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FRB 180916.J0158+65 has been found to repeatedly emit fast radio bursts with the period in roughly 16 days. We propose that such periodicity comes from orbit-induced, spin precession of the emitter, which is possibly a neutron star.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-23 Huan Yang , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Recent observations of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) suggest that some FRBs reside in an environment consistent with that of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. The bursting rate for repeaters could be very high and the emission site is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-25 Bing Zhang

A repeating fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 20180916B (hereafter FRB 180916), was reported to have a 16.35-day period. This period might be related to a precession period. In this paper, we investigate two precession models to explain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Hao-Yan Chen , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun , Tong Liu , Tuan Yi

The repeating fast radio burst (FRB) localized to a globular cluster in M81 challenges our understanding of FRB models. In this Letter, we explore dynamical formation scenarios for objects in old globular clusters that may plausibly power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Kyle Kremer , Anthony L. Piro , Dongzi Li

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are cosmological radio transients with millisecond durations and extremely high brightness temperatures. One FRB repeater, FRB 180916.J0158+65 (FRB 180916B), was confirmed to appear 16.35-day periodic activities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-15 Xin-Ming Feng , Yuan-Pei Yang , Qiao-Chu Li

The newly discovered second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source, FRB 180814.J0422+73, was reported to exhibit a time-frequency downward drifting pattern, which is also seen in the first repeater FRB 121102. We propose a generic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Weiyang Wang , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen , Renxin Xu

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

We propose a geometrical explanation for periodically and nonperiodically repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) under neutron star (NS)-companion systems. We suggest a constant critical binary separation, $r_{\rm c}$, within which the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Shuang Du , Weihua Wang , Xuhao Wu , Renxin Xu

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) at cosmological distances have recently been discovered, whose duration is about milliseconds. We argue that the observed short duration is difficult to explain by giant flares of soft gamma-ray repeaters, though…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Tomonori Totani

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with short durations and extremely high brightness temperatures, and their physical origins are still unknown. Recently, a repeating source, FRB 20200120E, was found in a globular cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Yuan-Pei Yang

Recent observations indicate that magnetars may commonly reside in merging compact binaries and at least part of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sourced by magnetar activities. It is natural to speculate that a class of merging neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang , Kent Yagi

The discovery of periodicity in the arrival times of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) poses a challenge to the oft-studied magnetar scenarios. However, models that postulate that FRBs result from magnetized shocks or magnetic reconnection in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-16 Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger , Paz Beniamini , Ben Margalit , Mathieu Renzo , Lorenzo Sironi , Konstantinos Kovlakas

A recent discovery of the periodic activity of the repeating fast radio burst source FRB 180916.J0158+65 in the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) hints at possible origin of the FRB from a freely precessing neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-04 Denis Nikolaevich Sob'yanin

Recent observations of the periodic Fast Radio Burst source 180916.J0158+65 (FRB 180916) find small linear polarization position angle swings during and between bursts, with a burst activity window that becomes both narrower and earlier at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Dongzi Li , J. J. Zanazzi

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show complicated variations and reversals of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), indicating that the sources of these FRBs are embedded in a dynamically magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Z. Y. Zhao , G. Q. Zhang , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

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

One scenario for the generation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is magnetic reconnection in a current sheet of the magnetar wind. Compressed by a strong magnetic pulse induced by a magnetar flare, the current sheet fragments into a self-similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , A. Levinson , A. Spitkovsky , H. Hakobyan

Popular models of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (and perhaps of all Fast Radio Bursts) involve neutron stars because of their high rotational or magnetostatic energy densities. These models take one of two forms: giant but rare pulsar-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 J. I. Katz

We propose a compact binary model with an eccentric orbit to explain periodically active fast radio burst (FRB) sources, where the system consists of a neutron star (NS) with strong dipolar magnetic fields and a magnetic white dwarf (WD).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Wei-Min Gu , Tuan Yi , Tong Liu