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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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for $\sim $ few milli-seconds and, hence, are likely to arise from the gravitational collapse of supra-massive, spinning neutron stars after they lose the centrifugal support (Falcke \& Rezzolla 2014). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Patrick Das Gupta , Nidhi Saini

The frequency-dependent periodic active window of the fast radio burst FRB 180916.J0158+65 (FRB 180916B) was observed recently. In this Letter, we propose that a Be/X-ray binary (BeXRB) system, which is composed of a neutron star (NS) and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Qiao-Chu Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , F. Y. Wang , Kun Xu , Yong Shao , Ze-Nan Liu , Z. G. Dai

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense, millisecond-duration radio transients that have recently been proposed to arise from coherent radiation mechanisms within the magnetosphere of neutron stars. Observations of repeating FRBs, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Gong-Yu Yao , Can-Min Deng

We show that the periodic FRB 180916.J0158+65 can be interpreted by invoking an interacting neutron star binary system with an orbital period of $\sim 16$ days. The FRBs are produced by a highly magnetized pulsar, whose magnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Kunihito Ioka , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a newly discovered class of radio transients that emerge from cosmological sources and last for $\sim$ a few milliseconds. However, their origin remains a highly debated topic in astronomy. Among the plethora of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Mohit Bhardwaj , Antonella Palmese , Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Virginia D'Emilio , Soichiro Morisaki

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short, intense extragalactic radio bursts of unknown origin. Recent polarimetric studies have shown that a noticeable fraction of the repeating FRBs display irregular, short-time variations of the Faraday…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Dongzi Li , Anna Bilous , Scott Ransom , Robert Main , Yuan-Pei Yang

We propose a compact binary model for the fast radio burst (FRB) repeaters, where the system consists of a magnetic white dwarf (WD) and a neutron star (NS) with strong bipolar magnetic fields. When the WD fills its Roche lobe, mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Wei-Min Gu , Yi-Ze Dong , Tong Liu , Renyi Ma , Junfeng Wang

The first repeating fast radio burst source, FRB 121102, is observed to emit bursts periodically. We show that FRB 121102 can be interpreted as an interacting neutron star binary system with an orbital period of 159 days. We develop a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Tomoki Wada , Kunihito Ioka , Bing Zhang

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

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

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

The origin of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is an open question, with observations suggesting that at least some are associated with old stellar populations. It has been proposed that some repeating FRBs may be produced by interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 Yu-xuan Yin , En-kun Li , Bing Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

Asteroids orbiting into the highly magnetized and highly relativistic wind of a pulsar offer a favourable configuration for repeating fast radio bursts (FRB). The body in direct contact with the wind develops a trail formed of a stationary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Fabrice Mottez , Philippe Zarka , Guillaume Voisin

The periodic activity of repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 180916.J0158+65 was recently reported by the CHIME/FRB Collaboration team. 28 bursts from this source not only show a $\sim16$-day period with an active phase of $\sim 4.0$ days but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Z. G. Dai , S. Q. Zhong

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, or FRBs, are transient sources of unknown origin. Recent radio and optical observations have provided strong evidence for an extragalactic origin of the phenomenon and the precise localization of the repeating FRB 121102.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-14 Florencia L. Vieyro , Gustavo E. Romero , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Benito Marcote , María V. del Valle

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration, extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. FRB 121102, the only known repeating FRB source, has been localized to a star-forming region in a dwarf galaxy at redshift z = 0.193,…

FRB 180916 is an important repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source. Interestingly, the activity of FRB 180916 shows a well-regulated behavior, with a period of 16.35 days. The bursts are found to occur in a duty circle of about 5 days in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Nurimangul Nurmamat , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Abdusattar Kurban , Bing Li