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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio signals occurring at cosmological distances. However the physical model of FRBs is mystery, many models have been proposed. Here we study the frequency distributions of peak flux,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 F. Y. Wang , H. Yu

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been found in great numbers, but the physical mechanism of these sources is still a mystery. The redshift evolutions of the FRB energy distribution function and the volumetric rate shed light on the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Jia-Ming Zou , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

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…

In this paper, we investigate the FRB population using the first CHIME/FRB catalog. We first reconstruct the extragalactic dispersion measure -- redshift relation ($\mathrm{DM_E} - z$ relation) from well-localized FRBs, then use it to infer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-20 Hai-Nan Lin , Rui Zou

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses occurring at cosmological distances with a mysterious origin. Observations show that at least some FRBs are produced by magnetars. All magnetar-powered FRB models require some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Q. Wu , F. Y. Wang , Z. Y. Zhao , P. Wang , H. Xu , Y. K. Zhang , D. J. Zhou , J. R. Niu , W. Y. Wang , S. X. Yi , Z. Q. Hua , S. B. Zhang , J. L. Han , W. W. Zhu , K. J. Lee , D. Li , X. F. Wu , Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic, short, bright transients that occur frequently over the entire radio sky. The observational challenges following from their fleeting, generally one-off nature have prevented identification of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 D. W. Gardenier , J. van Leeuwen

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious radio bursts with a time scale of approximately milliseconds. Two populations of FRB, namely repeating and non-repeating FRBs, are observationally identified. However, the differences between these…

Repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) present excellent opportunities to identify FRB progenitors and host environments, as well as decipher the underlying emission mechanism. Detailed studies of repeating FRBs might also hold clues to the…

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

Magnetars are the most promising progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Strong radio waves propagating through the magnetar wind are subject to non-linear effects, including modulation/filamentation instabilities. We derive the dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Emanuele Sobacchi , Yuri Lyubarsky , Andrei Beloborodov , Lorenzo Sironi

We propose a new model for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) based on a sudden discharge of a charged young magnetar, caused by the short falling timescale of oppositely charged particles onto the magnetar. In this scenario, curvature radiation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Marcio G. B. de Avellar , Pedro P. B. Beaklini , Sílvia P. Nunes , Pedro H. R. S. Moraes , Manuel Malheiro

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

Fast radio burst (FRB) science primarily revolves around two facets: the origin of these bursts and their use in cosmological studies. This work follows from previous redshift-dispersion measure ($z$-DM) analyses in which we model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jordan Hoffmann , Clancy W. James , Marcin Glowacki , Jason X. Prochaska , Alexa C. Gordon , Adam T. Deller , Ryan M. Shannon , Stuart D. Ryder

The non-detection of periodicity related to rotation challenges magnetar models for fast radio bursts (FRBs) with FRB emission from close to the magnetar surface. Moreover, a bimodal distribution of the burst waiting times is widely…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous, millisecond-duration transients that offer great potential for probing the universe, yet their physical origins remain unclear. The dispersion measure (DM) and scattering time ($\tau$) distributions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

In spite of significant progress in the research of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in recent decade, their origin is still under extensive debate. Investigation on the population of FRBs can provide new insight into this interesting problem. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin-Yi Li , Rui Zou

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are milliseconds radio transients with large dispersion measures (DMs). An outstanding question is the relation between repeating FRBs and those with a single burst. In this paper, we study the energy distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 F. Y. Wang , G. Q. Zhang

The statistical analysis of fast radio burst (FRB) samples from repeaters may suffer from a band-limited selection effect, which can bias the observed distribution. We investigated the impact of this selection bias on the energy function…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 Xiaohui Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Weicong Jing , Xuelei Chen , Jinlin Han

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