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The discovery of periodicity in the arrival times of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) poses a challenge to the oft-studied magnetar scenarios. However, models that postulate that FRBs result from magnetized shocks or magnetic reconnection in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-16 Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger , Paz Beniamini , Ben Margalit , Mathieu Renzo , Lorenzo Sironi , Konstantinos Kovlakas

In 2007 we were part of a team that discovered the so-called ``Lorimer Burst'', the first example of a new class of objects now known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). These enigmatic events are only a few ms in duration and occur at random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Duncan R. Lorimer , Maura A. McLaughlin , Matthew Bailes

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

Extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) have emerged as powerful probes of turbulence within the intergalactic medium (IGM), a phenomenon that plays a crucial role in various cosmological and astrophysical processes. In this study, we employ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Rui-Nan Li , Zhao Joseph Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Qin Wu , F. Y. Wang

In 2007, a very bright radio pulse was identified in the archival data of the Parkes Telescope in Australia, marking the beginning of a new research branch in astrophysics. In 2013, this kind of millisecond bursts with extremely high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-08 Di Xiao , Fayin Wang , Zigao Dai

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

The discovery of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) at cosmological distances has opened a powerful window on otherwise unseen matter in the Universe. In the 2020s, observations of $>10^{4}$ FRBs will assess the baryon contents and physical…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense pulses with unknown origins. A subclass of repeating FRBs show some common features, such as associated compact persistent radio sources (PRSs), high burst rates, and large host-galaxy dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 F. Y. Wang , H. T. Lan , Z. Y. Zhao , Q. Wu , Y. Feng , S. X. Yi , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

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

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRB) has been extensively debated. Here we investigate FRB121102, detected at Arecibo telescope and remarkable for its unusually large spectral index. After extensive study we conclude that the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 S. R. Kulkarni , E. O. Ofek , J. D. Neill

Despite the first detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) being as recent as 2007, they have already been proven to be a fantastic tool as a unique cosmological probe. In this chapter, after a brief introduction to FRBs and how they are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 Marcin Glowacki , Khee-Gan Lee

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic transients with typical durations of milliseconds. FRBs have been shown, however, to fluctuate on a wide range of timescales: some show sub-microsecond sub-bursts while others last up to a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 M. P. Snelders , K. Nimmo , J. W. T. Hessels , Z. Bensellam , L. P. Zwaan , P. Chawla , O. S. Ould-Boukattine , F. Kirsten , J. T. Faber , V. Gajjar

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients of extraordinary luminosity. Studying the diverse temporal and spectral behaviour recently observed in a number of FRBs may help determine the nature of the entire class. For…

Six cases of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have recently been discovered. The FRBs are bright (~0.1 - 1 Jy) and brief (~ 1 ms) pulses of radio emission with dispersion measures (DMs) that exceed Galactic values, and hence FRBs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Abraham Loeb , Yossi Shvartzvald , Dan Maoz

Currently, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have become a very active field in astronomy and cosmology. However, the origin of FRBs is still unknown to date. The studies on the intrinsic FRB distributions might help us to reveal the possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-21 Da-Chun Qiang , Shu-Ling Li , Hao Wei

Although fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been an active field in astronomy and cosmology, their origin is still unknown to date. One of the interesting topics is the classification of FRBs, which is closely related to the origin of FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-12 Han-Yue Guo , Hao Wei

Some of the mysterious temporal properties of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) may be explained if they are produced by dynamically triaxial magnetars. If the bursts are narrowly collimated along open field lines, then observed repeating FRB are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 J. I. Katz

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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), characterized by strong bursts of radiation intensity at radio wavelengths lasting on the order of a millisecond, have yet to be firmly associated with a family, or families, of astronomical sources. It follows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Martin Houde , Abhilash Mathews , Fereshteh Rajabi

One scenario for the generation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is magnetic reconnection in a current sheet of the magnetar wind. Compressed by a strong magnetic pulse induced by a magnetar flare, the current sheet fragments into a self-similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 J. F. Mahlmann , A. A. Philippov , A. Levinson , A. Spitkovsky , H. Hakobyan