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One of the potential sources of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is a rotating magnetosphere of a compact object, as suggested by the similarities in the polarization properties of FRBs and radio pulsars. Attempts to measure an underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Kaustubh M. Rajwade , Aris Karastergiou

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration transient events that are typically observed at radio wavelengths and cosmological distances but their origin remains unclear. Furthermore, most FRB origin models are related to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-24 Yu-Hao Zhu , Chen-Hui Niu , Xiang-Han Cui , Di Li , Yi-Feng , Chao-Wei Tsai , Pei Wang , Yong-Kun Zhang , Fanyi Meng , Zheng Zheng

Currently, FRB 121102 is the only fast radio burst source that was observed to give out bursts repeatedly. It shows a high repeating rate, with more than one hundred bursts being spotted, but with no obvious periodicity in the activities.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-25 Bing Li , Long-Biao Li , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Jin-Jun Geng , Li-Ming Song , Yong-Feng Huang , Yuan-Pei Yang

We report the properties of more than 600 bursts (including cluster-bursts) detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) during an extremely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 D. J. Zhou , J. L. Han , B. Zhang , K. J. Lee , W. W. Zhu , D. Li , W. C. Jing , W. -Y. Wang , Y. K. Zhang , J. C. Jiang , J. R. Niu , R. Luo , H. Xu , C. F. Zhang , B. J. Wang , J. W. Xu , P. Wang , Z. L. Yang , Y. Feng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious extragalactic radio signals. Revealing their origin is one of the central foci in modern astronomy. Previous studies suggest that occurrence rates of non-repeating and repeating FRBs could be…

Since their serendipitous discovery, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have garnered a great deal of attention from both observers and theorists. A new class of radio telescopes with wide fields of view have enabled a rapid accumulation of FRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Noah Pearson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Joel Meyers

The discovery of radio pulsars over a half century ago was a seminal moment in astronomy. It demonstrated the existence of neutron stars, gave a powerful observational tool to study them, and has allowed us to probe strong gravity, dense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 E. Petroff , J. W. T. Hessels , D. R. Lorimer

In recent years, the CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) interferometer has revealed a large number of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), including a sizable population that demonstrates repeating behavior. This transit facility,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Kyle McGregor , Duncan R. Lorimer

According to the number of detected bursts, fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be classified into two categories, i.e., one-off FRBs and repeating ones. We make a statistical comparison of these two categories based on the first FRB catalog of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Hao-Yan Chen , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun , Tuan Yi

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic phenomena that have significant implications for understanding fundamental physics and the universe. Recent observations of FRB 121102, FRB 20220912A, and FRB 20201124A by the Five-hundred-meter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Yan-Qi Du , Ping Wang , Li-Ming Song , Shao-Lin Xiong

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely strong radio flares lasting several micro- to milliseconds and come from unidentified objects at cosmological distances, most of which are only seen once. Based on recently published data in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiang-Han Cui , Cheng-Min Zhang , Di Li , Jian-Wei Zhang , Bo Peng , Wei-Wei Zhu , Richard Strom , Shuang-Qiang Wang , Na Wang , Qing-Dong Wu , De-Hua Wang , Yi-Yan Yang

We present the discovery and subarcsecond localization of a new Fast Radio Burst with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and realfast search system. The FRB was discovered on 2019 June 14 with a dispersion measure of 959 pc/cm3. This is…

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

The fast radio burst (FRB) population is observationally divided into sources that have been observed to repeat and those that have not. There is tentative evidence that the bursts from repeating sources have different properties than the…

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 polarization of fast radio bursts (FRBs), bright astronomical transients, contains crucial information about their environments. We report polarization measurements of five repeating FRBs, the abundant signals of which enable wide-band…

Fast radio bursts (FRB) are enigmatic powerful single radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds and high brightness temperatures suggesting coherent emission mechanism. For the time being a number of extragalactic FRBs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 D. Kostunin , H. Ashkar , F. Schüssler , G. Rowell

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous millisecond-duration radio pulses with extragalactic origin, which were discovered more than a decade ago. Despite the numerous samples, the physical origin of FRBs remains poorly understood. FRBs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Z. Y. Zhao , K. Chen , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai