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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances. Only a small fraction of FRBs apparently repeat. Polarization, a fundamental property of electromagnetic signals, often carries critical information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Yi Feng , Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Shi Dai , Ju-Mei Yao

FRB 121102 is the only known repeating fast radio burst source. Here we analyze a wide-frequency-range (1-8 GHz) sample of high-signal-to-noise, coherently dedispersed bursts detected using the Arecibo and Green Bank telescopes. These…

We revisit the eccentric neutron star (NS)-white dwarf (WD) binary model for the periodic activity of fast radio burst (FRB) sources, by including the effects of gravitational wave (GW) radiation. In this model, the WD fills its Roche lobe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 Yi-Qing Lin , Hao-Yan Chen , Wei-Min Gu , Tuan Yi

We report the observations of a repeating FRB 20230607A for 15.6 hours spanning 16 months using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) with the detection of 565 bursts. We present three bright bursts with detailed…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients. As they propagate through the interstellar medium, they interact with free electrons, resulting in dispersion. The corresponding dispersion measure (DM) is referred to as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Yi Feng , Dengke Zhou , Y. -K. Zhang , D. Li , Jianhua Fang , Jiaying Xu , Chenyuan Xu , Jintao Xie

We report on optical imaging of the X-ray binary SAX J1808.4-3658 with the 8-m Gemini South Telescope. The binary, containing an accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, appears to have a large periodic modulation in its quiescent optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Zhongxiang Wang , Cees Bassa , Andrew Cumming , Victoria M. Kaspi

Recent observations of FRB 20190520B have revealed rapid fluctuation of its Dispersion Measure within apparently fixed bounds, as well as a reversal of its Rotation Measure. The fluctuations of Dispersion Measure are uncorrelated with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 J. I. Katz

We report the detection of periodic (p = 1.96 hours) bursts of extremely bright, 100% circularly polarized, coherent radio emission from the M9 dwarf TVLM 513-46546. Simultaneous photometric monitoring observations have established this…

Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei is known to vary strongly over time over a wide energy band, but the origin of the variability and especially of the inter-band correlations is still not well established. Here we present the results of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Arévalo , P. Uttley , S. Kaspi , E. Breedt , P. Lira , I. M. McHardy

The spectra of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode valuable information about the source's local environment, underlying emission mechanism(s), and the intervening media along the line of sight. We present results from a long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Aaron B. Pearlman , Walid A. Majid , Thomas A. Prince , Kenzie Nimmo , Jason W. T. Hessels , Charles J. Naudet , Jonathon Kocz

Fast radio busts (FRBs) can exhibit a wide variety of polarisation properties, not only between sources but also from burst to burst for a same one. In this work, we revisit the polarisation characters of coherent curvature radiation from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Wei-Yang Wang , Jin-Chen Jiang , Kejia Lee , Renxin Xu , Bing Zhang

We present the detection of day-timescale periodic variability in the r-band lightcurve of newly outbursting FU Orionis-type object HBC 722, taken from > 42 nights of observation with the CQUEAN instrument on the McDonald Observatory 2.1m…

We present Effelsberg 100-m telescope observations of the hyperactive repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20240110A, discovered by CHIME/FRB in January 2024. Using the Ultra BroadBand (UBB) receiver, spanning 1.3-6.0 GHz, we detected over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 P. Limaye , L. G. Spitler , N. Manaswini , J. Benáček , F. Eppel , M. Kadler , L. Nicotera , J. Wongphechauxsorn

A homogeneous set of UBV photometry (354 data points obtained between 1983 and 1998) for the Be/X-ray binary A0535+26 = V725Tau is analysed, aiming to look for possible periodic component(s). After subtraction of the long-term variation it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Larionov , V. M. Lyuty , G. V. Zaitseva

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of extragalactic origin. Classifying repeating FRBs is essential for understanding their emission mechanisms, but remains challenging due to their short durations, high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 An-Chieh Hsu , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Tomoki Wada , Bjorn Jasper Raquel

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are energetic millisecond phenomena in radio band. Polarimetric studies of repeating FRBs indicate that many of these sources occupy extreme and complex magneto-ionized environments. Recently, a frequency-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-14 Wan-Jin Lu , Zhen-Yin Zhao , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

The repeating FRB 121102, the only FRB with an accurately determined position, is associated with a variable persistent radio source consistent with a low luminosity active galactic nucleus. I suggest that FRB originate in the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 J. I. Katz

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration radio transients of extra-galactic origin, whose underlying mechanisms and progenitors remain poorly understood. FRBs are broadly classified into two categories: repeating FRBs,…

We study the spectro-temporal characteristics of two repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), namely, FRB 20180916B and FRB 20180814A, and combine the results with those from our earlier analysis on FRB 20121102A. The relationship between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Mohammed A. Chamma , Fereshteh Rajabi , Christopher M. Wyenberg , Abhilash Mathews , Martin Houde

We study milliarcsecond-scale properties of the persistent radio counterpart to FRB 121102 and investigate the spectro-polarimetric properties of a bright burst. For the former, we use European VLBI Network (EVN) observations in 2017 at 1.7…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 A. V. Plavin , Z. Paragi , B. Marcote , A. Keimpema , J. W. T. Hessels , K. Nimmo , H. K. Vedantham , L. G. Spitler