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Strong downstream magnetic fields of order of $\sim 1$G, with large correlation lengths, are believed to cause the large synchrotron emission at the afterglow phase of gamma ray bursts (GRBs). Despite of the recent theoretical efforts,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Rocha da Silva , D. Falceta-Goncalves , G. Kowal , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We analyze the statistics of pulse arrival times in fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 and demonstrate that they are remarkably similar to statistics of magnetar high-energy short bursts. Motivated by this correspondence, we propose that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-02 Zorawar Wadiasingh , Andrey Timokhin

Paper I in this series introduced a model in which seed radio bursts produced by a hotspot anchored in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetic neutron star (NS) are greatly amplified by strong gravitational self-lensing and thus give rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-16 Riccardo La Placa , Simone Dall'Osso , Luigi Stella , Andrea Possenti

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient intense radio pulses with duration of milliseconds. Although the first FRB was detected more than a decade ago, the progenitors of these energetic events are not yet known. The currently preferred…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Esha Kundu , Lilia Ferrario

The production mechanism of fast radio bursts (FRBs)--mysterious, bright, millisecond-duration radio flashes from cosmological distances--remains unknown. Understanding potential correlations between burst occurrence times and various burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomonori Totani

Chromospheric observations of sunspot umbrae offer an exceptional view of magneto-acoustic shock phenomena and the impact they have on the surrounding magnetically-dominated plasma. We employ simultaneous slit-based spectro-polarimetry and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 S. J. Houston , D. B. Jess , A. Asensio Ramos , S. D. T. Grant , C. Beck , A. A. Norton , S. Krishna Prasad

Fast radio bursts (FRB) will become important cosmological tools, as the number of observed FRBs is increasing rapidly with more surveys being carried out. A large sample of FRBs with dispersion measures (DM) and rotation measures (RM) can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Timea Orsolya Kovacs , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Yik Ki Ma , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker

Composed of shocked solar wind, the Earth's magnetosheath serves as a natural laboratory to study the transition of turbulence from low Alfv{\'e}n Mach number, $M_\mathrm{A}$, to high $M_\mathrm{A}$. The simultaneous observations of…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Hui Li , Wence Jiang , Chi Wang , Daniel Verscharen , Chen Zeng , C. T. Russell , B. Giles , J. L. Burch

Forbush decreases (FDs) are short-term reductions in galactic cosmic ray flux caused by interplanetary disturbances. During some interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) events, neutron monitor (NM) data also contain variations produced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Pengwei Zhao , Jie Feng

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a type of highly-polarized, millisecond-duration electromagnetic pulses in the radio band, which are mostly produced at cosmological distances. These properties provide a natural laboratory for testing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

We discuss dissipative processes occurring during production and escape of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from magnetars' magnetospheres, the presumed loci of FRBs. High magnetic fields are required in the emission region, both to account for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-19 Maxim Lyutikov

The evolution of a deformed subcritical fast magnetosonic shock front is compared between two two-dimensional PIC simulations with different orientations of the magnetic field relative to the simulation box. All other initial and simulation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 M E Dieckmann , A Bret , D Folini , R Walder

We develop a model for stochastic acceleration of electrons in solar flares. As in several previous models, the electrons are accelerated by turbulent fast magnetosonic waves ("fast waves") via transit-time-damping (TTD) interactions. (In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Peera Pongkitiwanichakul , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients with extremely high brightness temperatures at cosmological distances, and the physical origin and the radiation mechanism of FRBs are still unknown. The observed spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Yuan-Pei Yang

One of the potential sources of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is a rotating magnetosphere of a compact object, as suggested by the similarities in the polarization properties of FRBs and radio pulsars. Attempts to measure an underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Kaustubh M. Rajwade , Aris Karastergiou

The early optical afterglow emission of several gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) shows a high linear polarization degree (PD) of tens of percent, suggesting an ordered magnetic field in the emission region. The light curves are consistent with being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Wei Deng , Bing Zhang , Hui Li , James M. Stone

We present comprehensive multiwavelength radio to X-ray observations of GRB 181201A spanning from $\approx150$ s to $\approx163$ days after the burst, comprising the first joint ALMA-VLA-GMRT observations of a gamma-ray burst (GRB)…

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 millisecond-duration pulses originating from cosmological distances. Multi-wavelength counterparts associated with FRBs are important for unveiling their physical origins. Recent observations provide strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Z. Y. Zhao , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

We consider a magnetar flare model for fast radio bursts (FRBs). We show that millisecond burst of sufficient power can be generated by synchrotron maser emission ignited at the reverse shock propagating through the weakly magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Dmitry Khangulyan , Maxim V. Barkov , Sergey B. Popov