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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration transient signals discovered over the past decade. Here we describe the scientific usefulness of FRBs, consider ongoing work at the Parkes telescope, and examine some relevant search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 E. F. Keane , SUPERB Collaboration

This is a brief, non-exhaustive review of Fast Radio Burst (FRB), a new category of radio transients originating from extragalactic distances. We discuss the key observational properties known so far and the scientific applications of FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Cherry Ng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), millisecond-duration bursts prevailing in the radio sky, are the latest big puzzle in the universe and have been a subject of intense observational and theoretical investigations in recent years. The rapid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-05 Bing Zhang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses occurring at cosmological distances that have emerged as prominent cosmological probes due to their dispersion measure (DM) evolution with redshift. In this work, we use cosmography,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Marcelo V. dos Santos

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration signals which encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas distributions. Here we report…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are quickly becoming a subject of intense interest in time-domain astronomy. The progenitors of FRBs remain unknown but a wide variety of models exist from cataclysmic to repeating scenarios. Advances in FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-08 E. Petroff

We consider the possible observation of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) with planned future radio telescopes, and investigate how well the dispersions and redshifts of these signals might constrain cosmological parameters. We construct mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Anthony Walters , Amanda Weltman , B. M. Gaensler , Yin-Zhe Ma , Amadeus Witzemann

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration at cosmological distances. Since compact dark matter/objects (COs) could act as lenses and cause split of this kind of very short duration signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Kai Liao , S. -B. Zhang , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio bursts characterized by millisecond durations, high Galactic latitude positions, and high dispersion measures. Very recently, the cosmological origin of FRB 150418 has been confirmed by \cite{kea16}, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Xue-Feng Wu , Song-Bo Zhang , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Wei-Hua Lei , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Mészáros

In 2007 we were part of a team that discovered the so-called ``Lorimer Burst'', the first example of a new class of objects now known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). These enigmatic events are only a few ms in duration and occur at random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Duncan R. Lorimer , Maura A. McLaughlin , Matthew Bailes

It is noted that the duration of a fast radio burst (FRB), about $10^{-3}$ s, is a smaller fraction of the time delay between multiple images of a source gravitationally lensed by a galaxy or galaxy cluster than the human lifetime is to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Adi Zitrin , David Eichler

More than a decade after their discovery, astronomical Fast Radio Bursts remain enigmatic. They are known to occur at "cosmological" distances, implying large energy and radiated power, extraordinarily high brightness and coherent emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 J. I. Katz

We summarize our understanding of millisecond radio bursts from an extragalactic population of sources. FRBs occur at an extraordinary rate, thousands per day over the entire sky with radiation energy densities at the source about ten…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

If a small fraction of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), as recently suggested by Zhang, the combination of redshift measurements of GRBs and dispersion measure (DM) measurements of FRBs opens a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Wei Deng , Bing Zhang

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

Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful probes of turbulence within the intergalactic medium (IGM), a phenomenon that plays a crucial role in various cosmological and astrophysical processes. In this study, we employ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Rui-Nan Li , Zhao Joseph Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Qin Wu , F. Y. Wang

In the age of large-scale galaxy and lensing surveys, such as DESI, Euclid, Roman and Rubin, we stand poised to usher in a transformative new phase of data-driven cosmology. To fully harness the capabilities of these surveys, it is critical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Isabel Medlock , Daisuke Nagai , Daniel Anglés Alcázar , Matthew Gebhardt

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most tantalizing mysteries of the radio sky; their progenitors and origins remain unknown and until now no rapid multiwavelength follow-up of an FRB has been possible. New instrumentation has…

Understanding dark matter is one of the most urgent questions in modern physics. A very interesting candidate is primordial black holes (PBHs; Carr2016). For the mass ranges of $< 10^{-16} M_{\odot}$ and $> 100 M_{\odot}$, PBHs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Simon C. -C. Ho , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Yu-Wei Lin , Seong Jin Kim , Yuri Uno , Tiger Y. -Y. Hsiao