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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio transients of unknown origin. Thus far, they have been blindly detected at millisecond timescales with dispersion measures (DMs) between 110--2600\,pc\,cm$^{-3}$. However, the observed pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Liam Connor

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain one of the most puzzling astrophysical phenomena. While most FRBs are detected only once or sporadically, we present the identification of FRB 20190520B as the first persistently active source over a…

Recent observations of a small sample of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have revealed a periodicity in their bursting activity that may be suggestive of a binary origin for the modulation. We set out to explore the scenario where a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Kaustubh Rajwade , Jakob van den Eijnden

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,…

By assuming the inverse square law of solar wind plasma density as representative of other stars, it is shown that just outside a star the {\it outward} deflection of a passing radio signal at $\nu\approx 1$~GHz (which is capable of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Richard Lieu

Over 700 bright millisecond-duration radio transients, known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), have been identified to date. Nevertheless, the origin of FRBs remains unknown. The two repeating FRBs (FRB 20121102A and FRB 20190520B) have been…

We examine how the various observable statistical properties of the FRB population relate back to their fundamental physical properties in a model independent manner. We analyse the flux density and fluence distributions of Fast Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Ron Ekers

Recent polarization measurements of fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide new insights on these enigmatic sources. We show that the nearly 100% linear polarization and small variation of the polarization position angles (PAs) of multiple bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-04 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , Ramesh Narayan

Fast Radios Bursts (FRBs) show large dispersion measures (DMs), suggesting an extragalactic location. We analyze the DMs of the 11 known FRBs in detail and identify steps as integer multiples of half the lowest DM found, 187.5cm$^{-3}$ pc,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-31 Michael Hippke , Wilfried F. Domainko , John G. Learned

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), characterized by strong bursts of radiation intensity at radio wavelengths lasting on the order of a millisecond, have yet to be firmly associated with a family, or families, of astronomical sources. It follows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Martin Houde , Abhilash Mathews , Fereshteh Rajabi

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio pulses with largely unknown origins, with a subset exhibiting repeating behavior. Magnetars highly magnetized neutron stars and a leading progenitor candidate for FRBs also produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Ellen C. C. Lin , Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomotsugu Goto , Tetsuya Hashimoto

A link between magnetars and fast radio burst (FRB) sources has finally been established. In this context, one of the open issues is whether/which sources of extra galactic FRBs exhibit X/gamma-ray outbursts and whether it is correlated…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-timescale transients of extragalactic origin. The number of detected FRBs has grown dramatically since their serendipitous discovery from archival data. Some FRBs have also been seen to repeat. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Pavan Uttarkar , Ryan M. Shannon , Marcus E. Lower , Pravir Kumar , Danny C. Price , A. T. Deller , K. Gourdji

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of mysterious origin, with growing evidence linking at least some of them to magnetars. While FRBs are primarily observed in the radio band, their potential multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Ke Bian , Can-Min Deng

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio pulses originating from cosmological distances, as indicated by their large dispersion measures. While numerous FRBs have now been localised to their host galaxies, a distinct class of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Thulo Letsele , Lebogang Mfulwane , Christo Venter , James O. Chibueze , Mechiel Christiaan Bezuidenhout

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

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains enigmatic. Highly energetic radio pulses of millisecond duration, FRBs are observed with dispersion measures consistent with an extragalactic source. A variety of models have been proposed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-08 Thomas Callister , Jonah Kanner , Alan Weinstein

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio flashes of extragalactic origin, with magnetars implicated as viable central engines. Yet their triggering and radiation mechanisms remain unknown. Radio telescopes inevitably record…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Chen-Ran Hu , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Chen Deng , Ze-Cheng Zou , Xiao-Fei Dong , Yi-Dan Wang , Pei Wang , Fan Xu , Lang Cui , Song-Bo Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu