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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense, millisecond-duration radio transients that have recently been proposed to arise from coherent radiation mechanisms within the magnetosphere of neutron stars. Observations of repeating FRBs, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Gong-Yu Yao , Can-Min Deng

We present the first catalog of fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies from CHIME/FRB Outriggers, selected uniformly in the radio and the optical by localizing 81 new bursts to 2'' x ~60'' accuracy using CHIME and the KKO Outrigger, located…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients that probe extreme astrophysical environments. Many FRBs exhibit multi-component structures, which encode information about their emission mechanisms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 Jia-heng Zhang , Chen-Hui Niu , Yu-hao Zhu , Di Li , Yu Wang , Wei-yang Wang , Yi Feng , Xin-ming Li , Jia-rui Niu , Pei Wang , Yun-wei Yu , Yong-kun Zhang , Xiao-ping Zheng

The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon content of the intergalactic medium, which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic dispersion. While the host galaxy contributions to…

The physical nature of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a new type of cosmological transients discovered recently, is not known. It has been suggested that FRBs can be produced when a spinning supra-massive neutron star loses centrifugal support…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, unresolved, millisecond-duration flashes of radio emission originating from outside of the Milky Way. The source of these mysterious outbursts is unknown, but their high luminosity, high dispersion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Jamie Holder , Ryan S. Lynch

We present the discovery of as-of-yet non-repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB), FRB 20210117A, with the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) as a part of the Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients (CRAFT) Survey. The…

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

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

Nearly 700 fast radio burst (FRB) sources have been detected till now, among which 29 FRBs are found to burst out repeatedly. Although a firm connection between at least some FRBs and magnetars has been established, the trigger mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Chen-Ran Hu , Yong-Feng Huang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense, millisecond-duration broadband radio transients, the emission mechanisms of which are not understood. Masui et al. recently presented Green Bank Telescope observations of FRB 110523, which displayed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Vikram Ravi , Paul D. Lasky

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond pulses of radio emission of seemingly extragalactic origin. More than 50 FRBs have now been detected, with only one seen to repeat. Here we present a new FRB discovery, FRB 110214, which was detected…

It is proposed that sources of repeating fast radio bursts with detected periodicity are magnetars with extremely short initial spin periods at the protoneutron star stage, formed in binaries after tidal synchronization of their progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 S. B. Popov

Repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) present excellent opportunities to identify FRB progenitors and host environments, as well as decipher the underlying emission mechanism. Detailed studies of repeating FRBs might also hold clues to the…

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous, dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts whose origin is poorly known. Recent observations suggest that some FRBs may reside in binary systems, even though conclusive evidence remains elusive. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-15 Jiangwei Xu , Heng Xu , Yanjun Guo , Jinchen Jiang , Bojun Wang , Zihan Xue , Yunpeng Men , Kejia Lee , Bing Zhang , Weiwei Zhu , Jinlin Han

The newly discovered second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source, FRB 180814.J0422+73, was reported to exhibit a time-frequency downward drifting pattern, which is also seen in the first repeater FRB 121102. We propose a generic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Weiyang Wang , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen , Renxin Xu

We model the sample of fast radio bursts (FRB), including the newly discovered CHIME repeaters, using the synchrotron blast wave model of Metzger, Margalit & Sironi (2019). This model postulates that FRBs are precursor radiation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger , Lorenzo Sironi

Several theories exist to explain the source of the bright, millisecond duration pulses known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). If the progenitors of FRBs are non-cataclysmic, such as giant pulses from pulsars, pulsar-planet binaries, or…

Currently, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have become a very active field in astronomy and cosmology. However, the origin of FRBs is still unknown to date. The studies on the intrinsic FRB distributions might help us to reveal the possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-21 Da-Chun Qiang , Shu-Ling Li , Hao Wei