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One of the cornerstones of modern physics is Einstein's special relativity, with its constant speed of light and zero photon mass assumptions. Constraint on the rest mass m_{\gamma} of photons is a fundamental way to test Einstein's theory,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-03 Bo Zhang , Ya-Ting Chai , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Xue-Feng Wu

Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRB's) is a central unsolved problem in astrophysics that is severely hampered by their poorly determined distance scale. Determining the redshift distribution of FRB's appears to require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Masoud Rafiei-Ravandi , Kendrick M. Smith , Kiyoshi W. Masui

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 field of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has entered the age of fine characterization as observational results from different radio telescopes become more and more abundant. The large FRB sample is suitable for a statistical study. There is an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Di Xiao , Zi-Gao Dai , Xue-Feng Wu

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, luminous pulses with unknown physical origin. The repetition pattern of FRBs contains essential information about their physical nature and emission mechanisms. Using the two largest samples of FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 F. Y. Wang , Q. Wu , Z. G. Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond radio signals from cosmological distances. As they propagate, FRBs can interact with ambient photons and initiate a quantum cascade that can limit the electric field strength. This paper examines…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-24 Jun-Yi Shen , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration at cosmological distances. Since compact dark matter/objects (COs) could act as lenses and cause split of this kind of very short duration signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Kai Liao , S. -B. Zhang , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao

Radio signals propagating through inhomogeneous plasma media deviate from their original paths, producing frequency-dependent magnification effects. In this paper, after reviewing the classical plasma-lensing theory, we have found a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-26 Yu-Bin Wang , Xia Zhou , Abdusattar Kurban

Based on two very large samples of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), i.e. FRB 20121102A and FRB 20201124A observed by the FAST telescope, we study the statistical properties of energy and waiting time. The bent power-law (BPL) model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Yu Sang , Hai-Nan Lin

The fast radio bursts (FRBs) 110220 and 140514 were detected at telescope pointing locations within 9 arcmin of each other over three years apart, both within the same 14.4 arcmin beam of the Parkes radio telescope. Nevertheless, they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-14 Anthony L. Piro , Sarah Burke-Spolaor

The millisecond-duration radio flashes known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) represent an enigmatic astrophysical phenomenon. Recently, the sub-arcsecond localization (~ 100mas precision) of FRB121102 using the VLA has led to its unambiguous…

It is pointed out that the positional distribution of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) shows proximity and clustering around the ecliptic. Their dispersion measure (DM) has a weak (80 percent significance level) correlation with the magnitude of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-24 Subhash N. Karbelkar

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

The production mechanism of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still a mystery, and correlations between burst occurrence times and energies may provide important clues to elucidate it. While time correlation studies of FRBs have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Tomonori Totani , Yuya Tsuzuki

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are increasingly being used for cosmological applications such as measuring the Hubble constant and baryon abundance. The increasing number of localized FRBs and precise measurement of dispersion measure (DM) make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Paz Beniamini

We conduct a comprehensive spectro-temporal analysis of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) utilizing nine distinct sources, the largest sample to date. Our data set includes 175 sub-bursts and 31 multi-component bursts from 11 data sets,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-31 Katie Brown , Mohammed A. Chamma , Fereshteh Rajabi , Aishwarya Kumar , Hosein Rajabi , Martin Houde

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

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are recently discovered extra-galactic radio transients which are now used as novel cosmological probes. We show how the Bursts' Dispersion Measure can model-independently probe the history of Hydrogen reionization.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Stefan Heimersheim

Context. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long bursts uniquely detected at radio frequencies. FRB 131104 is the only case for which a $\gamma$-ray transient positionally and temporally consistent was claimed. This high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 R. Martone , C. Guidorzi , R. Margutti , L. Nicastro , L. Amati , F. Frontera , M. Marongiu , M. Orlandini , E. Virgilli

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients with an observed dispersion measure ($DM$) greater than the expected Milky Way contribution, which suggests that such events are of extragalactic origin. Although some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-30 Thais Lemos , Rodrigo S. Gonçalves , Joel C. Carvalho , Jailson S. Alcaniz
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