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The first locations of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in elliptical galaxies suggest they are produced by the mergers of double neutron star (DNS) binaries in old stellar populations. Globular clusters, where the extreme densities of very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jonathan Grindlay , Simon Portegies Zwart , Stephen McMillan

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

The discovery of the `Lorimer Burst', a little over a decade ago, ignited renewed interest in searching for short-duration radio transients. This event is now considered to be the first established Fast Radio Burst (FRB), which is a class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 J. W. T. Hessels

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, intense flashes of radio waves from unidentified extragalactic sources. Polarized FRBs originate in highly magnetized environments. We report observations of the repeating FRB 20190520B spanning seventeen…

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has remained a mystery up to now. There are two kinds of process invoking neutron stars as an origin of FRBs, namely inner-driven starquakes and outer-driven collisions with interstellar objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Yi-Nan Chen , Yong-Kun Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai

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

Among more than 1000 known fast radio bursts (FRBs), only five sources - FRBs 20121102A, 20190520B, 20201124A, 20240114A and 20190417A - have confirmed associations with persistent radio sources (PRS). The observed quasi-steady emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-10 Mukul Bhattacharya , Kohta Murase , Kazumi Kashiyama

Recent observations show that fast radio bursts (FRBs) are energetic but probably non-catastrophic events occurring at cosmological distances. The properties of their progenitors are largely unknown in spite of many attempts to determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar

Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show complicated variations and reversals of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), indicating that the sources of these FRBs are embedded in a dynamically magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Z. Y. Zhao , G. Q. Zhang , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio pulses of cosmological origin. Among the most common sources predicted to explain this phenomenon are bright pulses from a class of extremely highly magnetized neutron stars known as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-31 S. Paine , T. Hawkins , D. R. Lorimer , J. Stanley , J. Kania , F. Crawford , N. Fairfield

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient radio sources at cosmological distances. No counterparts in other bands have been observed for { non-repeating FRBs}. Here we suggest the collapse of strange star crusts as a possible origin for FRBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-15 Yue Zhang , Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are usually suggested to be associated with mergers of compact binaries consisting of white dwarfs (WDs), neutron stars (NSs), or black holes (BHs). We test these models by fitting the observational distributions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Xiao-Feng Cao , Yun-Wei Yu , Xia Zhou

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains mysterious. Recently, the only repeating FRB source, FRB 121102, was reported to possess an extremely large and variable rotation measure (RM). The inferred magnetic field strength in the burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic astrophysical transients whose brightness requires emitters that are highly energetic, yet compact enough to produce the short, millisecond-duration bursts. FRBs have thus far been detected between…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio bursts with unidentified extra-galactic origin. Some FRBs exhibit mild magneto-ionic environmental variations, possibly attributed to plasma turbulence or binary configuration. We…

We analyze the slow periodicities identified in burst sequences from FRB 121102 and FRB 180916 with periods of about 16 and 160 d, respectively, while also addressing the absence of any fast periodicity that might be associated with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-21 J. M. Cordes , I. Wasserman , Shami Chatterjee , Gauri Batra

Fast radio bursts are mysterious millisecond-duration transients prevalent in the radio sky. Rapid accumulation of data in recent years has facilitated an understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms of these events. Knowledge gained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Bing Zhang

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

We analyze the three-dimensional shapes and kinematics of the young star cluster population forming in a high-resolution GRIFFIN project simulation of a metal-poor dwarf galaxy starburst. The star clusters, which follow a power-law mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-02 Natalia Lahén , Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson , Bruce Elmegreen , Chia-Yu Hu , Stefanie Walch