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More than a decade after their discovery, astronomical Fast Radio Bursts remain enigmatic. They are known to occur at "cosmological" distances, implying large energy and radiated power, extraordinarily high brightness and coherent emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 J. I. Katz

The discovery of the `Lorimer Burst', a little over a decade ago, ignited renewed interest in searching for short-duration radio transients. This event is now considered to be the first established Fast Radio Burst (FRB), which is a class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 J. W. T. Hessels

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

There are by now ten published detections of fast radio bursts (FRBs), single bright GHz-band millisecond pulses of unknown origin. Proposed explanations cover a broad range from exotic processes at cosmological distances to atmospheric and…

We examine the possibility that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originate from the activity of extragalactic civilizations. Our analysis shows that beams used for powering large light sails could yield parameters that are consistent with FRBs. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Manasvi Lingam , Abraham Loeb

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic extragalactic radio transients with unknown origins. We performed comprehensive Monte Carlo simulations based on the first CHIME/FRB catalog to test whether the FRB population tracks the cosmic star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-13 Min Meng , Can-Min Deng

We discuss possible association of fast radio bursts (FRBs) with supergiant pulses emitted by young pulsars (ages $\sim$ tens to hundreds of years) born with regular magnetic field but very short -- few milliseconds -- spin periods. FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Maxim Lyutikov , Lukasz Burzawa , Sergei B. Popov

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic millisecond-duration radio transients whose nature remains unknown. The advent of numerous facilities conducting dedicated FRB searches has dramatically revolutionised the field: hundreds of new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Inés Pastor-Marazuela

Although fast radio bursts (FRBs) were discovered more than a decade ago, and they have been one of the active fields in astronomy and cosmology, their origins are still unknown. An interesting topic closely related to the origins of FRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Lin-Yu Li , Jing-Yi Jia , Da-Chun Qiang , Hao Wei

We consider some general implications of bright gamma-ray counterparts to fast radio bursts (FRBs). We show that even if these manifest in only a fraction of FRBs, gamma-ray detections with current satellites (including Swift) can provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 Kohta Murase , Peter Meszaros , Derek B. Fox

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 millisecond-duration radio pulses with largely unknown origins, with a subset exhibiting repeating behavior. Magnetars highly magnetized neutron stars and a leading progenitor candidate for FRBs also produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Ellen C. C. Lin , Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomotsugu Goto , Tetsuya Hashimoto

We discuss the possibility of using fast radio bursts (FRBs), if cosmological, as a viable cosmic probe. We find out that the contribution of the host galaxies to the detected dispersion measures can be inapparent for the FRBs not from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 Bei Zhou , Xiang Li , Tao Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

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

Quasi-periodic oscillations inferred during rare magnetar giant flare tails were initially interpreted as torsional oscillations of the neutron star (NS) crust, and have been more recently described as global core+crust perturbations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Zorawar Wadiasingh , Cecilia Chirenti

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are an emerging class of bright, highly dispersed radio pulses. Recent work by Thornton et al. (2013) has revealed a population of FRBs in the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey at high Galactic latitudes.…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. Their high luminosities and short durations require extreme energy densities, like those found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes. Studying…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious radio transients whose physical origin is still unknown. Within a few astronomical units near an FRB source, the electric field of the electromagnetic wave is so large that the electron oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-01 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts are brief, highly dispersed bursts detected in the radio band, originating from cosmological distances. The only such event detected in the Milky Way galaxy, FRB 20200428DD, was associated with an X-ray burst emitted by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-04 Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic distances. Radio dispersion on each burst is imparted by intervening plasma mostly located in the intergalactic medium. We observe a…