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We examine the energy distribution of the fast radio burst (FRB) population using a well-defined sample of 63 FRBs from the ASKAP radio telescope, 28 of which are localised to a host galaxy. We apply the luminosity-volume…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, energetic, extragalactic flashes of radio emission whose progenitors are largely unknown. Although studying the FRB population is essential for understanding how these astrophysical phenomena occur, such…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been found in great numbers, but the physical mechanism of these sources is still a mystery. The redshift evolutions of the FRB energy distribution function and the volumetric rate shed light on the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Jia-Ming Zou , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration radio transients whose physical origins remain debated. To shed light on this, we analyze the CHIME/FRB Catalog 2. By using the probability distribution of dispersion measured (DM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 X. D. Jia , D. H. Gao , J. H. Chen , Q. Wu , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious millisecond pulses in radio, most of which originate from distant galaxies. Revealing the origin of FRBs is becoming central in astronomy. The redshift evolution of the FRB energy function, i.e., the…

Since the discovery of the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and their confirmation as an abundant extragalactic population in 2013, the study of these sources has expanded at an incredible rate. In our 2019 review on the subject we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 E. Petroff , J. W. T. Hessels , D. R. Lorimer

Redshift and luminosity distributions are essential for understanding the cosmic evolution of extragalactic objects and phenomena, such as galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, and fast radio bursts (FRBs). For FRBs, these distributions are primarily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-12 Om Gupta , Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar , Steven L. Finkelstein

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sufficiently energetic to be detectable from luminosity distances up to at least seven billion parsecs (redshift $z > 1$). Probing the maximum energies and luminosities of FRBs constrains their emission…

While the appeal of their extraordinary radio luminosity to our curiosity is undiminished, the nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has remained unclear. The challenge has been due in part to small sample sizes and limited understanding of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Yuyang Wang , Joeri van Leeuwen

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are the first cosmological radio sources that vary on millisecond timescales, which makes them a unique probe of the Universe. Many proposed applications of FRBs require associated redshifts. These can only be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Joscha N. Jahns , Laura G. Spitler , Charles R. H. Walker , Carlton M. Baugh

High time resolution radio surveys over the last few years have discovered a population of millisecond-duration transient bursts called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which remain of unknown origin. FRBs exhibit dispersion consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Caleb , C. Flynn , M. Bailes , E. D. Barr , R. W. Hunstead , E. F. Keane , V. Ravi , W. van Straten

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, high-energy bursts of radio waves from extragalactic sources, and their origin remains an open question. In this paper, we perform a comprehensive analysis of the FRB population using the first CHIME/FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Qing-Zhen Lei , Xin-Zhe Wang , Can-Min Deng

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

The phenomenon of fast radio bursts (FRBs) was discovered in 2007. These are powerful (0.1-100 Jy) single radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds, large dispersion measures, and record high brightness temperatures suggesting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-14 S. B. Popov , K. A. Postnov , M. S. Pshirkov

Fast radio burst (FRB) is a type of extragalactic radio signal characterized by millisecond duration, extremely high brightness temperature, and large dispersion measure. It remains a mystery in the universe. Advancements in instrumentation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 Qin Wu , Fa-Yin Wang

In spite of significant progress in the research of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in recent decade, their origin is still under extensive debate. Investigation on the population of FRBs can provide new insight into this interesting problem. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin-Yi Li , Rui Zou

We summarize our understanding of millisecond radio bursts from an extragalactic population of sources. FRBs occur at an extraordinary rate, thousands per day over the entire sky with radiation energy densities at the source about ten…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

We compare the dispersion measure (DM) statistics of FRBs detected by the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes. We jointly model their DM distributions, exploiting the fact that the telescopes have different survey fluence limits but likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 W. R. Arcus , J. -P. Macquart , M. W. Sammons , C. W. James , R. D. Ekers

Quantifying the maximum energy of fast radio bursts (FRBs) can provide stringent constraints on their emission mechanisms and progenitor models. However, the most energetic bursts are rare, requiring a large sample of FRBs to detect them.…

We present constraints on the origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) using large cosmological simulations. We calculate contributions to FRB dispersion measures (DMs) from the Milky Way, from the local Universe, from cosmological large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-25 K. Dolag , B. M. Gaensler , A. M. Beck , M. C. Beck
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