magnetars has been established, the trigger mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Chen-Ran Hu , Yong-Feng Huang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are commonly classified into repeating and apparently nonrepeating sources, yet whether this distinction reflects intrinsically different physical populations remains uncertain. Using the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-16 Wan-Peng Sun , Yin-Long Cao , Yong-Kun Zhang , Ji-Guo Zhang , Xiaohui Liu , Yichao Li , Fu-Wen Zhang , Wan-Ting Hou , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin 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

FRB 20220912A is a repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) that was discovered in Fall 2022 and remained highly active for several months. We report the detection of 35 FRBs from 541 hours of follow-up observations of this source using the…

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

The puzzling mechanism of coherent radio emission remains unknown, but fortunately, repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide a precious opportunity, with extremely bright subpulses created in a clear and vacuum-like pulsar magnetosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Renxin Xu , Weiyang Wang

Since the discovery of the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and their confirmation as an abundant extragalactic population in 2013, the study of these sources has expanded at an incredible rate. In our 2019 review on the subject we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 E. Petroff , J. W. T. Hessels , D. R. Lorimer

In this paper we identify some sub-optimal performance in algorithms that search for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which can reduce the cosmological volume probed by over 20%, and result in missed discoveries and incorrect flux density and sky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 E. F. Keane , E. Petroff

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

In 2007, a very bright radio pulse was identified in the archival data of the Parkes Telescope in Australia, marking the beginning of a new research branch in astrophysics. In 2013, this kind of millisecond bursts with extremely high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-08 Di Xiao , Fayin Wang , Zigao Dai

Popular Fast Radio Burst models involve rotating magnetized neutron stars, yet no rotational periodicities have been found. Small datasets exclude exact periodicity in FRB 121102. Recent observations of over 1500 bursts from each of FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 J. I. Katz

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio pulses. Their origin is still unknown in the field of astronomy. A notable distinction among FRBs is that some sources repeat, while others appear to be non-repeating events.…

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 brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes. Their physical origin remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Some FRB sources exhibit repeat bursts. Though over a hundred FRB sources…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, coherent, short-duration radio transients of as-yet unknown extragalactic origin. FRBs exhibit a wide variety of spectral, temporal and polarimetric properties, which can unveil clues into their emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 K. Nimmo , J. W. T. Hessels , A. Keimpema , A. M. Archibald , J. M. Cordes , R. Karuppusamy , F. Kirsten , D. Z. Li , B. Marcote , Z. Paragi