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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration, bright radio signals (fluence $\mathrm{0.1 - 100\,Jy\,ms}$) emitted from extragalactic sources of unknown physical origin. The recent CHIME/FRB and STARE2 detection of an extremely bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 F. Kirsten , M. Snelders , M. Jenkins , K. Nimmo , J. van den Eijnden , J. Hessels , M. Gawronski , J. Yang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond-duration radio transients of unknown origin observed at extragalactic distances. It has been long speculated that magnetars are the engine powering repeating bursts from FRB sources, but…

Magnetars are young, magnetically-powered neutron stars possessing the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extremely intense millisecond-long radio pulses of primarily extragalactic origin, and a leading…

Since their discovery in 2007, much effort has been devoted to uncovering the sources of the extragalactic, millisecond-duration fast radio bursts (FRBs). A class of neutron star known as magnetars is a leading candidate source of FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Christopher D. Bochenek , Vikram Ravi , Konstantin V. Belov , Gregg Hallinan , Jonathon Kocz , Shri R. Kulkarni , Dan L. McKenna

A luminous radio burst was recently detected in temporal coincidence with a hard X-ray flare from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 with a time and frequency structure consistent with cosmological fast radio bursts (FRB) and a fluence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Ben Margalit , Paz Beniamini , Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are cosmological sub-second bursts of coherent radio emission, whose source is still unknown. To date, the galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 is the only astrophysical object known to emit radio bursts akin to FRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Simone Dall'Osso , Riccardo La Placa , Luigi Stella , Pavel Bakala , Andrea Possenti

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond radio pulses with extremely high bright temperature. Their physical origin is still a mystery. The discovery of FRB 20020428 supports the idea that at least a portion of FRBs is generated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 H. T. Lan , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

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 (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

The discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB) in our galaxy associated with a magnetar (neutron star with strong magnetic field) has provided a critical piece of information to help us finally understand these enigmatic transients. We show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-31 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , Bing Zhang

Highly magnetized neutron stars are a source of extreme transients observed in different bands, like the fast radio burst (FRB) and associated hard X-ray burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154. The origin of such outbursts, hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-07 J. F. Mahlmann

The recent discovery of a Galactic fast radio burst (FRB) occurring simultaneously with an X-ray burst (XRB) from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 implies that at least some FRBs arise from magnetar activities. We propose that FRBs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely strong radio flares lasting several milliseconds, most of which come from unidentified objects at a cosmological distance. They can be apparently repeating or not. In this paper, we analyzed 18…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio pulses of cosmological origin. Among the most common sources predicted to explain this phenomenon are bright pulses from a class of extremely highly magnetized neutron stars known as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-31 S. Paine , T. Hawkins , D. R. Lorimer , J. Stanley , J. Kania , F. Crawford , N. Fairfield

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond radio transients observed at cosmological distances. The nature of their progenitors is still a matter of debate, although magnetars are invoked by most models. The proposed FRB-magnetar connection…

The recent discovery of a Mega-Jansky radio burst occurring simultaneously with short X-ray bursts from the Galactic magnetar (strongly magnetized neutron star (NS)) SGR 1935+2154 is a smoking gun for the hypothesis that some cosmological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Kunihito Ioka

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…

The megajansky radio burst, FRB 20200428, and other bright radio bursts detected from the Galactic source SGR J1935+2154 suggest that magnetars can make fast radio bursts (FRBs), but the emission site and mechanism of FRB-like bursts are…

Magnetars younger than one century are expected to be hyper active. Besides winds powered by rotation they generate frequent magnetic flares, which launch powerful blast waves into the wind. These internal shocks act as masers producing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrei M. Beloborodov
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