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We examine the possibility that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originate from the activity of extragalactic civilizations. Our analysis shows that beams used for powering large light sails could yield parameters that are consistent with FRBs. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Manasvi Lingam , Abraham Loeb

We collect 133 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), including 110 non-repeating and 23 repeating ones, and systematically investigate their observational properties. To check the frequency dependence of FRB classifications, we define our samples with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 X. J. Li , X. F. Dong , Z. B. Zhang , D. Li

Fast radio bursts are extragalactic radio transient events lasting a few milliseconds with a ~Jy flux at ~1 GHz. We propose that these properties suggest a neutron star progenitor, and focus on coherent curvature radiation as the radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Gabriele Ghisellini , Nicola Locatelli

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio signals from unknown cosmic origin. Many models associate FRBs with high-energy astrophysical objects such as magnetars. In this attempt to find counterparts to FRBs, we explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-07 Halim Ashkar , Mehdi El Bouhaddouti , Stephen Fegan , Fabian Schüssler

We present Monte-Carlo simulations of a cosmological population of repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources whose comoving density follows the cosmic star formation rate history. We assume a power-law model for the intrinsic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 M. Caleb , B. Stappers , K. Rajwade , C. Flynn

The existence of fast radio bursts (FRBs), a new type of extragalatic transients, has been established recently and quite a few models have been proposed. In this work we discuss the possible connection between the FRB sources and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Xiang Li , Bei Zhou , Hao-Ning He , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio pulses with largely unknown origins, with a subset exhibiting repeating behavior. Magnetars highly magnetized neutron stars and a leading progenitor candidate for FRBs also produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Ellen C. C. Lin , Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomotsugu Goto , Tetsuya Hashimoto

Dispersion measure (DM) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are commonly used as a indicator of distance assuming that DM in excess of the expected amount within the Milky Way in the direction of each FRB arise mostly from the inter-galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yuu Niino

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic transient events with duration of order of microseconds to milliseconds and of unknown origin. They are known to lie at cosmological distances, through localisation to host galaxies. Recently,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Nayab Gohar , Chris Flynn

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely powerful sources of radio waves observed at cosmological distances. We use a sophisticated model of FRB observations -- presented in detail in a companion paper -- to fit FRB population parameters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 C. W. James , J. X. Prochaska , J. -P. Macquart , F. North-Hickey , K. W. Bannister , A. Dunning

Fast radio burst (FRB) discoveries are occurring rapidly, with thousands expected from upcoming surveys. The dispersion measures (DM) observed for FRB include important information on cosmological distances and the ionization state of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , Eric V. Linder

One of the key limitations of large-scale structure surveys of the current and future generation, such as Euclid, LSST-Rubin or Roman, is the influence of feedback processes on the distribution of matter in the Universe. This effect, called…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Robert Reischke , Dennis Neumann , Klara Antonia Bertmann , Steffen Hagstotz , Hendrik Hildebrandt

Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), still eluding a rational explanation, are astronomical radio flashes with durations of milliseconds. They are thought to be of an extragalactic origin, with luminosities orders of magnitude larger than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 George Machabeli , Andria Rogava , Beka Tevdorashvili

We reconstruct the extragalactic dispersion measure \ -- redshift relation (${\rm DM_E}-z$ relation) from well-localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) using Bayesian inference method. Then the ${\rm DM_E}-z$ relation is used to infer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li

The discovery of a fast radio burst (FRB) in our galaxy associated with a magnetar (neutron star with strong magnetic field) has provided a critical piece of information to help us finally understand these enigmatic transients. We show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-31 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , Bing Zhang

The recent detection of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has generated strong interest in identifying the origin of these bright, non-repeating, highly dispersed pulses. The principal limitation in understanding the origin of these bursts is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Keith W. Bannister , Greg. J. Madsen

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, mostly millisecond-duration transients of extragalactic origin whose emission mechanisms remain unknown. As FRB signals propagate through ionized media, they experience frequency-dependent delays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Hosein Rajabi , Zhejian Liu , Fereshteh Rajabi , Martin Houde

Fast radio bursts appear to exhibit large dispersion measures, typically exceeding any expected galactic interstellar contribution, especially along the moderate to high-galactic-latitude directions in which such events have been most often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Brian Dennison

Fast radio bursts (FRB) can arise from synchrotron maser emission at ultra-relativistic magnetized shocks, such as produced by flare ejecta from young magnetars. We combine PIC simulation results for the synchrotron maser with the dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Brian D. Metzger , Ben Margalit , Lorenzo Sironi

The production mechanism of fast radio bursts (FRBs)--mysterious, bright, millisecond-duration radio flashes from cosmological distances--remains unknown. Understanding potential correlations between burst occurrence times and various burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomonori Totani