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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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising tool for studying the low-density universe as their dispersion measures (DM) are extremely sensitive probes of electron column density. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) inject energy into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Adam J. Batten , Alan R. Duffy , Chris Flynn , Vivek Gupta , Emma Ryan-Weber , Nastasha Wijers

The dispersion of fast radio bursts (FRBs) measures the column density of free electrons, tracing the diffuse ionized gas that contains more than $90\%$ of all baryons. On linear scales the FRB dispersion field is an approximately unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Shion Andrew , Haochen Wang , Kiyoshi Masui , Josh Borrow , Calvin Leung , Ryan Raikman , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , James M. Sullivan

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) and long gamma ray bursts (LGRBs) have been proposed as progenitors of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). In this scenario, bursts originate from the interaction between a young magnetar and its surrounding…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients from distant galaxies. While most FRBs are singular events, repeaters emit multiple bursts, with only two-FRB 121102 and FRB 180916B-showing periodic activity (160 and 16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Arpan Pal

We report on a search for high-energy counterparts to fast radio bursts (FRBs) with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). We find no…

The total event number of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is accumulating rapidly with the improvement of existing radio telescopes and the completion of new facilities. Especially, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Di Xiao , Zi-Gao Dai

Intense, millisecond-duration bursts of radio waves have been detected from beyond the Milky Way [1]. Their extragalactic origins are evidenced by their large dispersion measures, which are greater than expected for propagation through the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 V. Ravi , M. Catha , L. D'Addario , S. G. Djorgovski , G. Hallinan , R. Hobbs , J. Kocz , S. R. Kulkarni , J. Shi , H. K. Vedantham , S. Weinreb , D. P. Woody

Six cases of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have recently been discovered. The FRBs are bright (~0.1 - 1 Jy) and brief (~ 1 ms) pulses of radio emission with dispersion measures (DMs) that exceed Galactic values, and hence FRBs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Abraham Loeb , Yossi Shvartzvald , Dan Maoz

Scenario of formation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is proposed. Just like radio pulsars, sources of FRBs are magnetized neutron stars. Appearance of strong electric field in a magnetosphere of a neutron star is associated with close passage…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-14 Istomin Ya. N

How the event rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) evolves with redshift is a hot topic to explore their cosmological origin and the circum-burst environment. Particularly, it is urgent to know what the difference of event rates between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Q. Pan , X. Y. Du , Z. B. Zhang , Y. F. Huang , L. B. Li , G. A. Li

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, or FRBs, are transient sources of unknown origin. Recent radio and optical observations have provided strong evidence for an extragalactic origin of the phenomenon and the precise localization of the repeating FRB 121102.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-14 Florencia L. Vieyro , Gustavo E. Romero , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Benito Marcote , María V. del Valle

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is currently unknown. Repeating FRBs offer better opportunity than non-repeating FRBs since their simultaneous multi-wavelength counterparts might be identified. The magnetar flare model of FRBs is one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Shangyu Sun , Wenfei Yu , Yunwei Yu , Dongming Mao

Fast radio bursts are bright, unresolved and short flashes of radio emission originating from outside the Milky Way. The origin of these mysterious outbursts is unknown, but their high luminosity and short duration has prompted much…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Ralph Bird

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

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs), highly energetic, millisecond-duration radio pulses originating from beyond our galaxy, remains unknown. Observationally, FRBs are classified as non-repeating or repeating, however, this…

The widths, dispersion measures, dispersion indices and fluences of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) impose coupled constraints that all models must satisfy. Observation of dispersion indices close to their low density limit of $-2$ sets a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 J. I. Katz

We characterize the intrinsic properties of any FRB using its redshift $z$, spectral index $\alpha$ and energy $E_{33}$ in units of $10^{33} \, {\rm J}$ emitted across $2128 - 2848\; {\rm MHz}$ in the FRB's rest frame. Provided that $z$ is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Siddhartha Bhattacharyya , Somnath Bharadwaj , Himanshu Tiwari , Suman Majumdar