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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright and short radio flashes of cosmological origin. Although a great number of FRBs were detected in the last two decades, their progenitors and the physical processes that create them are unknown. In recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Dotan Gazith , Barak Zackay

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin. Their high luminosities and short durations require extreme energy densities, like those found in the vicinity of neutron stars and black holes. Studying…

Most Fast Radio Burst (FRB) models are built from comparatively common astronomical objects: neutron stars, black holes and supernova remnants. Yet FRB sources are rare, and most of these objects, found in the Galaxy, do not make FRB.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-20 J. I. Katz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are cosmic sources emitting millisecond-duration radio bursts. Although several hundreds FRBs have been discovered, their physical nature and central engine remain unclear. The variations of Faraday rotation measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-23 F. Y. Wang , G. Q. Zhang , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

Recently, Thornton et al. reported the detection of four fast radio bursts (FRBs). The dispersion measures indicate that the sources of these FRBs are at cosmological distance. Given the large full sky event rate ~ 10^4 sky^-1 day^-1, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Kazumi Kashiyama , Kunihito Ioka , Peter Mészáros

The physical nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is not identified. Detecting electromagnetic counterparts in other wavelengths is essential to measure their distances and to settle down their physical nature. Assuming that at least some of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Shuang-Xi Yi , He Gao , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio signals that last milliseconds. They originate from cosmological distances and have relatively high dispersion measures (DMs), making them being excellent distance indicators. However, the origins of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Wenqi Ma , Zhifu Gao , Biaopeng Li , Chenhui Niu , Jumei Yao , Fayin Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious radio transients whose physical origin is still unknown. Within a few astronomical units near an FRB source, the electric field of the electromagnetic wave is so large that the electron oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-01 Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

The association between FRB 20200428D and the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 makes magnetars the leading engine of cosmological fast radio bursts (FRBs). However, there is a list of puzzles for this magnetar-for-all-FRBs scenario: known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-09 Bing Zhang , Rui-Chong Hu

The engines that produce extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs), and the mechanism by which the emission is generated, remain unknown. Many FRB models predict prompt multi-wavelength counterparts, which can be used to refine our knowledge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Ge Chen , Vikram Ravi , Wenbin Lu

Aims. Fast Radio Bursts are bright radio transients whose origin has not yet explained. The search for a multi-wavelength counterpart of those events can put a tight constrain on the emission mechanism and the progenitor source. Methods. We…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic high-energy events with unknown origins, which are observationally divided into two categories, i.e., repeaters and non-repeaters. However, there are potentially a number of non-repeaters that may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 Wan-Peng Sun , Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Wan-Ting Hou , Fu-Wen Zhang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-timescale transients of extragalactic origin. The number of detected FRBs has grown dramatically since their serendipitous discovery from archival data. Some FRBs have also been seen to repeat. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Pavan Uttarkar , Ryan M. Shannon , Marcus E. Lower , Pravir Kumar , Danny C. Price , A. T. Deller , K. Gourdji

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transient events, a subset of which have been localized to their host galaxies. Their high dispersion measures offer valuable insights into the ionized plasma along their line of sight, enabling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Surajit Kalita , Shruti Bhatporia , Amanda Weltman

Accompanied by an X-ray burst, the fast radio burst (FRB) FRB 200428 was recently confirmed as originating from the Galactic magnetar soft gamma repeater (SGR) SGR J1935+2154. Just before and after FRB 200428 was detected, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-15 Yu-Han Yang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Lin Lin , Bing Zhang , Guo-Qiang Zhang , Yi-Si Yang , Zuo-Lin Tu , Jin-Hang Zou , Hao-Yang Ye , Fa-Yin Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with short durations and extremely high brightness temperatures, and their physical origins are still unknown. Recently, a repeating source, FRB 20200120E, was found in a globular cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Yuan-Pei Yang

The nature of fast radio bursts (FRB) has been extensively debated. Here we investigate FRB121102, detected at Arecibo telescope and remarkable for its unusually large spectral index. After extensive study we conclude that the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 S. R. Kulkarni , E. O. Ofek , J. D. Neill

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…

The persistent radio source (PRS) associated with FRB 20121102A, the first precisely localized repeating fast radio burst (FRB), provides key constraints on both its local environment and the nature of the underlying FRB engine. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 Mohit Bhardwaj , Arvind Balasubramanian , Yasha Kaushal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

The discovery of a persistent radio source coincident with the first repeating fast radio burst, FRB 121102, and offset from the center of its dwarf host galaxy has been used as evidence for a link with young millisecond magnetars born in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 T. Eftekhari , E. Berger , B. Margalit , B. D. Metzger , P. K. G. Williams