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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are pulsed radio signals with a duration of milliseconds and a large dispersion measure (DM). Recent observations indicate that FRB 180916 and FRB 121102 show periodic activities. Some theoretical models have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-11 Y. J. Wei , Z. Y. Zhao , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio pulses from the sky with millisecond durations and Jansky-level flux densities. Their origins are still largely uncertain. Here we suggest a new model for FRBs. We argue that the collision of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Long-Biao Li , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Bing Li

Recent observations show that fast radio bursts (FRBs) are energetic but probably non-catastrophic events occurring at cosmological distances. The properties of their progenitors are largely unknown in spite of many attempts to determine…

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

It was recently discovered that the time correlations of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) are similar to earthquake aftershocks. Motivated by the association between FRBs and magnetars, here we report correlation function analyses in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Yuya Tsuzuki , Tomonori Totani , Chin-Ping Hu , Teruaki Enoto

Fast radio bursts (FRB) can arise from synchrotron maser emission at ultra-relativistic magnetized shocks, such as produced by flare ejecta from young magnetars. We combine PIC simulation results for the synchrotron maser with the dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Brian D. Metzger , Ben Margalit , Lorenzo Sironi

The properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate that the physical origin of this type of astrophysical phenomenon is related to neutron stars. The first detected repeating source, FRB 121102, is associated with a persistent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-02 Yu-Han Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond duration transients observed in the radio band, with their origin and radiation mechanism remaining unclear to date. Growing evidence indicates that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

FRB 20180916B is a repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) which produces bursts in a 5.1 day active window which repeats with a 16.34 day period. Models have been proposed to explain the periodicity using dynamical phenomena such as rotation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 S. Bethapudi , D. Z. Li , L. G. Spitler , V. R. Marthi , M. L. Bause , R. A. Main , R. S. Wharton

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new kind of extragalactic radio transients. Some of them show repeating behaviors. Recent observations indicate that a few repeating FRBs (e.g., FRB 121102) present time--frequency downward drifting patterns…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

The Galactic fast radio burst (FRB) FRB 200428 was associated with a short X-ray burst (XRB) from the magnetar SGR J1935+2154 during one of its active phases. This FRB-associated XRB exhibits distinct properties compared to other typical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Yue Wu , Yuan-Pei Yang , Fa-Yin Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

A fast radio burst (FRB) localized to a globular cluster (GC) challenges FRB models involving ordinary young magnetars. In this paper, we examine the rapid spindown millisecond neutron star (NS) scenario, which favours the dynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-13 Dongzi Li , Ue-Li Pen

Neutron stars are likely surrounded by gas, debris, and asteroid belts. Kozai-Lidov perturbations, induced by a distant, but gravitationally bound companion, can trigger the infall of such orbiting bodies onto a central compact object.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Valentin Decoene , Kumiko Kotera , Joseph Silk

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

Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely high magnetic fields that exhibit various X-ray phenomena such as sporadic sub-second bursts, long-term persistent flux enhancements, and variable rates of rotation period change. In 2020, a fast…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, short-duration radio transients with very high brightness temperatures implying highly coherent emission. We suggest that the FRBs are caused by the self-focusing of an electron beam interacting with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Mustafa Doğan , Kazım Yavuz Ekşi

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

When a fast radio burst (FRB) expands from its source through a surrounding tenuous plasma, it strongly heats and compresses the plasma at radii up to $\sim 10^{14}$cm. The likely central engines of FRBs are magnetars, and their ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients whose physical origin remains uncertain. Magnetar-based models, motivated by observed properties such as polarization and large rotation measures, suggest that FRB emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Jun-Yi Shen , Yuan-Chuan Zou
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