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Plasma lenses in the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) can strongly modulate FRB amplitudes for a wide range of distances, including the $\sim $ Gpc distance of the repeater FRB121102. To produce caustics, the lens'…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 J. M. Cordes , I. Wasserman , J. W. T. Hessels , T. J. W. Lazio , S. Chatterjee , R. S. Wharton

The localization of the repeating FRB 121102 to a low-metallicity dwarf galaxy at $z=0.193$, and its association with a quiescent radio source, suggests the possibility that FRBs originate from magnetars, formed by the unusual supernovae in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 M. Nicholl , P. K. G. Williams , E. Berger , V. A. Villar , K. D. Alexander , T. Eftekhari , B. D. Metzger

We present a sample of well-localised Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) discovered by the MeerTRAP project at the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. We discovered the three FRBs in single coherent tied-array beams and localised them to an area of ~1…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic radio pulses whose origins are poorly understood. The dispersion measure of host galaxy (${\rm DM_{host}}$) provides critical insights into the local environment of FRB sources. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Yu Sang , Hai-Nan Lin

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered class of GHz-band, ms-duration, Jy-level-flux astrophysical transients, which origin is still a mystery. Exploring their gamma-ray counterpart is crucial for constraining their origin and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 G. Principe , L. Di Venere , M. Negro , N. Di Lalla , N. Omodei , R. Di Tria , M. N. Mazziotta , F. Longo

Context: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio events of unknown extragalactic origin. Magnetars are among the main contenders. Some sources, the repeaters, produce multiple events but so far generally without the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Guillaume Voisin , Théo Francez

Fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) are luminous, rapidly evolving events with blue spectra, possibly powered by newborn magnetars and linked to fast radio bursts (FRBs). Given this potential connection, we conducted deep radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li , Yi-Xuan Shao , Ping Zhou , Pei Wang , Yun-Wei Yu , Zhen Yan , Di Li

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration signals which encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas distributions. Here we report…

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

We present a multiband study of FRB 20180916B, a repeating source with a 16.3 day periodicity. We report the detection of 4, 1 and 7 bursts from observations spanning 3 days using upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (300-500 MHz),…

We report the detection of a single burst from the first-discovered repeating Fast Radio Burst source, FRB 121102, with CHIME/FRB, which operates in the frequency band 400-800 MHz. The detected burst occurred on 2018 November 19 and its…

We present results of the coordinated observing campaign that made the first subarcsecond localization of a Fast Radio Burst, FRB 121102. During this campaign, we made the first simultaneous detection of an FRB burst by multiple telescopes:…

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration transients with large dispersion measures. The origin of FRBs is still mysterious. One of the methods to comprehend FRB origin is to probe the physical environments of FRB host galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Tzu-Yin Hsu , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Bunyo Hatsukade , Tomotsugu Goto , Po-Ya Wang , Chih Teng Ling , Simon C. -C. Ho , Yuri Uno

We present the analysis of radio interferometric 2-s images from a MeerKAT observation of the repeating fast radio burst FRB121102 on September 2019, during which 11 distinct pulses have been previously detected using high time and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 J. C. Andrianjafy , N. Heeralall-Issur , A. A. Deshpande , K. Golap , P. Woudt , M. Caleb , E. D. Barr , W. Chen , F. Jankowski , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , J. Wu

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs), which occurs on millisecond time scales in the radio band, has not been well-understood. Among their unknown observational properties are their broadband spectra and persistent and transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Shangyu Sun , Wenfei Yu , Yunwei Yu , Dongming Mao , Jie Lin

We present very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of a continuum radio source potentially associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 20190520B. Using the European VLBI network (EVN), we find the source to be compact on…

The $\Lambda$CDM model successfully explains the majority of cosmological observations. However, the $\Lambda$CDM model is challenged by Hubble tension, a remarkable difference of Hubble constant $H_0$ between measurements from local probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-18 Q. Wu , G. Q. Zhang , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have excessive dispersion measures (DMs) and an all-sky distribution, which point toward an extragalactic or even a cosmological origin. We develop a method to extract the mean host galaxy DM ($\left\langle{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Yuan-Pei Yang , Rui Luo , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang

The recent detection of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has generated strong interest in identifying the origin of these bright, non-repeating, highly dispersed pulses. The principal limitation in understanding the origin of these bursts is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Keith W. Bannister , Greg. J. Madsen