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The puzzling mechanism of coherent radio emission remains unknown, but fortunately, repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide a precious opportunity, with extremely bright subpulses created in a clear and vacuum-like pulsar magnetosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Renxin Xu , Weiyang Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients with millisecond duration and extremely high brightness temperature. Very recently, some highly circularly polarized bursts were found in a repeater, FRB 20201124A. The significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances. Only a small fraction of FRBs apparently repeat. Polarization, a fundamental property of electromagnetic signals, often carries critical information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Yi Feng , Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Shi Dai , Ju-Mei Yao

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extra-galactic sources with unknown physical mechanisms. They emit millisecond-duration radio pulses with isotropic equivalent energy of $10^{36}\sim10^{41}$ ergs. This corresponds to a brightness temperature of…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are observed to be highly polarized. Most have high linear polarization but a small fraction show significant circular polarization. We systematically investigate a variety of polarization mechanisms of FRBs within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new kind of extragalactic radio transients. Some of them show repeating behaviors. Recent observations indicate that a few repeating FRBs (e.g., FRB 121102) present time--frequency downward drifting patterns…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio busts (FRBs) can exhibit a wide variety of polarisation properties, not only between sources but also from burst to burst for a same one. In this work, we revisit the polarisation characters of coherent curvature radiation from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Wei-Yang Wang , Jin-Chen Jiang , Kejia Lee , Renxin Xu , Bing Zhang

Coherent curvature radiation as the radiation mechanism for fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been discussed since FRBs were discovered. We study the spectral and polarization properties of repeating FRBs within the framework of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Chen-Hui Niu , Renxin Xu , Bing Zhang

The radiation mechanism of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been extensively studied but still remains elusive. Coherent radiation is identified as a crucial component in the FRB mechanism, with charged bunches also playing a significant role…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-22 Xiang-han Cui , Zheng-wu Wang , Cheng-min Zhang , Chen-hui Niu , Di Li , Jian-wei Zhang , De-hua Wang

Growing observations of temporal, spectral, and polarization properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate that the radio emission of the majority of bursts is likely produced inside the magnetosphere of its central engine, likely a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-01 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are recently discovered mysterious single pulses of radio emission, mostly coming from cosmological distances ($\sim 1$ Gpc). Their short duration, $\sim 1$ ms, and large luminosity evidence coherent emission. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-02 Yuri Lyubarsky

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio bursts originating at cosmological distances. Only three repeating FRBs FRB 20121102A, FRB 20190520B and FRB 20201124A among $\sim$ 60 known repeating FRBs have circular polarization. We observed…

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

Although the physical origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains unknown, magnetars are the most likely candidates. The polarization properties of FRBs offer crucial insights into their origins and radiation mechanisms. Significant circular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Z. Y. Zhao , F. Y. Wang

One of the potential sources of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is a rotating magnetosphere of a compact object, as suggested by the similarities in the polarization properties of FRBs and radio pulsars. Attempts to measure an underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Kaustubh M. Rajwade , Aris Karastergiou

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts. Recent observations of a Galactic FRB suggest that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars, but the origin of cosmological FRBs is still not settled. Here…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of unknown origin. Two possible mechanisms that could generate extremely coherent emission from FRBs invoke neutron star magnetospheres or relativistic shocks far from the…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, coherent, short-duration radio transients of as-yet unknown extragalactic origin. FRBs exhibit a wide variety of spectral, temporal and polarimetric properties, which can unveil clues into their emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 K. Nimmo , J. W. T. Hessels , A. Keimpema , A. M. Archibald , J. M. Cordes , R. Karuppusamy , F. Kirsten , D. Z. Li , B. Marcote , Z. Paragi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond transient astrophysical phenomena and bright at radio frequencies. The emission mechanism, however, remains unsolved yet. One scenario is a coherent emission associated with the magnetar flares and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Masanori Iwamoto , Yosuke Matsumoto , Takanobu Amano , Shuichi Matsukiyo , Masahiro Hoshino

The polarization of fast radio bursts (FRBs), bright astronomical transients, contains crucial information about their environments. We report polarization measurements of five repeating FRBs, the abundant signals of which enable wide-band…

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