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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely strong radio flares lasting several milliseconds, most of which come from unidentified objects at a cosmological distance. They can be apparently repeating or not. In this paper, we analyzed 18…

Some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are thought to be caused by the mergers of binary neutron stars which may sometimes produce massive neutron star remnants capable of producing extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs). We conducted a deep…

The recently discovered fast radio bursts (FRBs), presumably of extra-galactic origin, have the potential to become a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We point out a few such potential applications. We provide expressions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Z. Zheng , E. O. Ofek , S. R. Kulkarni , J. D. Neill , M. Juric

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRB) has been extensively debated. Here we investigate FRB121102, detected at Arecibo telescope and remarkable for its unusually large spectral index. After extensive study we conclude that the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 S. R. Kulkarni , E. O. Ofek , J. D. Neill

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have excessive dispersion measures (DMs) and an all-sky distribution, which point toward an extragalactic or even a cosmological origin. We develop a method to extract the mean host galaxy DM ($\left\langle{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Yuan-Pei Yang , Rui Luo , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic, bright pulses of emission at radio frequency with milliseconds duration. Observationally, FRBs can be divided into two classes, repeating FRBs and non-repeating FRBs. At present, twenty repeating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 G. Q. Zhang , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

High time resolution radio surveys over the last few years have discovered a population of millisecond-duration transient bursts called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which remain of unknown origin. FRBs exhibit dispersion consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Caleb , C. Flynn , M. Bailes , E. D. Barr , R. W. Hunstead , E. F. Keane , V. Ravi , W. van Straten

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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic transient events with duration of order of microseconds to milliseconds and of unknown origin. They are known to lie at cosmological distances, through localisation to host galaxies. Recently,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Nayab Gohar , Chris Flynn

We present Monte-Carlo simulations of a cosmological population of repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources whose comoving density follows the cosmic star formation rate history. We assume a power-law model for the intrinsic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 M. Caleb , B. Stappers , K. Rajwade , C. Flynn

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic, extremely short-lived bursts of radio flashes. Despite extensive research, the exact cause of these outbursts remains speculative. The high luminosity, short duration, and high dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 F. Aharonian , A. Archaryya , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa. Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de. Bony. de. Lavergne , J. Borowska , F. Bradascio , R. Brose , A. Brown , F. Brun , B. Bruno , C. Burger-Scheidlin , S. Casanova , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , J. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , J. Damascene. Mbarubucyeye , J. de. Assis. Scarpin , A. Djannati-Ataï , J. Djuvsland , A. Dmytriiev , K. Egberts , S. Einecke , J. -P. Ernenwein , C. Escañuela. Nieves , M. Filipovic , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , S. Gabici , J. F. Glicenstein , J. Glombitza , G. Grolleron , B. Heß , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , Zhiqiu. Huang , A. Jaitly , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Katarzyński , D. Kerszberg , R. Khatoon , B. Khélifi , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , A. Kundu , R. G. Lang , S. Le. Stum , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , A. Luashvili , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , R. Marx , A. Mehta , M. Meyer , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , M. O. Moghadam , E. Moulin , M. de. Naurois , J. Niemiec , P. O'Brien , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de. Ona. Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , U. Pensec , S. Pita , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Ravikularaman , M. Regeard , O. Reimer , H. Ren , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , K. Sabri , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , J. Schäfer , F. Schüssler , H. M. Schutte , J. N. S. Shapopi , A. Sharma , S. Spencer , Ł. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , M. Tsirou , C. van. Eldik , M. Vecchi , C. Venter , T. Wach , S. J. Wagner , A. Wierzcholska , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , N. Żywucka

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 are bright, unresolved, non-repeating, broadband, millisecond flashes, found primarily at high Galactic latitudes, with dispersion measures much larger than expected for a Galactic source. The inferred all-sky burst rate…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), millisecond-duration radio transient events, possess the potential to serve as excellent cosmological probes. The FRB redshift distribution contains information about the FRB sources, providing key constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Hui Peng , Yu Yu

Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), still eluding a rational explanation, are astronomical radio flashes with durations of milliseconds. They are thought to be of an extragalactic origin, with luminosities orders of magnitude larger than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 George Machabeli , Andria Rogava , Beka Tevdorashvili

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

The repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 was recently localized in a dwarf galaxy at a cosmological distance. The dispersion measure (DM) derived for each burst from FRB 121102 so far has not shown significant evolution, even though an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered class of GHz-band, ms-duration, Jy-level-flux astrophysical transients, which origin is still a mystery. Exploring their gamma-ray counterpart is crucial for constraining their origin and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 G. Principe , L. Di Venere , M. Negro , N. Di Lalla , N. Omodei , R. Di Tria , M. N. Mazziotta , F. Longo