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The recent detection of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) from a Galactic magnetar secured the fact that neutron stars (NSs) with super-strong magnetic fields are capable of producing these extremely bright coherent radio bursts. One of the leading…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Shotaro Yamasaki , Kazim Yavuz Eksi , Ersin Gogus

Magnetars are highly-magnetised rotating neutron stars that are predominantly observed as high-energy sources. Six of this class of neutron star are known to also emit radio emission, and magnetars are, thus, a favoured model for the origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-27 Michael Kramer , Kuo Liu , Gregory Desvignes , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Ben W. Stappers

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 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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense pulses with unknown origins. A subclass of repeating FRBs show some common features, such as associated compact persistent radio sources (PRSs), high burst rates, and large host-galaxy dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 F. Y. Wang , H. T. Lan , Z. Y. Zhao , Q. Wu , Y. Feng , S. X. Yi , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

We use the observed properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and a number of general physical considerations to provide a broad-brush model for the physical properties of FRB sources and the radiation mechanism. We show that the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Pawan Kumar , Wenbin Lu , Mukul Bhattacharya

The recurrent fast radio burst FRB 180916 was recently shown to exhibit a 16 day period (with possible aliasing) in its bursting activity. Given magnetars as widely considered FRB sources, this period has been attributed to precession of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Paz Beniamini , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Brian D. Metzger

Observation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are rising very quickly with the advent of specialised instruments and surveys, and it has recently been shown that some of them repeat quasi-periodically. In particular, evidence of a $P=16.35$ day…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-23 Guillaume Voisin , Fabrice Mottez , Philippe Zarka

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients. They apparently fall into repeaters and non-repeaters. However, such a classification has lacked a motivation on the physical picture. Here we propose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Ze-Nan Liu , Zhao-Yang Xia , Shu-Qing Zhong , Fa-Yin Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

Accretion of mass onto a white dwarf (WD) in a binary system can lead to stellar explosions. If a WD accretes from stellar wind of a distant evolved giant in a symbiotic binary, it can undergo occasional outbursts in which it brightens by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Augustin Skopal

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains mysterious. Recently, the only repeating FRB source, FRB 121102, was reported to possess an extremely large and variable rotation measure (RM). The inferred magnetic field strength in the burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Bing Zhang

Magnetars are believed as neutron stars (NSs) with strong magnetic fields. X-ray flares and fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been observed from the magnetar (soft gamma-ray repeater, SGR J1935+2154). We propose that the phase transition of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Jun-Yi Shen , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Shu-Hua Yang , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Kai Wang

The origin and phenomenology of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) remains unknown despite more than a decade of efforts. Though several models have been proposed to explain the observed data, none is able to explain alone the variety of events so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-26 Luciano Nicastro , Cristiano Guidorzi , Eliana Palazzi , Luca Zampieri , Massimo Turatto , Angela Gardini

The existence of fast radio bursts (FRBs), a new type of extragalatic transients, has been established recently and quite a few models have been proposed. In this work we discuss the possible connection between the FRB sources and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Xiang Li , Bei Zhou , Hao-Ning He , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

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

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

Very recently Spitler et al. (2016) and Scholz et al. (2016) reported their detections of sixteen additional bright bursts from the direction of the fast radio burst (FRB) 121102. This repeating FRB is inconsistent with all the catastrophic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Z. G. Dai , J. S. Wang , X. F. Wu , Y. F. Huang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are newly discovered radio transient sources. Their high dispersion measures indicate an extragalactic origin. But due to the lack of observational data in other wavelengths, their progenitors still remain unclear.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-11 J. J. Geng , Y. F. Huang

Young neutron stars (NSs) born in core-collapse explosions are promising candidates for the central engines of fast radio bursts (FRBs), since the first localized repeating burst FRB 121102 happens in a star forming dwarf galaxy, which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 F. Y. Wang , Y. Y. Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Y. W. Yu , Z. Y. Zuo , Z. G. Dai