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Some accreting neutron stars and young stars show unexplained episodic flares in the form of quasi-periodic oscillations or recurrent outbursts. In a series of two papers we present new work on an instability that can lead to episodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Caroline R. D'Angelo , Hendrik C. Spruit

High-dispersion spectroscopic monitoring of HESS J0632+057 has been carried out over four orbital cycles in order to search for orbital modulation, covering the entire orbital phase. We have measured radial velocity of H$\alpha$ emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Yuki Moritani , Takafumi Kawano , Sho Chimasu , Akiko Kawachi , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Jumpei Takata , Alex C. Carciofi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, energetic, radio pulses of extragalactic origin. A dichotomy has emerged in the population: some produce repeat bursts, while the majority do not. Most repeating sources only show rare repetitions, and…

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

The high-mass X-ray binary LS I +61$^\circ$303 is detected across the electromagnetic spectrum from radio until the very high energy gamma-ray regime. The emission is not only highly variable on many time scales, but is also periodic at all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Frederic Jaron

We propose a scenario that can describe a broad range of FRB phenomenology, from non-repeating bursts to highly prolific repeaters. Coherent radio waves in these bursts are produced in the polar cap region of a magnetar, where magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar

We investigate the spatial distribution of X-ray emitting plasma in a sample of young Orion Nebula Cluster stars by modulation of their X-ray light-curves due to stellar rotation. The study, part of the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project…

For the first time connection between the pulsation and modulation properties of RR Lyrae stars has been detected. Based on the available data it is found that the possible range of the modulation frequencies, i.e, the possible maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Johanna Jurcsik , Béla Szeidl , Andrea Nagy , Ádám Sódor

We report on the detection of seven bursts from the periodically active, repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 180916.J0158+65 in the 300-400-MHz frequency range with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Emission in multiple bursts is…

Brown dwarfs display Jupiter-like auroral phenomena, such as rotationally modulated electron cyclotron maser radio emission. Radio observations of cyclotron maser emission can be used to measure their magnetic field strength, topology, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Timothy W. H. Yiu , Harish K. Vedantham , Joseph R. Callingham , Timothy W. Shimwell

The event rate, energy distribution, and time-domain behaviour of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) contains essential information regarding their physical nature and central engine, which are as yet unknown. As the first…

We consider a simple dynamical and relativistic model to explain the spectro-temporal structure often displayed by repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). We show how this model can account for the downward frequency drift in a sequence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Fereshteh Rajabi , Mohammed A. Chamma , Christopher M. Wyenberg , Abhilash Mathews , Martin Houde

Coherent curvature radiation as the radiation mechanism for fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been discussed since FRBs were discovered. We study the spectral and polarization properties of repeating FRBs within the framework of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Chen-Hui Niu , Renxin Xu , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-timescale radio transients, the origins of which are predominantly extragalactic and likely involve highly magnetized compact objects. FRBs undergo multipath propagation, or scattering, from electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , D. Li , C. H. Niu , J. W. McKee , C. J. Law , R. Anna-Thomas

The optical light curve of the Be/neutron star binary AX J0049.4-7323 has been investigated using data from the MACHO and OGLE-II projects. This X-ray source, whose neutron star has a very slow rotation rate (P_pulse=755.5 sec), shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. P. Cowley , P. C. Schmidtke

In a search for periodic variation in the arrival times of pulses from 151 young, energetic pulsars, we have identified seven cases of modulation consistent with one or two harmonics of a single fundamental with time-scale 0.5-1.5 yr. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-19 Matthew Kerr , George Hobbs , Simon Johnston , Ryan Shannon

Using 400 days of new X-ray monitoring of M82, we confirm the 62 day periodicity previously reported. In the full data set spanning 1124 days, we find a period of 62.0 +/- 0.3 days and a coherence, Q = 22.3, that is consistent with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Philip Kaaret , Hua Feng

Recent observations of a small sample of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have revealed a periodicity in their bursting activity that may be suggestive of a binary origin for the modulation. We set out to explore the scenario where a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Kaustubh Rajwade , Jakob van den Eijnden

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, intense flashes of radio waves from unidentified extragalactic sources. Polarized FRBs originate in highly magnetized environments. We report observations of the repeating FRB 20190520B spanning seventeen…