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The activity of the repeating FRB 20180916B is periodically modulated with a period of 16.3 days, and FRB 121102 may be similarly modulated with a period of about 160 days. In some models of this modulation the period derivative is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-05 J. I. Katz

Recent observations of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) suggest that some FRBs reside in an environment consistent with that of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. The bursting rate for repeaters could be very high and the emission site is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-25 Bing Zhang

Recently, a precise (sub-arcsecond) localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 has led to the discovery of persistent radio and optical counterparts, the identification of a host dwarf galaxy at a redshift of $z=0.193$, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 D. Xiao , Z. G. Dai

The spectra of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode valuable information about the source's local environment, underlying emission mechanism(s), and the intervening media along the line of sight. We present results from a long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Aaron B. Pearlman , Walid A. Majid , Thomas A. Prince , Kenzie Nimmo , Jason W. T. Hessels , Charles J. Naudet , Jonathon Kocz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for $\sim $ few milli-seconds and, hence, are likely to arise from the gravitational collapse of supra-massive, spinning neutron stars after they lose the centrifugal support (Falcke \& Rezzolla 2014). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Patrick Das Gupta , Nidhi Saini

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 frequency-dependent periodic active window of the fast radio burst FRB 180916.J0158+65 (FRB 180916B) was observed recently. In this Letter, we propose that a Be/X-ray binary (BeXRB) system, which is composed of a neutron star (NS) and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Qiao-Chu Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , F. Y. Wang , Kun Xu , Yong Shao , Ze-Nan Liu , Z. G. Dai

The spectra of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) are complex and time-variable, sometimes peaking within the observing band and showing a fractional emission bandwidth of about 10-30%. These spectral features may provide insight into the…

Recent observations of a small sample of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have revealed a periodicity in their bursting activity that may be suggestive of a binary origin for the modulation. We set out to explore the scenario where a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Kaustubh Rajwade , Jakob van den Eijnden

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…

In this work, we propose an accreting stellar binary model for understanding the active periodic fast radio bursts (FRBs). The system consists of a stellar compact object (CO) and a donor star (DS) companion in an eccentric orbit, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Can-Min Deng , Shu-Qing Zhong , Zi-Gao Dai

We propose a compact binary model for the fast radio burst (FRB) repeaters, where the system consists of a magnetic white dwarf (WD) and a neutron star (NS) with strong bipolar magnetic fields. When the WD fills its Roche lobe, mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Wei-Min Gu , Yi-Ze Dong , Tong Liu , Renyi Ma , Junfeng Wang

The fast radio burst FRB 121102 has repeated multiple times, enabling the identification of its host galaxy and of a spatially-coincident, compact, steady (`quiescent') radio synchrotron source. It was proposed that FRB 121102 is powered by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger

Context: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio events of unknown extragalactic origin. Magnetars are among the main contenders. Some sources, the repeaters, produce multiple events but so far generally without the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Guillaume Voisin , Théo Francez

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous radio transients with millisecond duration. For some active repeaters, such as FRBs 20121102A and 20201124A, more than a thousand bursts have been detected by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Hao-Yan Chen

The repeating FRB 121102 emitted a pair of discrete bursts separated by 37 ms and another pair, 131 days later, separated by 34 ms, during observations that detected FRB at a mean rate of $2 \times 10^{-4}$/s. Here I assume that these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-10 J. I. Katz

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient radio signals with millisecond-duration, large dispersion measure (DM) and extremely high brightness temperature. Among them, FRB 20180916B has been found to have a 16-day periodically modulated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-15 Hao-Tian Lan , Zhen-Yin Zhao , Yu-Jia Wei , F. Y. Wang

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 properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate that the physical origin of this type of astrophysical phenomenon is related to neutron stars. The first detected repeating source, FRB 121102, is associated with a persistent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-02 Yu-Han Yang , Zi-Gao Dai