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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic radio pulses from cosmological origins. Despite an abundance of detections, their nature remains elusive. At least a subset of FRBs is expected to repeat, as the daily FRB rate surpasses that of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Julian B. Muñoz , Vikram Ravi , Abraham Loeb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients of unknown origin, and studying their host galaxies could offer clues to constrain progenitor models. Among host properties, gas-phase metallicity is a key…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Haruka Kusakabe , Tomotsugu Goto

The luminosity function of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), defined as the event rate per unit cosmic co-moving volume per unit luminosity, may help to reveal the possible origins of FRBs and design the optimal searching strategy. With the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Rui Luo , Yunpeng Men , Kejia Lee , Weiyang Wang , D. R. Lorimer , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are an emerging class of bright, highly dispersed radio pulses. Recent work by Thornton et al. (2013) has revealed a population of FRBs in the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey at high Galactic latitudes.…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond transient radio events with a high energy. By identifying the origin of the \textbf{burst}, it is possible to measure the redshift of the host galaxy, which can be used to constrain cosmological and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Thais Lemos , Rodrigo S. Gonçalves , Joel C. Carvalho , Jailson S. Alcaniz

Given the possible repetitive nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs), their cosmological origin, and their high occurrence, detection of strongly lensed sources due to intervening galaxy lenses is possible with forthcoming radio surveys. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Liang Dai , Wenbin Lu

Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRB's) is a central unsolved problem in astrophysics that is severely hampered by their poorly determined distance scale. Determining the redshift distribution of FRB's appears to require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Kendrick M. Smith , Kiyoshi W. Masui

Several theories exist to explain the source of the bright, millisecond duration pulses known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). If the progenitors of FRBs are non-cataclysmic, such as giant pulses from pulsars, pulsar-planet binaries, or…

I discuss the possibility of differentiating between popular models for gamma-ray bursts by using multiwavelength observations to constrain the characteristics of their host galaxies, in particular the age of the stellar populations.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ranga-Ram Chary

We present GeMS/GSAOI observations of five fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies with sub-arcsecond localizations. We examine and quantify their spatial distributions and locations with respect to their host galaxy light distributions,…

We carry out a comprehensive theoretical examination of the relationship between the spatial distribution of optical transients and the properties of their progenitor stars. By constructing analytic models of star-forming galaxies and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cody Raskin , Evan Scannapieco , James Rhoads , Massimo Della Valle

We develop a sophisticated model of FRB observations, accounting for the intrinsic cosmological gas distribution and host galaxy contributions, and give the most detailed account yet of observational biases due to burst width, dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 C. W. James , J. X. Prochaska , J. -P. Macquart , F. North-Hickey , K. W. Bannister , A. Dunning

We propose a new extragalactic but non-cosmological explanation for fast radio bursts (FRBs) based on very young pulsars in supernova remnants. Within a few hundred years of a core-collapse supernova the ejecta is confined within $\sim$1…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Liam Connor , Jonathan Sievers , Ue-Li Pen

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been identified as extragalactic sources which can make a probe of turbulence in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and their host galaxies. To account for the observed millisecond pulses caused by scatter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

Diverse formation channels have been proposed to explain the emergence of fast radio bursts (FRBs), yet their origin remains elusive. With improved localization precision, roughly 90 FRBs are now associated with host galaxies. SED fitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Nick Loudas , Dongzi Li , Michael A. Strauss , Joel Leja

The impact of galaxy formation processes on the matter power spectrum is uncertain and may bias cosmological parameters inferred by large-scale structure surveys. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), through their dispersion measures (DMs) encoding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Kritti Sharma , Elisabeth Krause , Vikram Ravi , Robert Reischke , Liam Connor , Pranjal R. S. , Dhayaa Anbajagane

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow observations have allowed us to significantly constrain the engines producing these energetic explosions. Te redshift and position information provided by these afterglows have already allowed us to limit the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chris L. Fryer , Gabriel Rockefeller , Patrick A. Young

We argue that recent observations of afterglows and some theoretical considerations indicate that the gamma-ray fluence may be a better measure of strength of a burst than its peak flux. We discuss how the distribution of the fluence, or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Vahe' Petrosian , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning

The frequency of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in galaxies with distinct star formation histories can be used to constrain the lifetime of the progenitor systems. As an illustration, we consider here the constraints that can be derived from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Zheng Zheng , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio transients of extragalactic origin lasting for about a few to several milli-seconds. We have analyzed both non-CHIME and CHIME FRB data. To circumvent the absence of measured fluence and flux density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-24 Nidhi Saini , Patrick Das Gupta